Did you use treats?

[MumtoA]

Hi all,

I plan to start TT my DD tomorrow and was just curious, did many of you use treats/rewards to encourage training?? Not as bribery as such, more just a congrats you did a poo/wee on the toilet.

Thoughts?

[Aligater]

Yes with DD1 but it didnt work and DD2 has decided on her own she wants to be a big girl 2 weeks and no acidents

[Tinks]

I tried to but it didn't work.

[AliBaby]

No we just used plenty of praise. We used to tell DD that she was a big girl doing her wees like child a or child b (kids who were a bit older than her who she looked up to and were her friends. She liked that and would often tell us she was a big girl like those children when she did a wee or poo on the toilet.
Good luck!

[Lily Dust]

Nup. She was really young and we just used loads of positive reinforcement, deep breaths and never showed any anger (even if it was there!) or critisism.

Good luck with it

[Jellyfish]

We used stickers and then for 10 stickers we went and bought new undies. We then were having a little trouble with getting that first poo so she got a colouring book to use on the potty because we just wanted to catch that first one to get her clued into the process. Worked here, no accidents but she was over 3 at the time so I think it depends.

[Rowellen]

DS's treat was wearing his "big boy" undies. He was so proud to be wearing them. He caught on really quick so we had very few accidents. We had a few no 2 accidents though so the first two times he did his no 2's on the toilet, we gave him matchbox cars. But as a reward, not a bribe. As in, we didn't tell him beforehand that he would get one. I was so happy he did it, I gave him a special treat. We just gave heaps of praise and encouragement mostly.

[Maruschke]

Stickers and big girl undies... we try to never use food as a reward because I think it sets a bad attitude towards food.

[Jellyfish]

The other thing we did was encourage her to ask whenever we were out and reassure her we would always find her a toilet no matter what. And even if we had all just strapped into the car to head home and she asked we would get everyone out and dash through the shops to a toilet... and even if she did nothing once we got there we would praise her for asking lol. She usually asks once no matter where we are just to check out the new toilet but I'm okay with that, I think it reassures her to have a trial run to the toilet so she knows we can get there in time, kids can have a bit of anxiety surrounding making it in time when they are in an unfamiliar setting.

[HotI]

Not planning on using treats (but always reserve the right to change my mind). I have got some sheets with DD's alphabet, and colours and numbers etc that she likes playing with and have put them up on the wall in the toilet so we have somethng to amuse ourselves with, and to make it a funky place to go.

[Heaven]

I did at the start but then regretted it because she only went to the toilet because she wanted a treat. So I stopped it and actually had much more success