Quote:
Originally Posted by Bossypartigurl  When I See Him About To Pee On The Floor Is It Bad To Clap My hands? Instead of yelling at him |
Would you yell at your baby if it were peeing/pooping? Right now, I wouldn't yell or clap or anything. Just say "Uh oh" and get him ASAP and whisk him to his pad, where you say in an upbeat voice "Go potty" over and over just as he's doing it. If you say it enough while he's in the act of eliminating, he'll learn the command and actually try to go when he hears you say "Go potty".
But until he's got body control, the very best thing to do is not have him on any pad-free flooring. Confine him to an area of the room that you have COMPLETELY COVERED with newspaper and pads and use large cardboard boxes or pet fencing to keep him from leaving that area when he's out of his crate, so that he can't make a mistake on the floor until he's quite a bit older and showing you he's got some control. But I would not clap or yell at all right now - just say "uh oh", particularly during these next two or three weeks, when his brain is going to be imprinting or learning what fear is.