Potty Training - Blanchester, OH

He'll poop eventually. I had to end up potty training my two sons who are 14 months apart, now ages 9 and 10, at the same time. Peeing was a breeze. I finally just stopped the pull ups all together. I just put them in underwear and planned on throwing them out if they had an accident. It only took one accident for them to use the toilet. They don't like that poop touching their bottoms in underwear so they decided it would be easier to use the toilet. Hope this helps!

that is very common. he'll grow out of it.

Give it time ;) He'll get it down. It took my son a few months longer after peeing all the time on the potty before he would poop. It's a scary thing. They have this fear they are losing a part of their body. I found dumping the poop in the potty after he went in the pull up helped b/c he could see that's where it belonged. We would have a little poopy party when we did it-celebrating that it was gone and no more smellies! You're doing awesome! My son is 4 and he still doesn't have the nights down on a consistent basis!!!

Hi A.,
I feel your frustration, I have gone through the potty training phase twice with my own two kids and I run an in-home childcare. So I do a lot of potty training. I had a child that did the same thing. I tried putting the pull-up on the outside of the underpants. That way the child still feels as if he or she is wearing a pull- up, but feels what it's like to actually go in their pants. It worked for that child. (I personally don't like pull-ups, they are a waste of money and all they really are is a glorified diaper.) I know that pooping in the pants is not very pretty and actually gross, but with some kids they use the pull-ups as a security blanket. Try it after a couple of time maybe they will actually go and use the potty. You could also try placing a potty training potty in all the rooms that your child is in that way they feel if they have to go they can stop and just go. Let me know how it goes or if you want you can email me direct. -mehumphrey

We had the same issues. I didn't push it though because you don't want a child that starts holing it for days or you get another whole set of problems. (ie. it hurts to go on the potty OR in a pull up!!) We always dumped the diaper into the potty so, that wasn't the scary part for our son. I guess it was just sititng on the toilet! We continuted to talk nonchalant that some day he would be ready to sit on the toilet and eventually he just did it all on his own! That was awesome and worth the wait knowing that he was really ready and it was his choice with no pressure. I didn't mind giving him the pull up when he asked for it. He would take it and go in the bathroom to do his business. So, at least I knew that he understood when he needed to go and that it was just overcoming his fear. He never once had an accident in his underwear or I might have felt differently about the whole process. :) Just be patient and good luck!

Hello, I had the same issue but, I decided that if I put a diaper or pull up on my son that he would never use the potty. So I just left him in underwear and when he had to poop he finally used the potty. Of course he had an accident or two, but he finally got there. I also never made a big deal out of accidents.

We went through the same thing with my daughter, only she wouldn't put a pull-up on, she would just poop in her undies. I don't know if she was afraid of pooping in the potty. Everytime we saw her getting ready to go, we would take to her potty chair and put her on and after she went we praised her for using the potty. We even reward her sometimes with a piece of candy. She has been potty trained now for 2 months and in the past 2-3 weeks she has started pooping and peeing in her potty chair. She gets very excited and wants to show everyone and have them clap for her. So try to encourage him to try the potty and make sure to praise him a lot when he does. That's what worked for us.

What worked best for my toddler was to do "bare bottom" potty training for a week. You can't leave the house for a week, but it worked like a charm. Don't put any underwear or pull-ups on him and just let him run around with a bare bottom. When he starts to go poop, he'll realize he's doing it and run to the bathroom. We only had one poop accident the whole week- and now (2 weeks later) she is completely 100% potty trained. Good luck!