Author: u/Longjumping_Sea_8753
Post: Asking because I know that kids get distracted playing and the like, often with screens. I've approached it often with reminding the kid I'm training "Let's take a break to go potty." If they say no and really push back, I'll say "Fine, but listen to your body and remember to go potty" and then if they have an accident, the toy/tablet/park trip goes away. You didn't want to take a break, so now it's going to become a bigger inconvenience. Especially as we need to go home to shower and clean up.
I had somebody tell me that this was traumatic to the kid. I'm failing to see how it is. If I don't teach the kid that there's genuine consequences to not listening to their body (losing the toy/tablet time/park time, none of which are basic human rights), how will they learn? They just go "oops you had an accident," clean it up for the kid, and wonder why their kid is still having accidents and can't remember to take a break while playing.
I feel like it would be traumatic if this kid had an accident and lost all their toys or something, but no, it's just whatever was so distracting that they couldn't get to the bathroom for the day. I'm struggling to see how it's trauma. Like, trauma was when my sister had our grandparents and relatives all laugh and my sister and I and call us babies when we had accidents. Not them taking us home from the park early.
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