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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sigh. Yeah. In the end we cleaned it up together and did a time out so I could calm down. I was pretty upset. What I hate most is I kind of feel like my mood was the consequence, but isn’t that kind of a natural consequence? I explained that I love them but pee on the floor on purpose really upsets me because I love our house and it’s hard to clean up. I think they get it but just don’t really care if I’m upset.

I decided that next time, the consequence is the rugs have to go away for cleaning.

The handholding/baby thing sounds good but it also sounds like mostly a punishment for me if you know what I’m saying. [/quote]

Handholding PP here.  Yeah it’s very much a pain for the adult but fortunately it works pretty quickly to get my kid to start listening again.  But it doesn’t have to be that specifically.  It can be things like: every time you need to go to the bathroom or need to do anything that prevents you from watching them they have to stop playing and wait somewhere pee can’t damage the floor (eg crib, another bathroom, etc).  Explain that this is why and make the area child safe but also somewhere they can’t get out of on their own.  After they get fed up with this explain that if they promise to only pee in the potty and never on the floor you’ll let them play unsupervised again.  Assuming they do okay with that, praise!  I think for me the key is to (a) physically prevent the behavior (the handholding came up when my kid wasn’t listening to verbal requests to come back when we were out walking for example), (b) tie the behavior to a somewhat dull/annoying experience, and (c) create a situation that allows copious praise of not doing the behavior.[/quote]

Thank you, this makes a lot of sense. [/quote]

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