Making a Potty Training Reward Chart

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"Hi, my name is Veronica Baragas with my wigglesandgiggles.com, and I'd like to share with you how to make a potty training reward chart. Now you can do this anyway possible, this is just a basic concept of what I would kind of setup, you can do it daily, weekly or monthly, but I wouldn't recommend it, it's a little bit more far fetched. So what I started with is, we'll do it week by week, and I just kind of charted out a Monday through Sunday type of chart, and I broke it into three times a day, so they have up to three times during the day to get a reward. Now I do initial sticker rewards, or you can do like check marks, or whatever it is, I do initial and then the big reward is at the end of the week if they've hit like their quota. So what I would do is in the morning and kind of do when they woke up were they able to go into potty in the morning and whatnot, and if they were then kind of do a sticker or a check mark here under Monday morning, during the day, around lunch time, things like that. So we do A.M, mid-day, and P.M. rewards, so those are the three times throughout the day that they're able to get a reward. Doesn't say that, of course they're going to go potty maybe throughout those days, now those maybe you can get like a high-five or a "really good job", but we're going to kind of categorize like for the morning, did they go potty most of the time during the morning, did they go mid-day without an accident, did they go P.M. without an accident. So those are the kind of rewards that I would give if they went without an accident, so kind of, little by little, and then add them up by the day, and let them know at the end of the day, "ooh, you we're able to accomplish all day without going for a accident", so kind of just make it like that for everyday, kind of go through the day with them and let them know they have morning time to get a reward, mid-day to get a reward and the evenings. Now if a child goes to childcare and you're not able to do the mid-day rewards, maybe you can kind of get with your caregiver and see if maybe they'll do the mid-day rewards to see how they did at school, and you can all kind of come together in team work. So this is just pretty simple, so lets say they got a reward here, here and here, all three days, so at the end of the week you can kind of tally up and say if they went every day and only had a mess up only once a day, then they get a special dinner or a special snack or a special something, nothing too extravagant, but something just a little rewarding that they would like. So this is a simple chart, and like I said, it's up to you how you do it, but this is what I would recommend."