Rewards for Potty training

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Did you use rewards for Potty training?

I know certain potty training books say to not offer a sticker/incentive etc and we have avoided them so far other an verbal praise, but I am fed up of cleaning up wee from the floor.

DC is stubborn and currently refusing to engage at home (100% dry at nursery Mon-Friday all day).He knows when he needs a wee and on the odd time I've offered him a haribo to wee on the potty as opposed to the floor, I've never seen him move so quick.

If you went down the rewards route - did it work? How did you get yourself out of it again? ( I don't want to be giving stickers by the time he is 5).

How old is he and how long have you been doing it?

We didn’t do rewards. We tried not to make it emotional at all and did casual praise for it going well and no reaction to accidents. It was her idea to start with, we just left a potty out and said to use it when she wanted to.

We did a reward chart for the first week, worked brilliantly and she got so excited putting a sticker on it. Once she got it she forgot all about the chart and hasn't used it since (three weeks in now).

I think since you know DC can do it at nursery, rewards would be ok to incentivise them. It can just backfire a bit if they get despondent when they ‘fail’.

He is just over 2.5 (31 nearly 32 months) and we've been at this 3 months or so.

We did rewards in the form of milky buttons! Worked almost immediately and we easily stopped by just telling her the buttons were all gone but she could have a sticker instead. She took the sticker but because she doesn't care for them much she soon stopped asking.

We did a chocolate raisin every time he went in the potty. When she had got the hang of it we changed it to a chocolate raisin at the end of every day she didn’t have an accident. When this became every day we phased it out.

We did rewards for the first week or so, maybe less? Started with a small chocolate, possibly a chocolate button but I can't remember exactly, and then gradually phased it out.
The biggest thing that helped us was being on holiday. Just a change of scenery for a few days and she cracked it after about a month of mishaps. Never had an accident since.

We used a chocolate button as a reward after trying sticker charts etc, Dd is and always has been food motivated so it worked instantly then after a few days we "ran out" of buttons and she forgot all about them but carried on with using the potty so it definitely worked for us.

Didn’t on the first attempt but did on the second attempt 6 months later (at 2 years 3 months).

Stickers for wees (a plainer type for if she sat on the loo and tried but didn’t go, and a sparkly one for if she actually weed) and chocolate buttons for poos.

Took about 4 days and we were out and about with minimal accidents, and totally accident-free within about 10 days.

Yep, used magic stars for potty training.

Initially we sat him on the potty every 30 mins and gave a chocolate star, then every 45 minutes, then every hour. At an hour we phased the treat down to when he had a pee or a poo then down to being dry and clean at the end of the day.

He was potty trained after three days and dry over night after two weeks*

*Disclaimer he was clearly totally ready to be hormonally, just saying the bribes didn't hurt him.

A chocolate button worked wonders for us.