Potty Training - Virginia Beach,VA

The best resource I've found for potty-training alternatives and general information is http://www.parentingscience.com/potty-training-tips.html.

There are a number of different training approaches/ages, any of which may be more appropriate for different mothers and different children. And both physical and emotional readiness is essential for the most common approach used today in this culture. Read about just about any potty training question in helpful detail.

Your son's inability to poop yet is not unusual – pee training is often successful before the child is able to connect the dots on pooping. And I'm glad you're watching out for withholding on the bowel movements, which can result in bigger difficulties down the line.

There's another resource which may eventually be useful for poop withholding, but I suspect your son is still too young to get it conceptually. You could check it out, however, and see if this system might just work naturally into your at-home routines: http://www.rogerknapp.com/medical/pottytrainingrefusals.htm

Best of luck to you both!

Ditto everything Peg M said, she beat me to it!

Let your sitter work with your son and ask how and what she's doing and follow her lead at home. The less confusion on your son's part the better, consistency in how you deal with him will help him sort everything out, and it sounds as if he's on his way : )

Ditto, ditto, ditto! Follow the babysitters lead! it will actually make things easier on you! potty training is very difficult for one person to tackle by themselves if you have help by all means use the advantage!

this is probably not going to help at all but i didnt actually Potty train. once they could make it through the night, and that was around 2 i think...lots of years have passed...lol. by 3 they knew no more pull ups no more nothing. its potty time. And by 3 they really do just catch on. but if he is showing interest by all means encourage the heck out of it. Have the sitter help to...kids always do things for friends and other adults over their parents. I got my neice trained in one week while her parents were beating thier heads againast a wall. I just kept telling her (cuz we have a bird in the bathroom) that "milo loves hearing that water music...." so she started saying "i got to make music for milo"...lol and she was 4! shes golden now but I bet she still looks for a bird to make music for.