Pull-ups or a pony?

Training for making tough decisions starts young.  Brenda laughed her head off telling me this story -- she shared it with our daughter Emily who put it on her blog (we're the 'mom and dad' in the story) :

We pretty much have the pee pee in the potty thing down pat. But now my big dilemma revolves around the fact that the twins absolutely will not poopy in the potty. They know when its coming, they don’t have accidents in their big girl panties, they simply ask for a pull-up when its time to go.  As they are visiting mom and dad in Charlotte, mom sweetly tempted Ava Grace “Ok, Gracie...if you poo poo in the potty, you can have a piece of candy and we’ll go see the ponies!" to which Ava very deliberately responds “I don’t want candy and I don’t want a pony. I want my pull- up.” What could be better than a pony?!  I just don't know what to do next.

Comments

[Teri Delgado]

We too shared the same challenge with our daughter and my brilliant husband figured a way to break her fear. We were living in Florida at the time and had been talking about going to SeaWorld. He simply told her Shamu would not allow her to come see him until she went poopoo in the potty. So she tried it because she really wanted to see Shamu. As soon as she did, she said "I did it!!! Will you tell Shamu?" Each subsequent poopoo ended up the same with a discussion of how Shamu likes when you go on the potty and not in a diaper. We even made phone calls to Shamu to tell him the good news! We are proud of our daughter and glad that we found something that worked!