Parents often use rewards because they just don't know how else to persuade their child to use the potty or because what they have already tried hasn’t worked and offering an incentive feels like a way to avoid a battle of wills during a time that the parent may be finding stressful.
Yes your child might love any excuse to have their favourite snack, yes a sticker chart featuring their favourite cartoon character might catch their attention but resorting to using an external motivator like a reward is addressing the symptom and not the cause.
External motivators don’t help your child to sustain a natural love of learning which is a valuable life skill. Rewarding someone for learning something also devalues how important it is to learn it - it puts the focus on getting a prize being the important part of the experience, not the part where they are using the potty. This does not build self esteem or encourage cooperation.
Learning how to be independent from nappies and use the toilet like other adults do is important to learn. The reason to learn it is because it is important, not to get the reward.
Your toddler genuinely wants to please you and wants to be proud of themselves and it’s so important to preserve this innate sense that they have, rather than inadvertently teach our children that they should do things to get things rather than because doing those things are important.
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