My little girl is just couple of months away from her 3rd birthday. She has achieved many of her developmental milestones. However, we still can’t check off one thing on the list. Potty Training. She knows what the potty is. She has done #1 and #2 in the potty in the past. But she just doesn’t seem to be interested to use it since going there would just interrupt her exciting activities.
So, as any amateur economist would do with incentive problem, is to create a new incentive that can elicit the desired result. Or, in another word, bribe. I was determine to bribe my little girl to start using the potty regularly. The bride I chose is Hershey Kisses. Desired result is to go to the potty and stop using the diaper.
After 2 days, failure. I gave her an entire Hershey Kiss early in the morning after she went to the potty. She can do that one pretty good. I told her, every time she go pee pee in the potty she gets a chocolate. As the hours ticked by, I watched her. She looked like she needs to go. I told her to go to the potty and if she pees, she gets chocolate. She just looked at me and said, “no potty, no chocolate.”
She would rather give up an entire Hershey Kiss instead of going to the potty. Well, that was a failure.
