Toddler behaviour- Protest wees

[LolaLollypop]

Looking for behavioural advice for my 2.5 year old DD. She was pretty much potty trained before this bloody coronavirus! Nursery were great in encouraging her and she likes to copy her friends who go to the toilet there.

This regression has come through her new baby brother born mid Feb and also being at home with us every day. A lot of my time is taken up with my newborn. My husband is working full time so she's definitely bored and missing attention.

The most frustrating thing is the protest wees. When she's misbehaving and being told off, she'll wee herself. Either in front of us or in the naughty corner! She smirks as she's found out which is infuriating. I sometimes can't believe a 2 year old can have that thought process!

Any ideas how we can improve her behaviour in these difficult times and also stop her from weeing when she's angry?

Try to give her some one on one attention. She is feeling insecure. The weeing purposely in front of you is for attention.

Is she really smirking, or is that your imagination?

I would also make her clean everything up after she wees (of course you will have to redo her "work") - wash the floor, remove her underwear, put on new underwear.

It's really hard when I have a 1 month old too. I'm BF and he has colic so he's very clingy to me.

I just sat down with her to play and asked several times if she needed a wee. She said no, I said if she did it in her pants we wouldn't play anymore. 2min later she does a wee in her pants! So frustrating.

I tried this time to make her take her own soiled knickers off. My poor sofa is going to feel of urine after all this!

Currently going through this with my 3 year old! So frustrating. Asking him if he needs a wee as he would hold his self or dance around he will be admin he doesn't need a wee then wet hisself.

I've gone back to basics and doing bottom half naked and potty in the living room so far no accidents but its only been 2 days.

@LolaLollypop I know it is difficult. There is 14 months between our oldest and our middle child, 2 1/2 years between the middle and the youngest. I remember our oldest coming for cuddles when her brother arrived, something she never did before then.

Can you give her cuddles? Ask her to help with the baby? (maybe hold his blanket, or tape part of his diaper on a change?)

I think I would put her back in diapers and tell her since she is weeing all over the furniture, she's not a big girl, and has to wear diapars again. I'd probably put her in cloth diapers with rubber pants, or just rubber pants over panties. They are very uncomfortable when wet. Of course, you can wait five minutes or so after she wets them to change.

@FireUnicorn, boys are harder to potty train, I think because when they have to go, it's immediate. At least, that's my experience.

Can you pick anything good going on to praise her for that differentiates her from the baby? And involve her with the baby - so you're going to change his nappy then praise her for being a helpful big sister by going to get a fresh nappy. Ask her to sing him a song, one from nursery with the hand actions to keep him happy (while you change the nappy) sing along with her perhaps and praise her by saying how clever she is for remembering it, etc. If you can make it more about her than about him. It's hard to remember to do it, but the more you praise the good stuff (and ignore the bad unless dangerous) the better it gets.