Please. Help me. This has to end.<\/p>\n
Its insanity.<\/p>\n
I can’t seem to find a method that works to get Bridget to stop pooping her pants. She is averaging once a day. She lies to me about it, and she tries to hide it. When I ask her point blank if she needs to use the potty she’ll say no. . . 5 minutes later she’s had an accident.<\/p>\n
Taking away PEZ dispensers hasn’t worked.<\/p>\n
Taking away the privilege of playing with friends hasn’t worked.<\/p>\n
Dave and I spent some time talking last night about all the possible reasons that she might be regressing so much. The best guess we have is that Dave isn’t around as much with his new school schedule. Changes like that are tough on kids. And despite the fact that he tries to spend as much time with her as he can when he’s home, it doesn’t compare to how much time and attention she got before he started summer school. We are guessing that the accidents are a method of getting more attention from daddy, even if it is negative attention. We spent some time last night trying to convince her that accidents make us sad, and that we are so much happier when she uses the potty. Hopefully that helps.<\/p>\n
Our latest new attempt is to take away whichever toy she is playing with when she has an accident. We took her money away last night. And she’s hasn’t had her PEZ dispensers since last Thursday… though she asks for them back at least once a day.
\nDoes anyone else have any suggestions? Have you guys gone through this with your kids??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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