Potty Training Frusterations!! HELP!!

By what you are saying he does got the bathroom down with wetting in the potty. Try this put a pull up on for bed time and put a small port a potty child size in his bedroom or out by his door in the hallway for a while and tell him if he has to go he can put it in HIS potty and see if this works. My to sons did this because they where comfortable in their bedroom at night time and they did not want to roam around in the dark to go to the big potty. I know this is a pain and sounds gross to be pooping in your bedroom but as soon as he does that you should be able to move him to the bathroom with a night light during the night.
Good Luck,
Kim in Ridley

Hello K.,
I had the same problem with my oldest son he peed but was scared to sit on the tolet and and poop..So I let him from the age of 3 -4 poop in a diaper and then his friends started talking about how they go in the tolet and he wanted to try it then.Now some moms may find that not good but i wasn't in the mood to fight or scare him they know when they are ready..I was so glad when he started going in the tolet and he was so proud of himself.So don't think its your fault or that your doing something wrong.Its just some kids are different.

Good Luck

Just get rid of the diaper. My sons dr said little boys have trouble with letting go of it because it is a solid object and they feel like its a part of them that they r letting go. trust me it takes time! dont make a bit deal of it. This makes them do it longer! I know its hard. my little guy did the same thing for awhile. he even fell back after me and my hubbie went on a small vaca he started it all over again. I wish u the best! Good luck! L

K. -
We have all been there. I have a little boy who will be 4 this year - he has been potty trained since last summer. We have gone through it all - I am a previous elementary teacher so I thought I had this in the bag - no. I did every behavior mod chart, reward system availabale or seen on the internet. No luck, so then we went to force - taking away priviledges; favorite tv shows, snacks before bed, etc. That did not work - took away the toys, books before bed - no luck. So then we went to giving him a pull up and telling him to put it on when he had to go - he does, so every evening he goes to the closet, puts on a pull up, goes to the bathroom and poops in the pull up. Then we change it - I was at my peditrician this week and asked for his take - said he thought my husband and I are on the right track - the only recommendation he had was to not even discuss the poop - change him without discussion and no comments (we had been making comments as we changed him, like "why can't you go on the potty" "want to sit on the potty" - now we don't mention it or engage in conversation about the topic -
So no I don't have an answer, but lets just hope he's not pooping in the diaper at 16.

I had the same problem with my now 5 year old son. I let it go until he started to stay dry in his pull up through out the night. As long as he is not peeing in his diaper leave his favorite character underwear on him. If he poops in them then they get thrown away. It may seem costly but it worked for my son and it took only a couple times for him to realize that if he goes in his pants then his favorite underwear get put in the garabage. My son has been trained since about a month after his 3rd b-day. He still has his accidents and he knows that if he poops his pants the underwear get thrown out. I hope this can help you out.

A.

i had the same problem i think what your doing is a great idea. i know one thing i read was to stay consistent with everything. i know pull ups suck for protection at night but maybe he is rebelling against the diaper for making him feel like a baby still. i read once that switching from diaper to pull up can confuse and frustrate them so i stayed with just the pull up all day until he went 1 week with out a night time accident then i put j=him in underwear with a trash bag under the sheets in case. another thing i did was put his favorite character undies on i didn't throw them away if he pooped on them but i told him scooby doo didn't want poop on him i made scooby talk to him it seemed to help to.