We (and when I say “we”, I mean “Becky”) have been doing a pretty good job of encouraging CJ to use the toilet, regularly putting her on the potty. On the weekends, when she’s with us the whole day, we have her on the potty before and after every meal and several times in between. I swear, she must have a pea-sized bladder.
While CJ is generally fairly amenable to the task, on occasion she resists. One of my more effective ways of getting her to sit on the potty is to take one of her books, sit next to the potty, and start reading silently to myself. Eventually, she comes over and asks me to read to her, and I’ll have her sit on the potty while I read. All in all, not bad.
So, of course, now that CJ is into baby dolls, she reads to her dolls as they sit on the potty.
Lesson: Don’t underestimate the power of modeling.
