Comments on: A Persuasion Secret Toddlers Teach

By: jackforde

jackforde — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:28:53 +0000

Sounds familiar, Katleen… but stick with it! I’ve yet to meet the person who never kicked the diaper habit ; )

P.S. How old is he? There’s definitely a “too young” phase. If you start too early, you’ll just end up frustrated… and so will he. Better to wait, if that’s the case.

Not that you asked, but try finding out what he thinks of as a better bribe. Might be that he just doesn’t care for chocolate (our daughter didn’t) or the kinds of stickers.

(A copywriting lessong for all of us… the incentive has to be right. If you’re not getting the results, test a change to the incentive!)

Also, the chart is key. One block for every successful visit. And as for the use of the adult toilet rather than the potty… how about just getting a step stool and one of those kiddie toilet seats that fit over an adult seat?

Being able to use the same toilet as daddy might actually be part of that incentive you’re looking for.

One last tip… try a pantless, diaperless weekend. Let him run around with nothing for a day or so. Can it get messy? Yes. But it also has a way of upping his sense of urgency to use the bathroom.

It’s a last resort… but it works!

Good luck.

By: Katleen

Katleen — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:23:05 +0000

Hello,

We tried it as well. With chocolates, stickers… Nothing works. He won’t a potty training. He stands before the toilet (ours, not his potty), leans afterwards en says (says not: does): “Pssjjj!” And than with twinkling eyes he says: “Like papa!”. He believes that a potty is for baby’s not for big bosses like him. So: wet diapers. Still…

By: jackforde

jackforde — Wed, 05 May 2010 14:03:55 +0000

Hi Joyce,

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By: Joyce Ragle

Joyce Ragle — Mon, 03 May 2010 01:18:33 +0000

There are some of us out here who would not hesitate to buy your subscription based products if you offered us free chocolate. However, I have yet to figure out how to download it.

By: jackforde

jackforde — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:48:41 +0000

Ha ha… don’t take me “gee, this is easy” too literally. We’re under no delusions! Actually, the part of the story above that I didn’t tell is a good illustration of your point. With our daughter, the chocolates didn’t work at all. She turns out not to have much of a sweet tooth. Lucky for her, but it left us scrambling for a different incentive. Butterfly stickers turned out to do the trick. Lesson being, the incentive has to be relevant to the recipient, as you point out.

By: walter daniels

walter daniels — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:59:43 +0000

You only think it’s easy, When they hit the teenage years, you find DRM to be a trivial problem. Especially with a teenage Girl.
It is a good metaphor of typical Human Behavior. People don’t react that quickly, or well, but they will. You have to use incentives with a much higher personal value. Even then, you can only choose the reaction by types, not specifics. Men will react to one, and women, generally to another. Another reaction will vary by age. Whether adult reactions to rewards being different is better, I’ll leave to others.