Underpants of Pull-ups?

GO TO DOLLAR STORE AND BUY 10 TOYS OR WHAT EVER HE WOULD T HINK IS NEAT AND TAKE HOME AND WRAP THEM UP AND PUT ON THE FRIG. wHEN HE GOES POOP IN THE POTTY HE GETS A PRESENT. BY THE TIME ALL 10 ARE GONE HE WILL BE DOING IT AUTOMATICALLY.

YOU MIGHT TRY THENEW LEVI DIAPERS OR PULL UPS AND SEE IF HE WILL KEEP THEM CLEAN BECAUSE THEY ARE SO NEAT.

GOOD LUCK

M. B IN BOISE ID

Depends on what you want to clean - either way you are doing some cleanup. So if pull-ups cost more and you don't want the extra expense, use underwear. If you don't mind the expense of pullups, use them. However, IF he starts using it as a diaper for the #1 he has already mastered, then you need to make a choice.

My son is 4.5 and we still use pull-ups at night. He sleeps so deeply that he doesn't always wake up to go #1. I made a choice - would I rather clean sheets or throw out a pull-up? I choose pull-up.

Personally, I would stick to good old underwear! I know it is horrible to clean, but Pull Ups will more than likely cause regression and then you have to start all over again. I'm still trying to get my 2 1/2 year old girl potty trained, but I know if I ever get to where you I'm not going to be using Pull Ups. The only time would is at bedtime.
Just an idea that worked for my friend to get her son to go #2 on the potty...Let him pick out a brand new toy and place it on the back of the toilet(unopened), and when he goes #2 in the potty with no accidents for a week; he gets the toy. Her son was the same age as yours and this really worked for them.
Best of luck to you!

My son used pull-ups while he was working on #2 potty training. He never had any confusion or regression whatsoever, with regard to #1. He would ALWAYS take his pull-up off to go #1 on the potty. And as far as the pull-up being "permission" to poop in his pants, I am sure that's the case sometimes. But it didn't seem to be so for my son. He seemed to relate the pull-up to underwear, not diapers. He tried not poop in his pull-up, and was disappointed in himself when he did. It wasn't a very long time between #1 training success, and #2 training success, so maybe that's why, but for us, pull-ups were fine.

I'm in the same boat, so I hope you get good suggestions!

If he is in underwear I would not go back, that will not encourage him to progress. Start making him clean his own mess, that should encourage him more. Reward him by making a big deal about it when he does do it right. He knows what he is doing, so right now it is about him keeping control. Do not get mad, or even talk to him when he goes in his pants, except to tell him to go clean himself up. When it is no longer fun to control you through this behavior he will change it.

When my son did this I sat him down and we drew pictures of him eating (stick figures ...), his digestive tract (squiggle) and food passing along then leaving his body from his behind. This got a few giggles, but so what! While doing this we talked about how food is eaten to provide energy for his body and as the body uses the good stuff from food, it creates poop from the leftovers and this must leave our bodies or we will get sick. And then we drew a potty (just a circle) with poop in it - and talked about how this is the best and ONLY place we poop - and that only big boys and girls can go poop on the potty! A wall chart with fun stickers also helped ALOT - every time my kid pooped in the potty he got a sticker to put up on the wall chart. Each time he pooped his pants, that square was left blank so we could count his successes and see his accidents clearly - once there are no empty spots (like a weeks worth) we took our son to the Children's museum as a reward (we talked alot about how he would get a reward if he kept pooping in the toilet - we offered him 3 options and he chose the children's museum.)
Stick with the undies ---- pull-ups are for babies (hehehe) LOL!

I vote for underpants. We had the exact same problem with our daughter. We had her in pull-ups and she wold never poop on the potty. I chose a day on the calendar and said "this is the day that big 3 years olds don't wear pull-ups anymore, so when this days comes we're going to wear panties from then on." Periodically I would show her where the day was and that it was coming up. We switched and she had 2 bowel accidents and that was it. She also hated how the poop felt in panties and was really upset by it.

Good luck!

For my kids, pullups were used the same way as diapers and never worked.

Plus they cost more and they are not as abosorbent, so when the kids had accidents, it was extra gross to clean it up!

I gave my kids prizes for going #2.

Pull-ups are permission to poop your pants. They basically are for your benefit, not his. Explain to him that he can poop his pants as long as he wants to, but from now on, it will be his job to do the clean-up. Then supervise only, don't help. After a few days of washing out his underwear, cleaning his butt, and changing his clothes, he will decide that he's ready to get on with it. Remember, no disappointment, no guilt trips, no eye-rolling and "not again!", just the facts, Ma'am.

Underpants, pull-ups are just diapers that don't have tabs... kids know that too.

I would keep useing underpants. I used pull ups only at night. Also my son got tired of the mess too and eventually started going on the potty to avoid the clean up.

you can put him back in pull ups. my oldest wouldn't use the toilet for #2 until he was 4. i hate cleaning poop out of underwear. it was difficult for my husband and i to control our frustration over this. so to eliminate some of the burden for ourselves, we put our son back in pullups. but he continued to use the toilet to pee. one day he just decided to use the toilet for #2 and has been good with it ever since.

We went straight to underpants and only had # 2 accidents consistently for about two weeks. Never made a big deal about the clean up - but since taking off all pants and washing off her bum and legs if necessary is quite an ordeal, she preferred going #2 on the potty pretty soon.
Two more things that helped: I put plenty of fiber in her diet (more than usual) to make it easy for her to go. I also gave her a small treat for the first few weeks when she did go.
She did ask for a diaper to go # 2 in the beginning, but I had no more and told I could not buy more.
Good luck!

I think it would depend on your kido. My daughter hated going poop on the potty and would wait ALL day until we put on her pull ups for the night. Then she would try to clean herself and make a huge mess. Finally my husband ( I was working nights) got tired of cleaning her and the room (eww) up so he told her that we didn't have any more pull ups and we started to work on going through the night without accidents. When she wasn't given the option she had no problems using the potty. So depending on your little guys personality it could be a help or a step back. Go with your gut. Good luck

I'm surprised to see so many votes for underpants. I suggest the pull ups. Any regression would likely be an issue only for going #1 because he would still feel dry in the pull ups. But #2, well, he'll feel that in pull ups. I don't think confusion or regression is an issue here for what you describe.

I say stick with the underpants. It's a pain but pull ups are a bit confusing. I only had one of my kids with a poopy problem, I had him help me with his underpants so he understood what was going on. Ultimately, my husband taught him to use the toilet by showing him how to poop outside when we were camping. I have no idea why it worked but we got home from the trip and he used the toilet from then on. I have a feeling it was just a matter of being ok with a foreign object coming out of his body. Once he did it outside he was fine with it.

Maybe you just go camping. = )

Good luck.

BAN PULLUPS.
They are no more than an expensive, landfill-filling product that the diaper companies hope we will all buy so they can keep us as their consumer pets.

on the other hand, be patient with lil toddler panties.. they may be messy a lot.. but you can have your almost-4-YO do the dirty work. CALMLY, just have him fill the sink with soapy water, and scrub with an old toothbrush until its clean. This works for some, and breaks them of the habit ;)

How many days do you want to spend washing bedding? Your child is not really old enough to stay dry at night so if you want to wash bedding all the time then put underwear on him or put overnight pull ups on him so you can have a break from the monotony of washing the bedding. If he stays dry it doesn't matter if he has a pull up on or underwear. Dry is dry and urine soaked is wet.

My #3 child was the same way. He was perfect at going potty in the toilet but WOULD NOT poop in the toilet. We stuck with underpants for a long time. Until I would just be mad that he had pooped in them AGAIN and we decided to just go to pull-ups for awhile. That way I didn't have to scrape poop out of the underpants, but the pull-ups allowed him to still easily pull them down to pee. It took him awhile still to get it, but he is now completely in underpants. :)