Friday, May 30, 2008
Thanks, Sis!
My sister commented on my last post that "new toys" often interested children in independent play. She specified which types of toys were most useful. Lola always likes arts and crafts, but we have plenty of those materials, so we didn't need to add any. However, when my sister suggested "beeping interactive machines," I immediately thought of the Cinderella-themed laptop computer ($30) that obsessed Lola during one visit to Target. I had to conceal its existence from her for several visits thereafter. Today, when she came home from school, I told her that this time when she peed or pooped in the potty, she was going to get a beeping laptop computer from Target, possibly with Cinderella or Dora on it. In record time, we had our first poop take place in the potty (a couple happened at school before, we hear), followed by a respectable pee. I hope you squeamish people are enjoying hearing about infantile greed and bodily functions.--K
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so is the plan to buy her a beeping laptop computer from Target, possibly with Cinderella or Dora on it every time she poops?
if that how they got her to do it at daycare?
Luckily, Lola has never been bribed before, so she really doesn't understand it. That was just an announcement for her of something fun we were going to do later, after she did her business. Honestly, if you can't take parenting lightly every once in a while, you are likely to produce sanctimonious zealots at the end of the process (in one generation or another, that is).--K
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