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3Yr Old Pooping on Potty Help
Asked by A.K. from Milwaukee
on February 2, 2010
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My just turned 3 yr old boy has been pee trained since summer except at night. We switched to pull ups a couple months ago and as most kids he uses them as diapers. He...
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- Get rid of the pull-ups..they are nothing more than glamourized diapers. Try using big boy pants and get him into the game by saying we are a big boy now and no more...
- I guess my first question is: are you talking about pooping on the big potty or a little chair? If he doesn't want to poop in the big potty (even in one of those chai...
- This is VERY common. We went through it with my now 13 year old son and even sought professional advice. This is contrary to the other poster, but I think your pedia...
3 Year Old Not Pooping in the Potty
Asked by M.E. from Minneapolis
on August 27, 2009
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Hi- my daughter is 3 and is potty trained to a certain degree. She refuses to poop on the potty, insists on a pull-up. I have tried to refuse but she just holds it i...
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- My daughter just turned 3 about two weeks ago... We are in the same boat and what I have noticed if we are around other kids her age and they have to go to the bathroo...
- If my son was having a "stubborn" potty day, I found it helped to tell him that we couldn't go to the park, go outside, whatever --- UNTIL he pooped in the potty. Thi...
- My neighbors experienced the same thing. It will stop being a big deal to her when it stops being a big deal to you. She'll poop in the potty in her own time or when...
4 Yr Old Boy Won't Poop in Potty!
Asked by K.A. from Minneapolis
on March 10, 2010
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My youngest of 3 children is a 4 year old boy. He has been peeing in the potty for about 2years!! Yet, the only time he will poop in the potty chair is when I make him...
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- I feel your pain. As horrible as it sounds, we resorted to a bribe. There was a toy my daughter wanted and we told her she could have it when she pooped in the potty...
- My younger son went through the same thing when he was 3.5 years old. He just did not get used to poo in the toilet, and sometimes scary about it. What we did was boug...
- My daughter was pretty late potty training and even later pooping in the potty. I finally had to threaten her that she could not go to school if she would not poop in ...
Toliet Paper Clogging Toliet
Asked by S.D. from Phoenix
on December 4, 2011
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Do you ladies believe that it could be the brand toliet paper that stops up the toliet ? This is driving me nuts. We bought Charmin and then found costco brand. Char...
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- Yes, there's a huge difference in toilet paper brands, just ask all the people who have to deal with septic tank problems. Charmin is one of the worst brands for toil...
- Our toilets are starting to do the same thing. We are on septic but never had this problem before. I think some brands (Charmin) are way too thick. We started usin...
- I don't know about the Costco brand, but we NEVER buy Charmin, because every time it clogs the toilet.
Is It Okay to Throw Old Coffee Grounds down the Garbage Disposal?
Asked by T.L. from Detroit
on July 7, 2011
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Does anyone know if this will cause the disposal to break?
Thanks.
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- The TRICK is to never ever EVER put coffee grounds AND eggshells in the same disposal. My parents have been putting coffee grounds down disposals for decades. They'...
- My brother is a plumber. He always tells me only put in the disposal what 'can' be eaten. (That means no watermelon rinds, etc.) So I would probably vote no on the co...
- I would say no because my mom was just telling me last week that their disposal was tore up at work because someone was putting coffee grounds in there-lol! So I would...
Poopy Training
Asked by K.W. from Madison
on July 27, 2011
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Hi moms. We have a 2 year, 8 month old boy who was EXTREMELY easy to potty-train. He went from untrained w/ occasional sits on the potty chair to completely potty-tr...
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- I told my kids they couldn't wear their underwear/panties until they were pooping in the potty. I did not want to deal with what you are describing. Our son was scar...
- Allowing a child to use diapers for pooping is only "going back" in your own mind! If your son has not yet progressed to pooping in the potty, he has yet to "go forwar...
- This is VERY common and you will find all kind of previous posts about it on this website. We went through this with both of my sons. It's very important to remain p...
Potty Training
Asked by M.D. from Minneapolis
on August 5, 2008
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I'm desperately trying to potty train my 3 yr old twin daughters, and I'm not having any luck with it. So experienced moms out there please give me some advice, sugge...
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- Drop the "bad mom" stuff because it will snowball on you M.. How can anyone be bad who is raising twins and a son with down syndrome? Take a step back for a moment and...
- Wow, that is insensitive for someone to say to a mom who does as much as you must do for her children. You don't need the stress of a relationship like that in your l...
- You are not a bad mom!!! Get that out of your head. Two are harder because they can stick together on things like this. A co-workers twin boys were not potty trai...
Moldy Tub Toys
Asked by A.L. from Austin
on March 1, 2010
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You ladies have always been so helpful! I'm hoping I can depend on y'all again.
Rubber duckies and other tub toys that squirt: how do you keep the INSIDES from ge...
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- Putting chlorine bleach into the wastewater stream is becoming an environmental hazard. It's best to avoid it whenever possible. I use a half cup of baking soda (o...
- Here's what I do (I'm almost out of the squirty toy phase!). I put them in a bucket of bleach water, suck the water into the toys, shake them and let it soak for a fe...
- If they are still moldy after a bleach treatment, it is time to toss them. I do like the others said where I empty them completely after bath, rinse, and periodically...
Toy Flushed in the Toilet...
Asked by M.D. from Spokane
on June 16, 2008
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Ugh... My 2 1/2 year old daughter flushed a little ducky fingernail scrubber down the toilet. Has anybody else experienced this? My question is...how do we fix the ...
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- We had to pull our toilet years ago when something got flushed down and was stuck in the actual toilet. We bought a simple plumbing book from Home Depot and it gave u...
- I work at a wastewater treatment plant and we do occasionally get those types of things coming through to the plant (we found one of those small rubber ducky’s recen...
- Wow, another reminder to me (mine's only just about old enough to start doing this) to keep the bathroom secure. One book I read said not to even bother with toil...
What to Do with Dirty Diapers?
Asked by M.S. from Green Bay
on May 14, 2008
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My little girl is almost 4 months old. She is our first. We have a garbage pail with a lid right now in the baby room that we are tossing the dirty diapers in. We a...
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- I kept the diaper pail in the bathroom and just walked to the bathroom to toss it in when I was done changing. I empty it daily when I am leaving. It also helps chil...
- A drop of tea tree oil or sprinkle some baking soda right in the bag or bottom of the can. I use one or the other, depending on which one I have one hand.
- M.- First of all, have you researched cloth diapers? As I tell everyone, they're not our mother's cloth diapers at all. I used disposable for my first 3 and wish I w...
