When to stop the sticker chart?

[dollybird]

How long have you carried on using a sticker chart when potty training your dc?

Hi there

Sorry I have no advice for you as I was wondering how to start a sticker chart ! and saw your thread.

My daugher is 3 in May and we started in january, she started great and can keep dry pants if I keep on at her, putting her on the potty or toilet but she hates it and now seems to just wet her pants rather than stop playing. I havent used any reward system perhaps thats what I need, has the sticker chart worked for you ? and how is the best way to go about it.
Hope you can help and I hope you get answers to your question in the meantime !!

Hi littlepickle,

The sticker chart definitely helps, esp if you let her choose some stickers. I just did it on the computer and stuck it on the fridge. This is our second go at potty training with dd as, first time round she was much like your dd - took a while to get started, then did well for a bit then got worse and worse. After 4.5 months we gave up, but she was younger than your dd - she is only 2.6 now.

Our sticker chart has four weeks on it and I have decided to stop at the end of the four weeks and give a sticker for each totally dry day and then gradually give up the stickers. Can't go on forever, plus ds is most annoyed that he doesn't get stickers for using the toilet and never did!!

hi thanks for that ! I have found a good sticker chart with a potty train and track on it from an internet site, bought some sticker starts and started today. I planned to give a sticker if she keeps dry by lunchtime and then another if dry by end of day, started off okay, but then later on she wet on the front room floor, even though I had asked her to go on potty 5 minutes before, and she wet upstairs on her bedroom floor between pant changes arrrghhh... I think I have to literally put her on there every thirty minutes regardless. If I do this, it tends to work, but she seems to save it for her pants ! I have tried to be very calm, and use positive rewards and lots of praise when she goes either on the potty or the toilet. I suppose Im slightly worried as she starts nursery in 5 weeks time. I started late as she was in a hip spica plaster all last summer when I would have ordinarily started.

Hi littlepickle. Maybe you need to say to her 'I'm not going to take you to potty anymore - I want you to come and tell me when you need to go'. You'll probably have lots of accidents at first but it should get better when she realises you're not doing it for her. We are having this trouble with DD's nursery as she is still having quite a few accidents there but hardly any at home and I think it's because they keep taking her all the time. At home I don't have to remind her at all as she always tells me. Anyway, is your dd keen about the stickers?

My ds was in a hip spica/broomstick plaster between 13 and 17 months. How is your dd doing now? I hope her hip(s) are ok. DS's are fine at the moment.

Hi there, that sounds like good advice, I may try that tomorrow. Shes fairly keen on the stickers but Ihave to really 'talk it up' and shes not used to the idea yet. My daughter was diagnosed at 2 years old with her left hip being displaced, she had surgery an open reduction followed by the 3 months in a spica and then broomsticks, its a nightmare isnt it !! Im glad it was at least during the summer so we could take her out in her pushchair and sit in the garden etc. We have our 3rd check up in two weeks time, it seems to have worked so far as her very obvious limp seems to be hardly there at all now. I think its an ongoing process the hip development so I just hope we dont have to have any more surgery. She was not picked up at the early checks and it only became an issue when I insisted on a referral from my GP who said she had no problems with her hips !!

We knew about DS's hips from birth - he had a pavlik harness which didn't work. He had a closed reduction, so didn't have to go through too much invasiveness, but was still a nightmare - I was seven months pg at the time and it was the hottest summer ever (2003). He used to get about on all fours and it didn't seem to bother him at all. His next check up is in three weeks actually so fingers crossed for them both! :)

i used the sticker chart for 3 weeks until my son was doing everything in the toilet stop then and use another method long term such as marbles in a jar when it gets to the top he gets a reward say boxer shorts. This really helped my son it made him feel like a big boy rather then buying pants and you can get all designs let the child pick.