toby
03-17-2008, 07:22 PM
DS is 3 years 4 months. He is very strong willed (is this the polite term?!)...
He started wearing underwear when he went to preschool in September. I will skip some of the horrors over the past 6 months involving poop, but we are now at the point where he will poop in the potty all the time and pee in the potty when he feels like it/when he remembers. He still wears a diaper at night.
Deep breath. Timed potty breaks, suggestions to go potty etc have become a battle of wills- I think that it has made it worse. He was mildly interested in the potty chart for a while, but he doesn't care that much. He does not mind being in wet pants. When he is naked he also sometimes pees in the potty and sometimes in the toilet. I have been through the naked for a week at home strategy as well as a billion other ones written about.
Lately I have backed off and try to not say anything other than to remind him to listen to his body. He continues to poop in the potty, pee in the potty once or twice a day and wet his pants 2-4 times. I am doing a fairly good job of keeping my cool, but I am feeling so angry and frustrated and helpless.
I am wondering about putting him in pull ups in the afternoon and telling him that if he would like to wear underwear, then he needs to go in the potty. My guess is that he won't care and that he will be wearing pull ups and peeing in his pants forever.
What would you do?? Thanks for listening.
He started wearing underwear when he went to preschool in September. I will skip some of the horrors over the past 6 months involving poop, but we are now at the point where he will poop in the potty all the time and pee in the potty when he feels like it/when he remembers. He still wears a diaper at night.
Deep breath. Timed potty breaks, suggestions to go potty etc have become a battle of wills- I think that it has made it worse. He was mildly interested in the potty chart for a while, but he doesn't care that much. He does not mind being in wet pants. When he is naked he also sometimes pees in the potty and sometimes in the toilet. I have been through the naked for a week at home strategy as well as a billion other ones written about.
Lately I have backed off and try to not say anything other than to remind him to listen to his body. He continues to poop in the potty, pee in the potty once or twice a day and wet his pants 2-4 times. I am doing a fairly good job of keeping my cool, but I am feeling so angry and frustrated and helpless.
I am wondering about putting him in pull ups in the afternoon and telling him that if he would like to wear underwear, then he needs to go in the potty. My guess is that he won't care and that he will be wearing pull ups and peeing in his pants forever.
What would you do?? Thanks for listening.