This is the chart we used (we have created a new one) when we began potty training -- one sticker for every successful mission on the potty. We have a sticker chart for when we (and when I say we, I mean the toddler) brush our teeth nicely -- meaning without throwing some sort of fit. We have the 'please' chart -- one sticker for everytime the toddler says please without having to be asked.I know -- charts, charts, charts! Part of this is killing me, I mean -- shouldn't my daughter just know how to act respectfully? Shouldn't she just realized that it makes mommy and daddy mad and frustrated when she takes like 20 minutes to finally agree to brush her teeth? Shouldn't she just feel rewarded by going on the potty and not in a diaper?
No -- she doesn't get all of that. Sometimes I feel like I am bribbing my daughter too much, leading her down a path where she demands rewards for doing every little thing. But then, I hear her saying "please" quite often these days and she doesn't ask for a sticker (and I don't offer, unless she asks). She goes potty without a sticker sometimes -- even though she knows that when she fills the chart she gets a new book.
It's constant battle of bribbery and negotiating around here at our house, and it's starting to wear me down!
Please, someone tell me parenting gets easier? PLEASE someone tell me that I'm not going insane and I will make it out of this phase soon!!
2 comments:
I have no idea if it gets easier....but I do know we just need to hang in there.
hugs!
As children get older, I've found that the problems don't go away...they get "different". As Corey says..."hang in there"
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