Help with last part of potty training.

[Brumeiser]

Well everyone on this board has helped me so far with potty training so can you please help with the last phase. He is doing very well with your help in going pee pee in the potty no problems. The problem is the poop part. He knows when he does that because he now and goes hide in another room and does his business. Then comes out and explain that he pooped. I talked to him and asked him why he doesn't like to go poop in the potty and he says he is scared. I ask him scared of what and he can't tell me. Does anyone have any good practical advice on what we can do to overcome his fear? Bribery does no good, he knows he will get a new bedroom set if he poops in the potty, but we are getting nowhere with this. So everyone on this board who can help please help.

 

[mickeyboat]

Thank goodness we did not have this problem, but I have heard of a lot of people who have. I know a little girl who was 5 and still asking for a pull-up to poop in.

Make sure your child is getting plenty of fiber and liquids so he does not get constipated. You don't want it to hurt to poop. Also, has he ever watched you or your DH poop? I know it sounds odd, but maybe if he could see that it is a normal part of being a human, he would be less scared? If you are uncomfortable, maybe just show him someone else's poop so your child understands that it is o.k.

Good luck.

Denae

 

[funhouse8]

After he poops have hime clean his diaper and put the poop in the toilet and flush. This way he knows this is where it belongs. When it starts to be a pain in the neck to do this he might feel it's alot easier just to poop there first. Good luck

 

[ItsonlyExperiment626]

I agree with Mickeyboat as to let him watch someone make a poop on the toilet. Afterwards explain how happy the poop is to get to go swimming. Wave and say bye-bye as you flush.

When DS had the pee-pee part down I put him in big boy pants. I would keep a close eye on him if he to see if he had to go poop. If he did and try to go into hiding, I would put him on the potty. I he did not go than I would take him off and watch him again. If he seem as though he needed to go again, I could again put him on the potty. Eventually, he couldn't hold it anymore and poop in the potty. Afterwards, I would tell him the poop story again. It didn't take long for him to learn the poop was much happier to go swimming than to be smashed against your butt.

 

[melk]

I can't remember where we got it from but we had ordered online a coloring book to help with potty training. It also came with a laminated reward chart to chart their progress with stickers. At the end of the coloring book it showed the poops happy to be flushed down the toilet because then they could go to the "poo poo party" (yes it was ridiculous and funny, they had on little party hats and were really whooping it up). But they were happy to be flushed away so they could have fun with their friends.

Anyway, I know some kids have this problem because the kids look at it as a part of themselves that is being flushed away. Good luck!!

 

[mom2grace]

How about an immediate bribe? We gave DD an ice cream cone when she would go poopy in the potty.

One thing with her, if she had on a diaper, it was a screaming nightmare to try to get her out of it and onto the potty.....we used only cloth panties except at nighttime.

It took a long time! Hang in there!

 

[GJM]

My DS was the exact same way - would not poop on the toilet. He never said he was scared or anything just wouldn't do it. Bribery didn't work, I could promise him anything and he wouldn't care.

One day he told me he had to poop and he wanted to go on the toilet, out of the blue! We did use one of those little seats that go on top of the toilet seat.

Good Luck!

 

[Minnie824]

DD was that way too. It took 2 months after she was potty trained peeing. I was getting frustrated..tried everything. Finally one day, I told her if she didn't go on the potty, and went in her pullup, we wouldn't go to gymnastics and mcdonalds that night, which she knew was a weekly event. Well, she went in her pullup, and we stayed home. The next day, she went on the potty and was fine ever since. Not sure if that was the 'right' way to do it, but it was all that worked. Good luck!

 

[TnKrBeLlA012]

I just finished potty training my daughter. She had the same problem with going number two. She said she was scared. I felt bad so I continued to let her use the pull ups. Then one day I ran out of pullups. I told her I have no more diapers. I more or less forced her to use the potty. She knew also she had no choice. It just took the one time and then she was fine.