My son pees on the pot like a champ. He refuses to poop on it though! I've let him walk around the house naked so I could keep track and make sure nothing is coming out. lol But the second I take my eyes of him he will poop on the floor. Most days we just use diapers now because it's become such a hassle. I'm not mean and I don't use force. I just tell him and he refuses, even if he's sitting on the toilet! He's pooped on the floor before, just so he wouldn't have to go on the potty. I've bought him toys that I know he likes. (3 things to be exact) I put them up on his shelf and told him that he could have them once he poops. Well....any other suggestions? Is this a boy thing? Or a stubborn thing!
2007-08-08 18:33:39 · 6 answers · asked by cutesy76 6 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
I just potty trained my son and daughter and I used The Potty Stool http://www.thepottystool.com I started by just setting it at the toilet. My kids immediately climbed up on the stool and discovered that they could safely use the toilet. This got them very interested in using the toilet and they were potty trained very quickly.
It really helps kids to have good footing with bowel movements and the stool gives them great support for their feet and their arms. Of course boys can also use it to pee standing right into the toilet with no mess.
I like that I don't have to double the steps of potty training by training them first in a potty and then training them to stop using a potty. And not dumping and cleaning a potty each time is great. The best thing is that kids use it for years. I hope this helps you.
2007-08-09 18:54:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You didn't say how old your son is, but I'm assuming he is in the neighborhood of 2-3. This is one of the most frustrating things, I totally hear you, we are going through it right now with my 4-1/2 year old son. We have tried absolutely everything out there, bribery, walking around naked, getting him on the toilet every hour and a half, reading to him on the toilet. He will pee on his own but we still have to tell him to go every so often. Every once in a while we can catch him at just the right moment and he will poop on the potty (like maybe once a month), but most of the time he will just hold onto it until he can't anymore and goes in his pull ups. We tried big boy underwear but I got tired of washing it out and he just didn't seem to care about it. My advice to you is continue on the way you are going, don't make a big deal about it. This is one of those things that he has total control of and you don't. One thing that was said on one of my other mommy groups by a mommy of a 5 year old that they had just gotten trained was that she felt that some kids just don't make the association between the urge to go potty and actually doing anything in the potty. Sometimes they take a long time to develop the recognization of the urge. Also, it can be an attention-getting thing. If you have other children, especially if your son is the oldest, he may figure that is how he is guaranteed to get mommy's attention for a brief period of time. I'm fairly sure that is going on with my son, we also have a 9 month old little girl and she does get the lion's share of attention at the moment. Just a thought, does he have a certain place he poops on the floor? Maybe putting the potty chair there and taking it out of the bathroom. Good luck, hang in there and know that there are other parents out there doing the poop patrol right along with you!!!
2007-08-09 01:47:51 · answer #2 · answered by karenmillerhan 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Boys are notorious for being harder then girls. I know my son is 3.5 and just figured out the poop thing recently thanks to a stomach bug giving him cramps. It's not that he's being difficult or refusing to go. Most kids learn to poop while standing or squatting and just going when it's there to go. Learning to hold it in and also how to release it while sitting on a potty is pretty difficult for them. Be patient with him and try to keep track of when he does poop. Alot of children have a natural clock of a general time when they go. Place him on the potty with something that will distract him so he does focus on having to go to make you happy and thus freeze up a natural process.
good luck it will happen with patience!
2007-08-09 01:44:37 · answer #3 · answered by starfire978 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've heard that it is a control issue with children. They can control when they potty or not. I would put pull ups on him and when hes goes in it, take him into the bathroom and put the poop in the potty and let him fush it down and say bye bye to it, wipe him up while hes sitting on the potty. Pooping always seems to be harder to train than the peeing.
2007-08-09 01:43:01 · answer #4 · answered by beach mama 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
OH MY GOD...IT IS SO A MALE THING!!! He will do it when he is ready to do so. Patients girl it will happen. I did the same thing, I even put his chair in the dang living room...Well after a few struggles he did it and I made such spectacle of it that he like so much he continued to use the chair just to see me do flips!!No lie! He will come around you will see, Good Luck...
2007-08-09 01:41:57 · answer #5 · answered by Bigeyes 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Have you tried letting him pick out his own "Big boy" underware? Sometimes letting them pick it out helps. It gives them something to look forward to. Tell him he can't wear it until he starts pooping in the toilet.
2007-08-09 01:40:32 · answer #6 · answered by Ryan's mom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋