Bribery

[lloydslights]

In a local shop recently, the bloke was looking for :

"a lolly to bribe my child for toilet training".

I was stunned.  

Thinking further, what would he bribe a child with to sit still in the dentist's chair?

Is this child a politician in the making?

DEB

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

Jelly beans for a number 1.

Small milky way for a number 2.

What you call bribery, most call reward for effort.

Works......

[fourandsixpants]

Most successful method of getting things done on time, when you want something.

Works extremely well with no side effects.....works on little AND big 'kids'

[lloydslights]

I thought a happy smile on the parents face was sufficient reward.    

To me,  your reward for a good job brings to mind 'entitlement' on a junior scale.

So at what stage/age does the reward cease.  What if the child refuses to go to the toilet without a reward in the offing? Could lead to both physical and mental issues in my opinion.

DEB

[serendipityricho]

A -target on the back of the bowl helps with young blokes.

But when they start school--its try and see who can pee out the window above dunny.

.........Richo.

[k0llectable5]

I agree with siggie, I also agree with you LL.  

A happy smile should be enough, but I dont know if you've ever toilet trained a small tacker but some have a harder time getting their head around it than others. 

There just never seems to be a one size fits all solution.

[boris1gary]

bribery is usually an incentive/reward for bad behaviour, an incentive for good behaviour is different, in my opinion anyway.    

[channys_mum]

First child then Deb 

We all try to be pc for the first child. After that we go with what works. It was smarties from 2nd child on for me 

[green.fields]

We have used reward charts for the grandies, x amount of  stickers gets them a dip in the special goodie box. It works and sometimes you just have to resort to these types of things, Mummy's and others smiles just don't cut it at times.

[lloydslights]

Oh Richo you brought back memories of my 2 blokes trying to outdo each other with the height limit.........till I told them that I would treat them like the cat and rub their nose in it.

Yes, I have "trained" 3.  But those were the  days, when life was slower for mums.  

No racing around waking them early and getting them to kindies on her way to her own employment elsewhere or to shop for disposables on the raceway back for pick up time.

No, we sat them down on their potty chair while we rinsed and washed cloth nappies or while we went to the loo ourselves as examples of action.

It wasn't an "event" to be rewarded.

DEB