HELP!!!!!!!!! My 5Yr Old Is Peeing in His Bedroom Instead of the Bathroom

Maybe try putting him back in those pull up trainer pants. He is old enough to know better... so explain until he uses the bathroom like a big boy, he will wear those pants. If I remember correctly, they're kind of hard to pull off! Have his dad be a role model for the correct way to use the potty. There may also be something that is scaring him with the toilet--maybe the water??? Talk to him and see if there's something going on you just don't know about.

Been there done that. Ok look...make him clean it up. Don't get angry with him...that just adds fuel to the fire, trust me on this. When you see something like that, no expression on your face, don't raise your voice, don't threaten or take stuff away, just look him in his eyes with a plain bored look on your face and tell him to clean it up and then walk away. When he gets tired of having to clean it up, he'll stop. My 5 year old is stubborn and just don't want to learn so it took him a couple months of this before he gave up and just started using the toilet all the time.

Have you heard of the chart system? You make a chart with there favvorite character on it and place it in the bathroom or on his room door. The point is to give your child a sticker for everyday that they go to the bathroom correctly all day if they pee or poop on the floor you take a sticker away and make them clean it up. At the end of the week if they have all stickers they recieve a treat this may be ice cream or whatever you like. This systems seems to work very well it is how we potty trained our son and it is also how he now remembers to clean up his toys at night. In the end they get so use to doing it and they forget about the treat and the stickers. Hope this helps.

It sounds like there is an underlying issue. My son did the same thing because he was mad at me because I played with his sister more....which was untrue but that is how he saw it. He is getting attention for it.

Maybe try making him responsible for what he is doing...if he makes the mess he should clean the mess...Perhaps he will hate cleaning it up and stop doing it. Also if you go to bed later than he does then wake him up to go to the bathroom before you go to bed. And you can take away drinking and eating 2 or 3 hours before bed and if he wants to earn that right back then he will have to learn to expell in the proper place.
Hope it helps you out....Hugs M.

BELIEVE THIS OR NOT......MY SON JUST STARTED DOING THIS ABOUT 1-2 MONTHS AGO.....He is 4 1/2. I found that his room smelled like pee and then I found wet things.....I thought he was making a mess with water....then I put the 2&2 together and not to mention the stain....and I was devistated!!!! I thought it was just my child!!!!

But, since then.....I think we have officially kicked this peeing in the floor...corner...basket...stuffed animals...etc. I was so tired of it and didn't know why...He said pretty much the same thing....Couldn't make it to the bathroom or I don't know!!!!

The way we got this stopped is to show him the things he is peeing on were important...like the stuffed animal Mamaw bought for you when you were still in my belly!!! And then we told him how we would have to put him back in diapers...or pull-ups....like his sister and baby brother....then we wouldn't have a big boy anymore...There would be no big boy of the house!!! Also, all of the other kids that he knows about the same age that were big boys and girls and used the bathroom!!! That is where everyone is supposed to pee and poop!!!! We made him help clean it up!!! Also, I told him that if he would quit it for 7 days straight then we would buy him a DVD. One that he had been wanting. So....this worked!!! All of the things together!!!! Since we bought the PRIZE....he has never thought about the peeing anywhere than the potty again.....Just kinda over-look-it(I know this is hard) but don't make a big deal out of it!!! Make him help you clean it up!!!! THIS WORKED FOR US, HOPE IT DOES FOR YOU!!! GOOD LUCK :)