{"id":610,"date":"2010-07-20T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plannerperfect.com\/2010\/07\/20\/potty-training\/"},"modified":"2010-07-20T01:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T01:04:00","slug":"potty-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plannerperfect.com\/?p=610","title":{"rendered":"potty training"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What do I do for potty training? I simply wait until they’re ready. I never use potty chairs and I don’t read potty books. That is way too mainstream. The potty chairs, the crying, the accidents, who needs the stress? When I see that they are ready, sometimes it takes a little prodding, and when they ask…we try it out. I have bribed one of my sons before because he would go in his pants. It was a horrible span of about 6 months! After I bribed him with a bike if he went in the toilet, he took the bait; only to go right in his pants no sooner than we got home with bike in hand.<\/p>\n

Un-schooling has made me think, re-think and ask myself why I do what I do. Bribing doesn’t work, rewards are merely incentives that don’t work for the long haul (more on this topic later), and honestly, when I’ve waited until their timing–everyone’s happy! 3 years-old has been about the time when all of mine (give or take a couple months) have ended up being potty trained. My advice from a mom who’s potty trained quite a few? Relax! There is enough stress raising little ones, they don’t need the stress and either do you. Let them tell you<\/i> when they’re ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What do I do for potty training? I simply wait until they’re ready. I never use potty chairs and I don’t read potty books. That is way too mainstream. The potty chairs, the crying, the accidents, who needs the stress? When I see that they are ready, sometimes it takes a little prodding, and when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[925],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-potty-training","entry","has-post-thumbnail","one-third"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plannerperfect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plannerperfect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plannerperfect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plannerperfect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plannerperfect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plannerperfect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plannerperfect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plannerperfect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plannerperfect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}