This child is just 4.
Does not wear nappies during the day or night. But when they want to pee/poo, they ask firmly for a nappy, or go and find one and bring it along to parent. Child ALWAYS pees/poos standing up at present.
Parent has offered the loo/potty intermittently, and does plenty of talking about how "I go in the loo... Granny goes in the loo... your friend Tabitha goes in the loo... Nathan who you completely hero worship goes in the loo..."
Idea of child going in the loo/potty is met with complete screaming abdabs.
Knickers, either just like parental ones, or with favourite cartoon characters are rejected with disgust.
We want to avoid bribery. We certainly don't want to force child to sit on loo/potty (even assuming we could do the necessary gymnastics)
Does anyone have any splendid ideas not involving bribery or forcing? It's certainly a psychological barrier rather than a physiological one.
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ideas for moving a reluctant child from nappies to loo?
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namechangetastic · 01/07/2008 19:47
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