I Can't Get My Son to Poop on the Potty...

I have found with my two boys that you can try as much as you want and as long as you want and isn't going to work until they are ready.
All of a sudden one day (with both of my boys) they just woke up and decided that they were ready to use the potty! It came first with peeing and then a few weeks to a month or so later the other came...lol My first son had and still has a bit of bathroom anxiety and he holds until he binds himself up- especailly when he was first starting out. Anyway, we just continued letting them wear the underwear so it didn't hurt their self esteem since they could pee on the potty and they tried to poop on the potty but they had a lot of poop accidents and everytime they did we both walked into the bathroom and I flushed it into the toilet and reminded them of where it goes and let them flush it down and threw on new big boy undies! It didn't take too long at all til they were ready.
Sticker charts can work great too if you want to encourage them! Maybe after 4 pr 5 stickers they can get a small prize?!

GOOD LUCK!
C.

I would have him stand next to the potty while making BM in his diaper and then having him take off his diaper and dump the BM into the toilet and flush it down.

Then I would try sitting him on the potty while he was wearing his diaper and doing the same thing once it comes out.

Then he might be more ready to sit and do it directly.
I know it can be so frustrating.
Good luck!!!!!

Does he still poop in a diaper?

Haven't gone through this myself, but I'm a behavior analyst and deal with this a work all the time.

If he poops in a diaper, let him ask for one when he needs to poop, but only let him have it in the bathroom.

Once he's successful with that, only let him use it while sitting on the potty.

Then move on to removing it. Some people can remove the entire diaper right away, other have to move very slowly (cut larger and larger holes in it.) I have a feeling this won't be an issue with your son.

HTH
L.

My 3 1/2 year old daughter has had issues with pooping on the potty as well. She has been trained for pee for about 6 months and usually goes pee and poop in the potty but sometimes she will just poop her pants and it does't seem to bother her. I make a big deal out of her going poop on the potty and she gets rewards (like M and Ms and choc. chips) for each visit to the toilet. I hated to use sweets for this purpose, but she eats a very healthy diet, so I figured it's not that bad. We also have a poster on the fridge called "I had a Dry Day". Every time she goes the whole day without an accident she gets a sticker and at the end of several times, she gets a prize, like a book or a small toy. She loves these little rewards and they do motivate her, but it's just been a very slow process. (The chart starts with one day, then a reward, then two days needed for a reward and so on. At the end of seven days without a reward, she'll get something big and the chart will be complete).
I also let her read on the toilet and sometimes she even sits on her little potty in front of the tv. This was another thing I resisted doing, because I didn't want her to "need" tv to poop, but what I find is that she is able to relax, take her time and not worry about the poop, and then it just comes... Good luck with this. I konw how it can be very difficult and trying on our patience!

I went through this with my son when he was younger. According to his pediatrician they feel that their "BM's" are apart of their body and that's why they're afraid to let it go in the toilet. He'd go in the pamper but not in the toilet.

What worked for me was reading books about "pottying". Also what one woman said (even though it sounds nasty); when he goes BM in his pamper show it to him right after and also let him see you dump it in the toilet.

It didn't take very long for this phase to go away.

is his feet on the floor he might need that some kids are afaird of the big toielt