Sooooo, my girls still wear diapers to bed.
Yep, they do. Please, no lectures about how old they are or bragging about your diaper-less babes.We have been offering incentives {Halloween candy} if the girls {5 & 3.5} keep their diaper dry all night and if they do this 3 nights in a row, we'll let them Try wearing panties to bed. I mean really, in a life with lots of littles, some "milestones" like a mamma/daddy changing everyone's sheets in the middle of the night just aren't worth it. It'll come.
The incentives have been working!!!! 😀 Both girls have kept them dry and receiving candy in the morning {Before Breakfast- insert shock and awe or discussed with my parenting}. Neither have made it 3 nights in a Row yet but are doing great.
Tonight, Mags let us in on how they've accomplished this:
- After we tuck them in to bed {diapered}, they get up and get new diapers out of the drawer.
- They then make these new diapers into "pull-ups" {forming them & attaching the tabs}.
- Then putting them on over the ones we already put on them.
- In the mornings, they throw away the wet ones and bring the dry ones in exchange for Candy.
GENIUS!!!!
I'm pretty sure they helped even their little brother {2.5} hose us one morning. So thoughtful, they knew he desperately wanted chocolate as well.
#parentingfail #outsmarted #raisinghonestkids
The outcome?
1. No one got beat because they told the truth.
2. In an attempt to buy less diapers, we've now been using double the diapers for nearly a week now.
3. We have no candy for trick-or-treaters {not all the fault of the lil geniuses}
Oh my gosh this is too funny! Our six year old [bday nov 1] just stopped wearing diapers at night last week, The 3 year old is still wearing them full time. My 7 year old was 4 and went cold turkey on his bday. My other three [whom are adopted } came potty trained. I am a firm believer kids will do it when there ready:)
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Thank you so much for the encouragement on the nighttime potty training. I LOVE how you put that, “came potty trained”. We could only with that for all our blessings. Maybe in the future when we adopt we can be so lucky 😉