Toddler peeing on the floor for attention :(

[Lut]

Caz,
our DD has been doing this for months now!
I'm at breaking point to be perfectly honest.
She is 3.5!!!
Very bright and extremely aware of EVERYTHING, but she does this TO ME!
She goes to 3 yo kinder 3 days a week (full days), and nothing!
Come home and she obviously saves it for me.
We tried everything. Reward, talking, punishing, retraining... ah...
When I ask her to go to the toilet, she refuses.
If we force her, she will go and do it on the floor beside the toilet! :eek:

So, we figure a child who has learnt to read at such an early age, should be aware of what she is doing (and obviously is), then she is also old enough to clean her own mess.
We won't clean up her mess... DH gives her the cleaning stuff and sets her to work. And until it's spotless, she has to clean it. Does that border on child slavery??

But we've run out of alternatives!
So I am no help to you, other than to say, you are not alone.

[cazoraz]

So, we figure a child who has learnt to read at such an early age, should be aware of what she is doing (and obviously is), then she is also old enough to clean her own mess.
We won't clean up her mess... DH gives her the cleaning stuff and sets her to work. And until it's spotless, she has to clean it. Does that border on child slavery??

Ooh good idea! She can clean up her own mess and see how she likes it!

Actually, she hasnt had an accident in the last 2days since I stopped paying any attention to it and just dealing iwth it matter-of-factually showing no emotion whatsoever. So fingers crossed!