Ten Trips to Potty When Accident - What does it mean?

Question from a parent:

I am not sure I understand the 9 times....I get it by meaning that Patty had an accident so now she needs to practice 9 times but what is she practicing and in what time span?

Answer:

With the Potty Training in One Day method, not only do practice runs build muscle memory, but they are a consequence for undesired behavior of wetting underwear.

So basically, after you clean up i.e. change doll or child into clean underwear - you make them run to the potty from different parts of the house to simulate what they would do if they had to go potty....so do the first couple of runs from where she had the accident, but then move out to different parts of the house - i.e. if Patty was watching TV and had to potty what would she do? She would run to the potty - pull her pants down and go potty.

Basically running to the potty - pulling pants down - sitting on the potty and then getting up and pulling the pants back up...takes on a few seconds...the whole 9-10 practice runs would take less than 5 mins if your child is cooperative.

If you child is having tantrums, let them finish the tantrum and then finish the left over runs. I hope this make sense - if not let me know.

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