Hard lessons learned

I'm not feeling like a very nice mommy right now, but I think it helped get the point across.

My 6 1/2 year old had a daytime accident.  Not a full on accident, but enough that his pants were too wet.  Yes they are usually far and few between, but lately there have been too many potty dancing and waiting til the last minute thinking that he can get away with it.  Or the classic watching a movie or playing a video game and not wanting to take the time to go to the bathroom.  Consequences have included not being able to finish the movie, being done with the game, etc., but it still hasn't sunk in.  JUST GO WHEN YOU NEED TO GO.  And when he has an accident, he waits til he's caught before doing anything about it hoping that we won't catch him.  Yuck!!!  If you have an accident, take care of it.  Sheesh!

So today I'm watching a friend's kids.  One of the girl's is 9 and knows the consequences of such an act.  Discreetly she asked him why his pants were wet, but he was trying to hide it from me so he whispered that he didn't want me to know.  Luckily I saw this conversation out of the corner of my eye and used this situation to my advantage.  Being the sweet girl she is, she wasn't going to press it but kept trying to tell him that he needed to tell me or he'd get into even more trouble.  He went off to play in his room and that's when I gave her permission to make fun of him.  She was nice about it, but did the job well enough that he finally changed his clothes and went to hide in my room.  He didn't like getting made fun of ... Poor guy.  I just hope it helps.