My mom has potty trained both Ella and Anders. She comes to visit for a week and focuses in and gets the job done. Ella was amazingly easy and Anders (once he was ready) was a champ. Now here comes kiddo number 3. Her personality is generally a bit stubborn (or determined as the nice teachers at Challenger use) and she has been a challenge. She will go for a couple of days with no accidents and then wake up one morning and with her cute little accent announce "today I am not going to use the potty, just diapers, then tomorrow I will use the potty and get panties and M&Ms." And she does just that - nothing will change her mind. Now enter my mom. She is always ready for a challenge and seems to be succeeding with Sara. She is ever positive and has started using snack size Milky Way bars. She has upped it from M&Ms to Milky Way bars.
My management and parenting style has always been to step aside when you know there is someone else who can do the job better than you can - that we all have strengths and weaknesses and a good leader is someone who is able to quickly learn those things about others and then step aside and let them go for it. Don't get me wrong I am very involved with the helping on and off of the potty, washing hands, etc but the main kudos has to go to my mom. The match has been set - I'm just thankful to coach this one from the sidelines.
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