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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'>I
need some help and I know you guys are the x-perts! Here’s the problem…we
had a couple boy fosters at our house for the last couple months, and instead
of my girls being good influences on them (at least in this one area) they
actually brought back a couple bad habits in my girls. Potty training has
gone the way of the do-do bird in my house. Neither of them was 100% potty
trained, but they were at least getting really, really close with just an
occasional accident here and there (which I mostly blame on my children for
being lazy and not letting them out as they should if DH and I are not home…it’s
a whole other issue) . Now, they seem to have forgotten all that they had
learned, and they are just going in the house without even trying to get our
attention to go outside. I’m not a happy camper, having to come
home and spend my evenings with the steam cleaner and pee pee spots!! So,
here’s my biggest dilemma. I work and so does my husband, the dogs
are crated inside until my kids, ages 15, 11 & 9, get home from school
around 3:00 every afternoon. They let the girls out when they get home
and then they come in or outside depending on the weather and what’s
going on. I know that there are several techniques that work well with
potty training, but I’m concerned that my younger kids won’t be
able to reinforce the training when we’re not there, so it will become
impossible to get a handle on this. If it’s too complicated or
requires too much effort, there is not much I can do to when I am not home to
get a teenage boy to remember to do what I ask. I’d sooner get Diva
to potty-train Sophie! So I wonder if anyone knows a simple or at least
somewhat easy training mechanism that my kids can reinforce with the dogs when
we’re not home, or at least some tips on how to get this under
control? I’m so frustrated I can’t see the forest for the pee
spots…um, I mean trees. Thanks everyone! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Californian FB","serif";
color:#007122'>Jessica L. Sutton<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Californian FB","serif";
color:#007122'>“OMG! ANOTHER PUDDLE!!!!!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” lol</span></b> <o:p></o:p></p>
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