If you know Daniel then you know that he doesn't do anything until he wants to and he doesn't do it until he is confident that he can do it. When he learned to walk he didn't let go of anything to try to walk until he walked across the living room. It was like he didn't want to walk until he could do it without falling down.
Potty training was no different. We have tried off and on for the last 15 months and we have tried everything. We tried the 3 day method, we tried pull ups, we tried charts, music, videos and books. Nothing worked long term.
I finally decided it was time and got rid of pull-ups and put him in underwear. I told him that we had a special chart for each time he went in the potty and he picked out 2 treats; one for going pee and the other for going poop. We also decided we were tired of cleaning out the little potty so we got him a seat for the real toilet which he picked out and was excited to use!
After a week he was only wearing underwear and after 2 weeks he hadn't had an accident! He picked it up so fast and even does a great job when we go out :)
We also promised him that when he was going in the potty and had filled up his sticker charts (he had 3) that we would go to the store and he could pick out a toy. He searched the store but picked out a soccer ball :)
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