Yes I think you have my DD2!! I have to bribe her to go to bed (and stay there!)
She actually told me she likes me changing her nappies After that we took away the potty and the toilet seat and stopped making any reference to the potty/TT at all. Totally ignored it. So yesterday she asked to wee on the potty, she did and today she did 2 wees. Maybe try the reverse psychology approach - if she thinks you don't care about it she might do it?
Mine does not respond to bribery, which is very very annoying! Not even a freddo frog or a sticker will get her to use the potty. Though she is now telling me after she has done a wee, so hopefully we will get there soon.
Day sleeps are a thing of the past unfortunately, but at least she goes to bed at night ok.
I hope it is possible for a child to grow and be healthy on a diet of olives, bread and butter, sausages, chicken nuggets, and bananas. Saves on the grocery bill though.
DD2 wouldn't be bribed to use the potty either - she just didn't care enough about anything.
Bed is different though I can bribe her with the threat of not going to dancing/swimming/Nannas/friends place etc the next day - she will respond to that.
Food is a big issue here too. Apples, bananas, cheese and baked beans. Amazing what you can hide in baked beans! Of course she loves lollies, chips etc, and would live on them if I let her.
dsd was the same at that age, although she was tt already by then, the not eating or sleeping was so frustrating. she was with us 3 days and 2 nights a week and they were ever so frustrating. Most weekends she wouldnt eat the entire time she was with us, every few weekends or so we could manage to get her to eat 'snackies' (cheese, bikkies, dip, nuts - a plate of nibblies) but other than this she just didnt eat. she did it at her mums as well, just not to the same extreme.
Bed time was screaming, crying, carrying on for hours or she would just stick her fingers down her throat and throw up (what she was throwing up we still havent worked out as there was never any food in her) so i had to change the bed and her, get the washing started etc etc and then she would proceed with the tantys. she did grow out of the not eating at 5, and bed became manageable at around 4.
Hugs i do so feel your pain
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After that we took away the potty and the toilet seat and stopped making any reference to the potty/TT at all. Totally ignored it. So yesterday she asked to wee on the potty, she did and today she did 2 wees. Maybe try the reverse psychology approach - if she thinks you don't care about it she might do it?
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