Thursday, September 24, 2009

The Potty Trained Reena

Two weeks ago I thought "we're never gonna get this. She's gonna wear a diaper until she's 4" Last week she did it and then this week she's a pro and she has had no number 1 or number 2 accident. I'm proud to say Reena's potty trained. Here's what I've learned from potty training my 3 year old. Hopefully I can do this briefly so you all don't get bored reading this.

When I took child development I learned that you don't want to force them to go to the potty but make it fun for them. So we did these things to help her with it
1. Checked out books about potty
2. Timed her and bribed her with what she loves most - chocolate (I wish it could've been fruits but it didn't work as well as chocolate. We used chocolate chips so it looks a lot but only about 5-6 pieces.
3. We promised her 2 prizes and one was to the zoo and the other was to take her to the temple if she could use the potty (She loves the temple. Yeah we have a righteous kid)

The sky was really that blue that day! Look how cute she is! The Seattle Temple is less than 15 minutes from our house!

This is at the Woodland Zoo in Seattle.
Reena had more fun riding on the fake Komodo dragon than seeing the real thing. I don't blame her, those dragons all they do is sleep.

This bear was so cute. He was playing with a backpack in the water.

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