Trishs last blog post..Tidbits and Treasures

My general philosophy in child rearing is to avoid extrinsic motivators to manipulate behaviour change in children, and as such disagree with the premise stated in the abstract that “The only question is, how much? What reward do you need to offer to get the behaviour you want?”.

Keith – I know what you mean about public toilets. We needed to use one today and I really didn’t want him to sit on the seat – it was in such a state!

Marita – Children can be so surprising! It was great that there was resources that you could use with Heidi.

Bettina – It is amazing how much difference their can be in children from the same family!

Alison – The first child has a lot of experimentation in our house too! I find I am always finding ways to do things better for next time.

With the exception of our child who wasn’t toilet trained until closer to three, tackling overnight training didn’t come until significantly later and up to a year for one of them and none of them before 3 y.o.

I didn’t attempt to do night training until they would have consecutive nights where they would wake up with dry nappies. It is really the physical ability to hold on all night that I was looking for.

We then just stopped using nappies, had the child use the toilet the last thing before they went to bed and hoped for the best! Success here is so dependent upon the right timing.