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[quote=Anonymous]It will not be harder when she is older. It will be easier.

Don't wake her up to pee. This just disrupts sleep and makes her reliant on you waking her. Why?

Require her to sit on the potty right before bed and also first thing in the morning. Bribe if necessary. Definitely don't let her sit around in a wet diaper, that's a non-negotiable. My DD also never wanted to take off her wet diaper in the morning, I think it's because taking it off makes you feel cold at first. I would take it off and then put her in the bathtub and do a little sponge bath with warm water, then dry her off and have underwear/pants ready to go, to make that transition easier.

If they resist, you just have to pull out your parenting tools for dealing with toddler resistance. Kids are different so I won't tell you exactly what to do. My kid was very resistant to being physically guided to something, she'd scream and cry if I tried just walking her to the potty or picking her up and putting her on it. But she was very responsive being told she had to sit on the potty before doing something she wanted to do (read books in bed, eat breakfast, etc.) plus I have a certain number of go-to bribes for situations like this where I just need her to do something quick and then it's over -- a small piece of chocolate, watching Baby Shark on my phone. Whatever it took to reinforce the idea that we use the potty before bed and upon waking no matter what, even if we don't think we need to go. Same with potty visits before a long car ride or a trip to the park. Eventually she stopped resisting and initiated this on her own.

Then one day she'll just be dray every morning and you can ditch the diapers. It didn't happen for my DD until she was almost 5. It's really not a big deal.[/quote]

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