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Anonymous
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - 09:35 pm: | |
My daughter is 5 1/2 years old. She starts Kindergarten in the fall, but is now attending pre-K summer school for half days. The past three weeks she has begun to have accidents very frequently. They are usually during an outside activity, or at recess during summer school. She says she is "just having too much fun" to go in to potty. She will just squat and go. At home she will try to make it to go, but if she does have an accident, she won't tell me. She just stays in the dirty underwear and ends up with bad rashes. We've tried positive reinforcement, limiting her "fun" activities she will have the incentive to go to a bathroom, and talked to her teacher to make sure she gets the idea to go. My daughter will still not take the initiative get to the bathroom. I don't want to hold her back from school this fall, she's already been held due to her birthdate. Kids can be very cruel when they find a weakness, I don't want her subject to peer ridicule. She is in two other activities (swimming and t-ball) and she has been ignoring the bathroom etiquette in both. I refuse to shame her and make her wear diapers. She has asked to wear pull-ups "just in case," but I know she will use it as an excuse to go ahead and go in them. I'm ready to cry whenever I discover her dirty underwear on her! What should we do? |
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