When I discussed and asked my colleagues, Helen mummy; how to go about the process, I am scared to even start. I used to give excuses to myself and told Ivan that we shall train her up after 3 years old. Now Annabelle is 3 years old, passed her birthday and it is definitely is the right time.
We began this training at 1 September 2014. Today marks 24th days of training.
Day#1: Night, I told Annabelle. "Annabelle, you need to tell mummy if you want to "chu-chu" ~ urine." She nodded.
Day #1 (Result): Wet 3 times (12am, 3am, 5++am) on the single bed mattress. I told myself, I cannot get angry. Woke up, change her, change the bedsheets and change the bed protector sheet.
Day #2: Night, I told Annabelle the same message. She nodded.
Day #2 (Result): Wet 3 times (can't recall timing). This time I got a little mad because I woke her up at 12++am to ask if she likes to urine, she say NO then 30 minutes later she wet the bed... I admit that I had reprimanded her.
She told me softly and in the half-sleepy mode:"Mummy, Annabelle must tell mummy if want to urine?" She followed with another statement that I used to tell her "Mummy, Annabelle will try again?"...
My heart felt so bad, and I told myself; "Shirley, you are not going to scold her any more for this training or practice!"
She told me softly and in the half-sleepy mode:"Mummy, Annabelle must tell mummy if want to urine?" She followed with another statement that I used to tell her "Mummy, Annabelle will try again?"...
My heart felt so bad, and I told myself; "Shirley, you are not going to scold her any more for this training or practice!"
Day #3: I went on get some consultation from Helen mummy, she told me some "petua"...
Day #3 (Result): I told Annabelle to urine before her milk, urine again before sleep. That night, she wet twice.
Day #4: I used the "petua", I printed a reward chart for potty training (modified to suit) for her. We told her if tonight she did not wet her bed, tomorrow she has one star.
Day #4 (Result): Wet once still. But we continue to motivate her.
Day#5: I repeated myself like broken radio.
Day #5(Result): She is dry the whole night.. We let her stick her first star in the morning.
Today is Day #24: There are still days that she accidentally did wet her bed, but I had decided not to buy bed sheet protector; she is sleeping with her sister on the queen bed instead of the mattress. She is doing very well and she has received 2 presents from us (Small present from us, a water-colour set, and Pringles Potatoes chips).
When Annabelle read this at 7 years old or older, she will turn around and say to me : 'Mummy, why you record this in the blog and share with people... so shameful..".. (Mummy will just giggle and say, this is mummy's blog, mummy write anything that I felt important ..." :)
So does the reward training chart works? It does :) (Special thanks to my Helen Mummy's help :))
So does the reward training chart works? It does :) (Special thanks to my Helen Mummy's help :))
Here share some photos...
