Potty training at five?

Question

What can I do to get a child who is five to use the potty to go poop? I know that's a gross question--but he wasn't potty trained until last year and still doesn't go number two in the potty?

Answer 1

First of all I'm wondering if your son is wearing diapers or pull-ups? If not I would suggest that you start. I know a few people that potty trained their boys and girls at 5. in rare cases there are children that hold onto their diapers until 6. Just diaper him after an accident, and perhaps a little babying. 5 year old boys will usually resist babying especially if they have friends around. Maybe keep him in a stinky diaper for 30 minutes or so, and if there are people around let it be known that you have to change your baby's diaper. He'll come around when he's ready. I'm sure your a good mother for being able to openly discuss this. good luck!

Answer 2

I bought stickers for my son as a reward. I didn't want to give him candy or junk. I also rented lots of Potty movies. He really liked Potty Power. When he did go on the potty, I congratulaed, applauded, & did whatever I could to show him that he did a great thing. Potty training to me was the hardest of all tasks so far. It is not a gross question. Every child has to learn how to. :)

Answer 3

well, summer is almost oer so this may not help. My nephew was 'terrified' (his words) of the potty at age 4 1/2. I do not change diapers for a kid that old. No way. I made him clean himseld up, which he hated. ( I did need to assist a bit.) Next, he played outside without pants or undies on (just a long t-shirt to keep privates hidden) I had a potty chair outside and told him he could use that instead of the indoor toilet. He still claimed to be 'frightened' of toilets. Well, nature called, and he didn't like the answer. It was all over his legs, flies started to come, he had to clean himself with the outdoor garden hose. Toilet fears disappeared after that.

Answer 4

I use a star reward system or "treasure chest". The chest is comprised of small inexpensive little toys. At first, my son would get one everytime he went #2 in the toliet and as he does it more often, I've switched to the sticker chart where he is rewarded for using the potty, cleaning and going to sleep good. Once he gets a certain # of stickers, I'll give him a surprise like going to the movies, picking out a toy, ice cream etc.

Answer 5

You didn't say, but I assume he's going in his pants. I've potty trained 5 of my kids now, and I must say- convincing the boys to go poop was the toughest part. Is there the possibility he's constipated? If he's having a tough time going, it may be he's associated the toilet and pooping with pain- cause he's straining to go on the toilet. If he just sort of relaxes and it happens in his pants, it probably doesn't hurt as much, so he'd prefer that way. So make sure that isn't a problem first, and if it is, get with the pediatrician for some solution to that.

The other thing is it could be just the call comes at an inconvenient time for him- and he's waiting too long to go or he's just a tad bit lazy. I had this situation with one son, when he started preschool with younger kids. They had pullups, and there didn't seem to be any big deal with the kids going in their pants. So my son "back slid". It's not funny dealing with poopy pants from a kid old enough to be eating a full diet- not pleasant at all, as you no doubt know. What I did was to present the natural consequences to him. After all, in our house we clean up our own messes, so this was his personal mess to deal with. When he had an "accident", we'd go to the bathroom with a bucket and the laundry detergeant. I'd have him rinse off the shorts in the toilet, and then hand launder them in the bucket full of nice warm water. The warm water had the wonderful effect of really presenting the odor close to his nose- and the entire experience was not really pleasant. When he objected, I told him it wasn't my underwear, and I could not wash them in the washer until they had been properly rinsed and disinfected. Since they were his underwear, and he'd decided to make the mess, it was up to him to get them cleaned up. I didn't get mad, I didn't punish him more- I just required him to clean them up. Then I bought some of the Superman undershorts he'd been wanting- and told him when he was reliable to not poop in his pants, he could have them. We had a calendar, and each week that he made it without incident, I would present him with a pair of fancy shorts. By the time he had the full pack of five, he was into the potty poop routine again and we had no further problems. In fact, we had no more incidents after the first week of cleaning up his own shorts! After all, their nose is closer to the bucket than yours would be, and it isn't any more pleasant for them than it is you. If you make too big of a fuss, he can continue to do it just for spite. I would agree with my son that it was a stinky mess, and he was a bit old for it, and I had no sympathy for him. Sometimes Dad would poke his head in and ask what was going on, and I'd tell him that "son" had to do a messy cleanup. Son was a bit embarassed, but nothing was really said other than that. As I said, the problem seemed to solve itself once he had to deal with the cleanup a few times.

Answer 6

I helped potty train a child I was babysitting--had the same problem with the pooping. We used a reward system--her mom was giving her candies and such. Turns out that they were making the poor child more constipated. When we switched to yogurt covered raisins and dried fruit for rewards, she went more and ended up with more rewards, etc.

Answer 7

wow five. well my daughter was potty trained at 3 and she for some reason didn't like doing poo in the potty. but here's the logic, if he doesnt poo in the potty where does he poo?? you dont have him in pull ups?? if so then stop it! and he'll have to poo eventually. soon she was pooing in the potty cause she had to go real bad lol it was a one day thing and after that she was fully potty trained.

Answer 8

let him clean up his own **** in his big boy pants!! he'll learn real quick where to put it!! Then reward him for pooping in the potty. Kids are pretty all stickered out. yes i know spoiled but true. Ask him what he would like for a reward who knows it might be just taking him to the park!

Answer 9

i think of you won't be waiting to get the respond right here from people who are not conscious of her particular needs. you recognize what she's bodily and emotionally waiting to do, and what her independence point is, and that's what's important earlier understanding what's suitable to assume. confer with a minimum of one in each of her medical doctors approximately it or possibly ask on a help team for oldsters of youngsters along with her concern. My standard suggestion i think of is to verify you do no longer push it plenty you supply her a complicated approximately it. possibly she merely won't be able to be lavatory knowledgeable, or a minimum of precise now? in step with risk the concentration could be on independence skills with changing her very own pull up, and so on. i do no longer know in her case. i'm additionally the mummy of a teenager with significant particular needs. there replaced into no cognitive or actual reason that she could no longer potty prepare at an familiar age, yet she replaced into at the back of schedule in it. i think of it replaced into emotional. With maximum of perplexing issues in her life that she had no administration over, this replaced into some thing she DID have administration over, and he or she used it. What worked suitable for her replaced into to stop sweating it and pushing it.

Answer 10

My son had a hard time doing that too. He was scared to death, and he sauid it was gross. We eventually went to the reward thing and it worked. Good luck!