Potty Training - Jonesboro, AR

Have you tried to get a booster seat for the toilet...some children don't like the poop in the potty idea.

I am the same way. I have children from 26 to 16 and now I have a 3yr old. I was having some trouble potty training too so I called my niece who is a nurse and has a daughter she recently potty trained. Anyway, she said, get a box and every time they try they get a sticker to decorate the box and every time they are successful they get a treasure from the box. We went to the dollar store without her and picked out some cute stuff she would like. Worked like a charm.
B., mother of six

I am having the exact same problem with my almost 4 yr old son. You are not alone. We are also trying everything to make this happen. He has a 5 yr old brother he sees go all the time but he just doesn't care. Our pediatrician keeps reassuring us that you don't see kids in junior high in diapers. lol. I am wondering if we will be the first. Hang in there.

Have you tried putting her on the big potty with a potty seat on it? When you see her squat down in her pull up then take her to the big potty and say lets poopoo in the big potty like the big girls do and like mommy does. Then hand here a magazine, a fav. book , or a catalog with pic. of toys and ask her to show you everything she wants for christmas and her birthday. I don't know if it would work for you, but it worked for me. My daughter was 13 mo. old when she learned to potty and wiper her on bottom. My children love to look at all the toys. I have a daughter that is 6 and a son that is 4.

D. Laubach

I had a nephew with this issue until he was about 6, one of the suggestions my sister got was to give him a fiber supplement. The kind that dissovles in any liquid, you just want to make sure she drinks plenty of fluids, otherwise it will backfire and cause constipation, but if she drinks a lot that will also help her not become constipated. I've also heard of using small doeses of miralax-(at any drug store)it makes it easier to go if she's held it for a couple days.
You may go back to the whole reward system as consitently as possible. When my daughter was having accidents we took a toy away each time she had an accident. When she pooped in the toilet she got one back. At the end of a full week with no accidents she got a special treat. She's been doing great since then. Hope some of this helps.

My son refused to poop on the potty until I told him only BIG BOYS who poop on the potty go to "school". And that was all it took for him to start using the potty. He was done with in the week and started Mom's Morning out a few months later. My daughter was a bird of another feather. I had to find her currency and it was just being tuff. We tried toliet treats - we tried stickers with "happies" at the end of the day/week. In the end it was a control thing and I just told her "no more diapers for poop" and stuck to it. It worked. The potty seat on toliet helped alot!

My daughter needs a book, something, to distract her while on the potty otherwise she won't poop, just pees & gets off. You might try something like that to see if simply staying on longer will do the trick.

I have worked in child care for years and have three beautiful children of my own. Potty training was very different for each of them. My youngest son, who is now 14, was my most difficult. He was not interested, he was much to busy to have time to go to the potty. We bought Batman underwear and every diaper change I would ask him, "Big boy pants or diaper", he answered everytime "diaper". I would put the diaper on him, not making a big deal but simply say, "I know one day you are going to choose the Batman underwear and be a big boy", kiss him and move on. One day he surprised me and chose the underwear, he had one accident that day and from then on potty trained. I think the best advice to give is this, your child will potty train. But it will be on their time table. The more pressure you feel, the more pressure your child feels so the longer it will take. Keep smiling, excuse the pun, this to will pass!!
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I had this problem with my son, holding it for days and days. I was at my wits end and spending literally all day with him in the bathroom. out of the blue one day his 18 month old sister said she needed to poo poo and i put her on the toilet. My son watched her go and then we made a big deal cheering and telling her how big she was and what a good girl she was. Something must have sunk in or clicked with my son, because twenty minutes later he ran to me with his pants around his ankles and wanted me to come to the bathroom and see. He had pretty much pooped his weight in the toilet and we never had a problem again. It was as if he just needed to see another very small kid do the job to really believe he could too.

This would be pretty hard to orchestrate, but it's what worked for us and incidentally, it's what worked for my sister-in-law too. She has pretty much the same thing happen with her kids.

My mom had a really hard time trying to get my brother to poop in the toilet (back then we didn't use the potty chair LOL) and she finally asked him why he wouldn't poop there. His response ~ IT'S TOO PRETTY TO MESS UP. Then for one reason or another he got really loose stools and she just plopped him down on it and he couldn't hold back. Then she flushed and let him see that it went back to being just as pretty as before. He never had a problem with it after that, as a matter of fact he's a plumber now, so I guess he still thinks they're pretty.
The whole point to this is that you might try asking her WHY she doesn't want to do this. The answer may surprise you and be something you can easily deal with.
Good luck

P., my name is C., I have a 3 yr old doing the same thing, so if you get a good idea Please let me know, my daughter even goes as far as to pooping all down the hallway:( she will pee all day but no pooping she says it scares her! Anyways please if you get answers let me know...

I had this same problem with our 3 year old son. He was peeing in the potty just fine but would hold in poop unless he had a pull up on. My husband and I got frustrated, but finally decided to just back off. He got pull ups at night and in the morning, and nap time. He came to me one day and wanted to play his brohers leapster, so I decided to make up a sticker chart and told him that when it was full (he got a sticker every time he pooped on the potty) he would get his own leapster. This got him all excitted ands things started to get going, he has some accidents but we didn't make a big deal. The more full his chart got the better he got, until eventually we had no accidents. Once he was done and got his leapster we told him he was a big boy now and had to use the potty all the time. Everything has been great since! Sometimes he holds it in for a day or two but we just give him some Miralax and he eventually goes on the potty. Miralax is safe, we used it for our oldest when he has Incopresis which is a disorder where kids subconciously hold it in. It usually stems from a past experience, for my son it started after he had a bad case of gastrointeridus.
Good luck and just remember that when you get frustrated and stressed about it it effects them and holds them back more, I know this from experience, just let her go at her own speed but always suggest the potty.
Good luck!!

Maybe it's medical. Has your daughter been to see a pedatrician? Will she potty on the pot when she urinates? Is she in daycare? If so, are there problems with other kids at daycare? I don't understand how she can hold it if it's not a medical concern. Has her diet been reviewed by a pedatrician nutritionist? Does she drink plenty of fluids? I am sorry for your dilema. I hope you find a resolution.
Also have you tried bowel training? Recognizing her bowel habits and having her to sit on the pot at those times? And giving her rewards whenever she poops on the potty?

You can safely give her mineral oil to prevent constipation. She won't be able to hold it in. I suggest you start her on mineral oil, then take away the pull ups (don't give her any underwear, shorts, or pants either -- just a long t-shirt or dress. She'll have to use the potty or go on the floor. If she makes a mess, make her clean it up and take away her privileges. Tell her the rule is everyone has to use the toilet, and anyone who doesn't will have consequences. Hope that helps.