Potty Training - Regression

[arianwe]

So my 3 year old Daughter was fully potty trained until I had another baby 4 months ago.

She then regressed, as they do, and would only use the potty when she needed a poo.

I guess with lockdown and a new child, we just let it slip and she was in nappies all the time.

She is now back in nursery and we have tried to get back on the potty training. She is really hit and miss with the wee's. Some days she is brilliant and makes a real effort, and other days it seems like she has never been potty trained in her life and wee's on the floor all day. She is very switched on, and it seems like she is intentionally doing her wee's on the floor to get attention. She will refuse to sit on the potty literally 2 minutes before she wee's all over the floor. She wee'd all over nursery last week and proudly came out to tell me all of the items she had ruined.

I have no idea where to begin with trying to sort this out?! Do I just leave her a few weeks and try again, try a reward chart, don't give attention when she wee's on the floor??

Is there anything she is really keen on and wouldn’t want to ruin? E.g. paw patrol/dinosaur/Frozen knickers? She could have those first thing, but if she wets them she goes straight into boring plain knickers for the rest of the day? Perhaps let her choose a couple of nice pairs of trousers as well with the same system? Gives her some motivation without you making a fuss either way (so not accidentally rewarding deliberate wetting with attention).

I’m not sure leaving it a few weeks is necessary. If she’s done it before she’s developmentally ready for it, this is just a behavioural glitch.

Give it time. It’s a challenging thing for a 3 year old to go through lockdown in addition to a new sibling.