Princess is on a mission!
She are I are pretty outnumbered here in FamilyOf5Land. We have Dadof3, the Prince, and the Knight who are all boys. The cats are boys too, but since they are not using the toilet, they are not getting blamed for this one!
One of the biggest pitfalls of being girls living within a majority of boys is the Toilet Trap, otherwise know as sitting on the pot when the seat has been left up.
Ick!
DadOf3 is usually innocent. My whining and crabbing at him after such incidents has trained him to put the seat down.
The Prince and the Knight are another story.
Now that the Knight is officially potty trained (for the last 6 months - yippee!) it is time for another round of potty training: Put The Seat Down or Experience the Wrath of your Sister!
She came out of the potty the other day after having experienced the icky bottom bath of doom hopping mad. Luckily I caught her first. We talked about it and worked out a strategy.
We decided together that because I normally provide positive reinforcement as opposed to punishment, that we would continue being positive (although she really wanted to wallup somebody!). So we gathered the little boys together and made them a deal. Each and every time that they go potty and then come back to report that they put the seat down, they get a sticker! Stickers are BIG at our house and should do the trick. I am not, however, above raising the stakes.
Because...ick!
I am just doing my part to make the world a better place!
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5 comments:
I'll be waiting to here if it works :)
I had the same problem last night in the middle of the night I sat down to find the lid not there UGH UGH UGH..
Though I think this was my DH because Mr Man wasn't home and Little Man(who also has been potty trained for 6 months now) will not use the potty with out flushing and putting not only the seat back down but he HAS to close the lid.. use to scare me to death I always thought he was going to pinch ummmmmmmmm his little boyhood, as the dropped both the seat and lid at the same time.. Wonder if stickers will work on a grown man LOL.
Go, Princess, go!
I hear ya loud a clear! I have got Josh, Caleb and Brayden lowering the lid but now that Andrew is using the potty I have to keep after him to follow suit. :o)
I hope this works for Princess and you.
ick is right. there is only one boy in this house and he has his own bathroom! hopefully the stickers will do it.
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