Nighttime Potty Training
 

Being little rules. I want to be little again. Not for the sake of having wet pants, though.

Nighttime Potty Training
 

Ultimately, more so than you think. But that's the beauty of parenthood. We all approach it in our own way.

Nighttime Potty Training
 

I found that with the Wonk princess taking her to an arcade, letting her get in one of the road racing games, and noting "oops, you're dead" every time she hit the wall or "hey, you just killed someone" every time she hit another car gave her the patience to wait until she was sixteen.

It also taught her to always carry a shovel and plenty of lime in the trunk.

Nighttime Potty Training
 

It's sort of almost but not quite cute that you appear to think this is a revolutionary concept to me.

Nighttime Potty Training
 

I never said that I thought the concept was revolutionary to you. On the other hand, it was clear from your post that you are fighting against it.

I was simply offering my experience having gone through the process twice.With the first one, we tried all knids of things, without success, until one day, the Princess announced that she was a big girl and didn't need pull-ups any more. And she didn't.

With the Monster, we put him in pull-ups and let him know that it was time to start going to the potty instead of relying on a diaper. We got him the Everybody Poops book, and we offered encouragement. He took a little longer than his sister, but he evevtually got the hang of it.

The point is, the second time we didn't get frustrated and didn't try to force the issue. He got to the point where he was ready and that was that.

If it makes you feel better to be a bit smug about things, then mazel tov, but I wasn't being condescending, just a bit facetious.

Christmas means claret.
 

Indeed.

Wait a second -- this is a board for parents? You people actually have been breeding?

Egad. No wonder the Cup is no longer in Newport.

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No, no, sorry if I misread. The thing is, I haven't pushed at all - I'm sort of about that, and my older doesn't generally budge for anyone or fall for tricks, anyway - has always gone her own way, and she usually knows quite best for herself, so I tend to go with it. But she really is getting on what seems like the high side to me of not getting through the night. So I've just been wondering if I've missed something and taken the easy way out for me when there may be something to move her along.

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Maybe SHE'S really a boy and you got her the wrong kind of underpants?

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Like mother, like daughter. We like to call them panties, btw.

And I encourage gender confusion in underwear. I wear an excellent pair of boxer briefs to sleep in, and I often make my lovers wear my panties. No one seems to mind, and I intend to bring up my girls in the same way, so that maybe one day they, too, can meet their virtual Hank and have this very same conversation, over and over.

I believe that Henny Youngman told the first "nono is a dude" joke in the Catskills.
 

Meh. I'd give it a 6. Hank-in-his-prime would have tied it in with a dtb-adjusting-her-son's-underpants reference.

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My 4 year old is night trained and we basically just bit the bullet and prepared for somemessy nights. we hit target or walmart and stocked up on sheets, put the mattress cover on and made sure we took him before he went to bed and also went in and woke him and took him straight to the bathroom when he woke up. We found that he mostly stayed dry during the night. after about 2 weeks, he was fine... I´d say in the last year he has had may 2 or 3 accidents.

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If it's any comfort, with the Monster, he didn't get all the way off the pull-ups until he was five. What finally did it for him was going to day camp. They went swimming every day, and he didn't want all his peers to see him not wearing underwear. Thank God for peer pressure.

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See, I see 5 lurking around the corner - never thought it would go this long. And she's fairly independent, peer-pressure-wise (though maybe a sleepover would do it). I think I made the mistake once of saying you can't go to kindergarten if you're not night-trained, which she then quickly turned into her position that she will do it when it is time to go to kindergarten. Of course, I thought that was going to happen at 4....

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She'll do it when she's ready. And you can get your revenge by not letting her get her ears pierced until she goes to college.

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Plotting revenge, good idea. That will give me something to occupy my mind when I take off that nasty wet pullup every morning.