you can offer the cup as a choice.
If your child is in the tub and announces she has to pee, have the
cup handy. Pee is sterile and it’s perfectly fine for your child to pee in
the tub, but if she is asking, it’s best to honor the request and
respond. The RSC lets you avoid the whole soaking-wet-transfer to
the potty and back to the tub (which usually creates so much
commotion that she can’t relax and release the pee once she’s on the
toilet anyway).
The RSC is also handy to keep in the car for a quick pee before
arriving to or after leaving from somewhere. (Do yourself a huge favor
and keep a Mason/Ball jar with a lid in the car, just in case. At the
beach or lake—or in a snowsuit—it’s easy to pull out and let your kid
do their business with hardly anyone noticing.
Sometimes for kids who are just not loving the potty, the RSC is
simply more fun.
A lot of parents balk at the idea of having their kid pee in a cup.
A lot of parents also find out that this is a great trick and soon start
worrying that their child will only ever pee in a cup. The RSC trick is
a temporary bridge to using the potty. I have never come across a
child who stuck with the trick for a weird period of time.
The Hover Within the Prompt
So, you carefully read the two posts in an earlier chapter on
prompting and backing off. You feel very confident that you are not
overprompting, but you are still seeing some resistance to your