So... I have been potty training Ben since the middle of November and I am so tired of it. Ben is awesome at peeing in the potty. I usually have to remind him, but he keeps himself dry the whole day most of the time and that is great. Pooping on the other hand is another story. He refuses to even try and poop in the potty and I've tried all sorts of coersion. The latest thing is that we went to Toys R Us and he was able to pick out a few toys that he could have if he pooped in the potty. Those toys are sitting on top of the fridge tempting him everyday. He points at them and talks about how those are his toys. He has even pulled a couple chairs over to the fridge to try and get them down himself... but thankfully the top of the fridge is too high. So he seems excited about these toys and I really thought that we were going to have a breakthrough and he was going to try and "poop in the potty". But I was wrong. He still will hide in the closet and tell me to go away.
So I feel like I've been pretty patient, and I don't get mad at him whenever he goes in his pants... but then... last night my line was crossed.
Boyd was gone last night and I was getting Ben and Chase to bed. I had just given them a bath and Chase was all dressed, but Ben was running around naked. Ben and Chase were laughing and chasing eachother up and down the hall and I went to the kitchen to get Ben some milk. Gone for 10 seconds right...? When I came around the corner Ben had pooped on the floor! I gathered all my patience and told him it was okay, and I had him go in the bathroom and sit on the potty. I had picked up Chase, but hadn't really looked at him yet, and after I got Ben on the potty I realized Chase had poop on his hands and all around his mouth! (sorry for how disgusting this is) I freaked out. I was seriously crying while I was trying to clean up Chase and Ben kept saying, "Are you okay mommy?" "NO... I'm not okay! Never poop on the floor again! What do I need to do to make you poop in the potty?!"
Anyways... kind of funny now... kind of. But if anyone has any suggestions, or if you would be willing to try and figure this one out on your own... I'll gladly send Ben over. :)
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I think it's fair to have been grossed out. I probably would have thrown up seeing that. So, kudos to you.
I have a friend that sings a potty song just for pooping on the potty. It's the most hysterical thing ever, but it's worked with both kids who HATE pooping on the potty.
Google Potty poop song. You'll laugh hysterically.
Ohhhhhhh Kathryn, sorry no suggestions here. I just know that potty training is one of the most disgusting things about motherhood. I am potty training my twins right now and very grateful that we don't have new carpet. I think once all of our kids are old enough we will be ripping out all of the carpet in the house. We sing a few potty-time songs. "She is a super duper pooper" and we sing "Poo Poo in the potty" while doing a conga line up and down the hallway. I don't know how to help ya though, I have heard that boys are more difficult to train than girls and girls are difficult enough for me.
oh nasty! so sorry you had to deal with that. we have been having our own potty issues - not fun! one thing that i've heard helps is making them clean it up. because who wants to do that?! good luck!
I had a similar experience when I was trying to potty train my nephew. He pooped on the floor of the carport. That was outside though. Still, it made me mad. Anyway, does he know that he needs to poop before he poops? That's one thing my doc has me doing BEFORE we buy him any fun underwear. Also, we're trying to have him go to the bathroom twice a day at certain times like morning, just after he wakes up and at night time just before bed. So maybe right after bathtime, if he seems to be regular at that time, have him try just sitting on the potty and reading stories or singing songs. And after awhile when it becomes something regular with him, he poop in the potty without even realizing it. I don't know. I'm not an expert and frankly, I have no idea what I'm going to do when it's my turn to go that road. Good luck!!
So I refer to a nephew in the beginning of my comment, but for the rest, I'm referring to my son, Jackson. Wanted to clear that up. hehe
What a deal! I'm going to try and start potty training Aubrey in this next week. I'm not looking forward to it, but I'm 32 weeks pregnant so it's now or never!
If I find any great tips I'll pass them along.
Potty training Josie has been so difficult, that I'm not even attempting it with Simon until he totally just comes up with the idea himself. She is 3, and had poop on the floor (and the couch!) issues about a month ago, so finally we took all her dolls away and made her poop in the toilet to get them back. Poop anywhere else gets one taken away. We also had to do a sticker potty chart for successful experiences. On those rough days, I was thinking the same thing: "Will I ever think this is funny?"
I did the 3 day potty training Ebook with Ryan and it worked WONDERS! Though honestly the pooping thing took longer than 3 days b/c he would hold it in and only poop like once every few days, so it didn't happen enough for it to happen as quickly. He was completely pee trained in 2 days and I never even had to remind him after those 2 days to go pee. He did the pooping on the floor thing MANY times and it was gross. Sorry you're going through it... it's no fun! They figure it out eventually though. I do recommend the e-book though...
that is disgusting heeeeeeeelarious... thanks for sharing! :) I have no stories or advice on potty training... Fortunately Robyn was a breeze and Erik... .we're not even trying yet. HOWEVER- the other day Robyn told me that Erik had just "pooped" outside of his diaper. I went to take a look. Literally... he had a tail! Made entirely of fece! It was everywhere... on his forehead... on his nose... on his police car... on the rug... on the floor...
I was cracking up.
...and grossed out. All at once.
This mother thing is lovely... isn't it?
Good Luck. I hope you have some breakthrough after this incident...
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! and yet sooooo gross at the same time!!! I would be bawling my face off in frustration!
Leah isn't potty trained, but she is fairly poopy trained. I can tell (or she tells me) when she needs to go poopy and I set her on the potty and we look at a few books and I remind her to "push" and then she goes. Some days when she is particularly constipated, it takes some serious convincing to get her to push it out. Oh the joys. We ALWAYS make a big deal about it, she loves to flush it and wave bye bye to it, I usually give her a treat, and we call daddy and tell him what a big girl she is... the works.
The other day, she followed me into the bathroom when I really had to go, and as soon as she heard the little splash, she patted me on the knee and said "gwood gwirl, mommy!" in a little voice. So funny!
I do know that my mom used to roll up chocolatey peanut butter into balls or logs and would secretly drop them into the toilet when she was potty training one of my brothers. They were too scared to poop in the toilet, so she dropped fake poopies in there to make them think they did it and that it was easy and painless. Then she gave him a reward and told him that he could have another reward the next time too. Not sure how well it worked, but its worth a try!
Good luck!
The one thing I did to help DJ get the feeling for actually going on the toilet was adding prune juice to his apple juice. It doesn't take much...but it makes it softer and if you want to go all the way, make it liquid so it'll happen IN the toilet and he won't be afraid to go there.
I did the Potty Training Bootcamp ebook and it was THE best 6.00 I ever spent!!!
Have you tried a potty that's apart from the bathroom?? One that sits on the floor...put it in the living room and let him watch tv while sitting on it...he needs to be relaxed, and then once he's done it a couple times in the potty after telling you he needed to, then switch to the toilet.
Good luck! It does seem never ending...like my reponse...lol
It sounds like you have a great attitude about it. I couldn't help but laugh, so thanks for that. I heard if you make them help clean-up it can help. This will be a funny story when you have his fiance over and she reads this out of the blog book you make, my dad has a story of me with poop that he likes to share. It still embarasses me to this day!
I don't have any ideas for you. I worked at a day care and had to potty train 10, 2 year old boys. I have to say... each one was different. Nothing worked on two of them. I had to figure out something different for each of them. It just takes time. He will get it. For Rylie sticker charts worked best. Good luck! Hope everything is well at your house =)
I just finished potty training Brianna and I think it went pretty well, especially now I hear your story. However, my MaKenna was that way too and finally I had a doctor tell me to get her some favorite books when I knew it was coming and let her read until she did it. IT distracted her and it works. I have done it with all my kids and it is the best. Who doesn't want to read when they are on the pot anyway??? Well then put his toys in the bathroom. It will cause him to visually connect that the toy goes with going poop. He might say it but not connect the two until they are in the right place to to help him see that. GOOD LUCK!!!! If this does not help call me because I have another method that all my friends use and I have too....love it.
Lindz_e... I just want to say that you are a saint for potty training 10, 2 year old boys at the same time. I respect day care people.
Oh Kathryn...I'm so sorry. But also laughing inwardly. I'm sort of glad you've had a fun poop experience of your own...but sad for Chase that he was the victim. :) Good luck is all I can say!
Oh man, that was a good laugh! So sorry, I hate those moments. A few days ago Emma had made such a mess of herself with blueberries at breakfast that I threw her in the tub. After I got her all washed I just let her play while I finished getting ready for work. When I turned around to get her out she was on her tummy pretending she was a fish swimming....but, the tub was full of floating poop! As I tried to hold back from freaking out, she stood up, turned around, saw it and completely freaked out. I am so glad I had a rubber glove to fish that poop out with! :)
KATHRYN, I'm so sorry. I hate poop. I would've flipped out way before you did. I read the book "Toilet Training in Less than a day" and it was AMAZING. Alex was programmed for pee in 2 days and poop in a week. Goodluck.
I would have vomited. Seriously. But I have same problem with Hannah, so I dont know!! Hannah is great when it comes to peeing, but pooping is totally a different story!!! Let me know if you figure it out!!!
-Kim
how are things going now?
~sarah
One thing you might want to try that we did with Porter is peaches. For some reason peaches make the kids need to poop. So give him peaches when you want him to poop and I would say within an hour he will go. You just have to watch him for the signs.
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