Potty Training - Tempe, AZ

My daughter was doing the exact same thing, so I bought a plastic bedcover to put under her regular sheet and told her that she was a big girl now and she had to wear her underwear to bed, she threw a fit and all, but she only had one accident, and she made it out like it was the end of the world. She has never had another accident. It took some coaxing, but she finally the next evening pooped in the toilet, and we went the next afternoon to get icecream.

My son turn 3 on the 1st and he was doing the same thing. What I did was keep an eye on him when I would put a diaper on him. When ever he goes poop he always hides or gets REALLY quite so when I saw him starting to get ready for poop i would run him to the toilet and sit him on it. At first he would cry but I would just keep doing it. At first he would even hold it in when he was on there but all of a sudden one day I guess he got tired of me scolding him and telling him that he was a big boy now and he told me one day that he needed to go poop. (by the way this was last week that he finally told me) Just make sure you keep reminding him that he is a big boy and make sure u ask him what he needs to say if he needs to go so that u and him know that he can say it. ALSO make sure u get REALLY happy and reward him when he does go poop. :) good luck.

My daughter was SCARED to death to poop in the toilet. She saw a toy one of her friends had and wanted it. I asked her will you poop in the toilet for it. She said yea, when I get bigger. I went ahead and bought it and put it above the toilet. When I caught her pushing I asked if she wanted to get her toy and trying pooping in the toilet she said yes, did, and then said "that was easy!" She's done it ever since. I think it was a combination of bribery and being emotionally ready.
R.

An AWESOME product that help me potty train my 4 kids quickly/easily is a DVD called Potty Power - it shows other kids using the potty with music, interaction, and encouragement about becoming a "big kid with potty power." Your kids will love it! It's on the Toddlers link on the left side of the page: http://astore.amazon.com/motherandbabe0c-20/002-###-###-#....

Also, ditch the pull-ups, they're just glorified diapers that will just prolong the process and cost you more $. Try plastic pants over underwear - or have them go naked from the bottom-down - my son would not "mess himself" if he didn't have something to catch it in like underwear, etc.

Good Luck!!

this can be the hardest thing for some kids. It seems when they have to poop in a pullup or diaper its a comfort thing and takes longer. My son however would poop in his undeerware but didn't get the pooping thing down till 3 1/2. I did lots of potty sticker charts which worked wonders with pee but not as great on poop. It helped some.

What kind of potty is he using? We just got a new one from Target yesterday and it has a REALLY cushy foam seat. My daughter used it once and pooped in it. She has never pooped in a potty seat before!

http://www.safety1st.com/product.asp?productID=2634

A lot of children, boys in particular, are odd about giving their poop to the potty. It is something that they feel is theirs, and when it's in a diaper they don't feel they have lost it. (I know that sounds weird, but it's true). Not only is a small potty where he can see it and dump it in the potty himself afterwards a good idea, but you can also dump it from the diaper into the potty to show him where it goes. Eventually, though, he will decide to do it on his own anyway. Don't force it, but little encouragements like clapping when other members go poop in the potty, reinforce the idea. (I know it's embarassing to announce it every time you do, but the kids get the idea faster if they know Mommy and Daddy - and even Nana and Papa - do it, too).

I would suggest not using the pullups at night...he may be using them as a crutch...once we stopped using the pullups our three year old son became completely potty trained within a week with no more accidents. Hope it helps...let me know.

I had this exact problem with my daughter and the only thing that finally got her to poop in the potty was when I basically threw up my hands and pretended I didn't care. It had become such a power struggle, where she'd either wait until night time with the pull-up on, or she'd sneak off behind a corner or door somewhere if she had to do it during the day. I'd sit with her for over an hour before bedtime, reading every book imaginable numerous times, only to have her poop in the pull up 5 minutes later. I finally decided maybe she wasn't ready and I was driving myself crazy. She'd say, "should we try poop on the potty?" and I'd say, 'no, not tonight,' or 'whatever,' acting like I didn't care if she ever did it after all. Wouldn't you know, that stubborn little stinker started doing it on her own pretty much from that moment forward?!?! Then, I had to NOT do the big potty party and song-n-dance that I had tried before. I just acted like, "oh, that's nice, good job," as if I expected it to happen all along. I'd say, it's worth a try at least--sometimes it's their ultimate statement of control, especially when you get upset over it. Good luck!

my son did the exact same thing but two months before his third birthday we bought his last package of pull ups and told him that it would be his last one. That once they were gone we could not buy anymore since they were only for little ones and since he was going to turn three he was a big boy.

At the end of the pull ups he did hold it in for a day and a half but when he realized there was no other option but to go to the potty he did. Of course he did get a big prize for it but we also made it a very big deal on how proud we were and that he was offically a big boy.