My daughter is 2 1/2 years old. She is quite stubborn, but she comes by it naturally. She is not potty trained yet, although it is obvious that she's ready. She can't stand to have a wet pull up and takes it off immediately. So here's my problem, when she is poopy, instead of telling me or her daddy she just digs into her pullup and starts wiping it all over herself, and last night it moved to her bedding also. Has anyone dealt with this, and if so how did you stop it? Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
I have a two year old girl that is doing those same things and what i have found that works is putting a onesie on her she cant get to it then.
Some kids don't become fully potty trained until they're almost 5. If you make a big deal when she has an accident then she's going to keep doing it...negative attention is better than no attention and kids are born with the idea that making mom crazy is actually amusing...it's their job to drive us batty. Instead...put her in panties when she's awake and only use the pull up at night. Make a chart to hang on the bathroom wall where everytime she uses the potty she gets a sticker. If she earns so many stickers in a week she gets a reward (extra mommy and baby time doing something fun works well) and don't forget to chear and make a big production everytime she earns a sticker...clap your hands, yell "horray you did it horray!" while jumping up and down or something...they like to see us act silly. If she has an accident, don't get mad, just say ok, lets go clean up...and say nothing else. She'll soon make a connection between not having the accident and getting cheared and a sticker and having an accident and only getting cleaned up and nothing more.
My son decided to paint with poop a few times 3 to be exact. Someone once suggested putting a Onesie on a child that was doing this so they couldn't get to the diaper which I wish I had heard of at the time.If you think she is acting out don't go balistic but definitely let her know you do not approve and that it is not acceptable behavior. Also even though they might be starting to be ready to potty train remember it is not always a straightforward process sometimes you take a step backward to go forward 2. We had to, they seemed trained and then did a step back( my twins) even though my older two were pretty simple to train. Finally Jelly Belly beans were the key they got one for peeing and two for pooping. J.
My nephew would not poop in the potty so my brother made up the "Happy potty" song (same tune as happy birthday) Everytime he went they lit a candle and he got to blow it out as they sang happy potty to you. It worked.
I think it is normal for kids that age to play with their mess. I think they are curious and are trying to figure out what it is and where it came from because it wasn't there when the diaper was put on. Both my daughters went through this and I would get so upset because it would be on them from head to toe and all over the bed, covers and walls...anything they could get their hands on actually lol. The good news, she will grow outta this. The bad news, it took my daughters 2-6 months to do that. My second daughter was the worst about it. I started taking her diaper off her and dumping it into the toilet so she could see where it went instead of everywhere else. I also gave her a bath everytime she did this and scrubbed her from head to toe and most young ones don't like having their hair washed. I would explain each time that if she gets yucky on her, she would have to have a bath and her hair cleaned. After a while, she caught on. I hope this helps...good luck!
Dear K.,
I have dealt with the potty issue. Of course, my wasn't a girl but it is about the same. All I did was starting putting underware on him. When he went in the underware then I would change him and put him in time out for about 10-15 minutes. After he was done with time out, then I would explain to him why he was there. That worked for about a cuople of weeks. When he started doing it again, then i would change him and stand him in the courner for about 10-15 minutes. That made it finally click in that mommy wasn't playing and that he needed to use the potty. Try this and let me know how it works out with you. If this won't work then I'll ask my cousin what she did because she had two little girls that she had to pooty break. You can e-mail me at staciel304.aol.com.
I hope it work for you. Like I said if not I can find out what will.
sincerly,
S.
It's great that you are getting some responses to your problem because when I posted the very same problem, I did not get one response. My son is doing the very same thing. He see's physicians at Riley hospital and they told me to work on potty training as sternly and as soon as possible and that him smeering his poop is just a phase and that it will most likely pass once I get him potty trained. I hope this will help and good luck!
Well I also have a daughter that is 2 1/2 she will be 3 in March. I never thought we would get on the right trach with the potty. Opposite to your daughter she didn't care if her pull-up was wet. I would pressure her all the time but nothing worked. Then we started a sticker board pee in potty one sticker poop in potty 2 stickers. After getting so many stickers in a row she got a present. Well that worked for awhile then it also slacked off. Then everytime she pooped she would stick her hand in it and get it all over her fingers then come and show us her hand and said she pooped. That was an aggervation in itself. The we finally decided to stop hastling her about it. And about 3 or 4 weeks ago she decides she isn't going to poop in her pull and she has the pooping in the potty down pat. I haven't changed a poopy pull-up for 3 weeks on her. She went back to the sticker board and likes it really well. We are finally getting on the right track with the pottying. When I am off from work I put her in panties at home and she does pretty well. But of course she has a few accidents here and there. This is a point I never thought I would get to. So just hang in there!
