Potty Training Reward System

we do raisins with my 25 month old and a high five she loves it!!!

She's still pretty young and frankly may not get the whole reward system thing quite yet. But then, you know her better. I would think she might not understand a chart but would understand praise, etc. Delayed gratification might not work either due to her age, but again, you will know better than I.

We avoided the whole rewards thing by waiting a bit with my son. I let him take the lead on it and, as a result, it's been almost entirely his idea. We bought him a potty book (complete with flushing noise) and a seat that you put on your toilet seat when he turned two. He also was intrigued watching his one older friend use the potty and that, I think, motivated him more than anything. Then one week (about a month ago), we put him in underpants and worked with him getting to the toilet in time, etc. We really didn't push him but did praise him when he did things in the toilet. It involved a lot of trips to the potty. There were a few accidents and after a few days, we'd let him venture out in public wearning underpants. We'd make a big deal about how he was wearing big boy pants, etc.

It worked for my son, but then, he's 2 1/2. Also, I think another part of the equation (and the most important) is that he was ready to potty learn. I don't think it can be forced. In his peer group right now, there's only one other that's potty trained and he's older.

Don't know if she's into Chuck E. Cheese but they have a potty reward system at their website. For our second daughter we did one M&M for everytime she went potty. We started out with an M&M for every time she went then we weened it down to just when she went poopy in the potty and then slowly there was no longer a need for rewards. My first needed no incentive, she just did it. We are now about to embarke on the lovely journey of potty training our first son... :)

Have fun with potty training it should be a wonderful experience with or without a reward system. My little one was always excited about the potty since she was 1 1/2 years old.
She was excited when she knew that it made me happy and so we made up a potty song that we both danced to as she rang the bell on the potty seat once she finished. I thought it was successful to allow her to push the button each time and dance around. She is 2 1/2 now and she still enjoys pushing the button and dancing, but she uses the big potty and her reward is that she gets to flush the big potty.

My little guy was facinated with coins at that time so we would reward him with coins that he would put into a piggy bank on the back of the toilet. After a few months, we took him to the bank to cash it in and then to the store to pick out a toy.