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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I got good advice on this board.  Be more specific about the problems and people here can help you.  For strong willed kids you need a reward and they have to lose the reward the first couple times (no parent caving because of crying.)[/quote]

Didn't work for my strong willed kids-- she would simply decide she did not care about the reward. No matter what it was-- candy, toys, you name it.

What did work: literally spending hours a day with her in the bathroom (with books, toys, screens whatever) for a week until she was consistently using the potty when she needed to or when I prompted her to go. We were up against the clock because school was starting in a month and nothing else (and we tried it all) would work. It was a painful, miserable week for which I had to take work off and there were lots of tears (hers, and then later when she went to bed and I debriefed my day with my DH, mine). But she was potty trained by Day 1 of preschool, and only had a handful of accidents that year.

Some kids are really hard to potty train.[/quote]

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