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[quote=Anonymous]With my oldest kid, it took a full month. We only did a few days of no bottoms, and then started putting him in clothes that were easy to take off and just putting him on the potty every hour or so.  We tried all the rewards (stickers, treats, etc.), and I gave him all the juice, and we read all the books and watched all the shows.  He would routinely sit on the potty for 30 minutes watching Thomas or whatever.  He did not have a single success for the month.  I stayed pretty matter-of-fact about it, just cleaning up every accident.

Finally, one morning, he got it.  He sat on the potty and peed, and it was like he understood.  He peed on the potty numerous times the rest of the day, and he had almost no accidents ever again.

In his case, it was really that he just didn't get the mechanics.  It wasn't about control or anxiety or anything else.  He just couldn't figure out how to do it, and once he did, he repeated his new skill over and over again.

He was almost exactly 2.5, and I persisted because I was in this magical phase where I was working from home for just a few months with a babysitter coming over in the mornings who was willing to help with the potty training, and I had a new baby on the way.  Basically, we had to figure it out.  Knowing how it turned out, I'm glad I stuck with it, but I'm sure I would totally regret it if it had made my kid anxious or resentful or anything else.

Anyway, I started and finished a similar thread on here about it, so I'll see if I can find it.[/quote]

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