My son is 4 years old and he's been off diapers for a while, except in the nights just to prevent wetting the bed. I have been having many problems since he does not want to poop in the toilet, he only pees. I ask him why he doesn't want to poop and he replies he's scared. I am getting very frustrated and I talk to him in a calm way and let him know it's ok, nothing bad is going to happen. Every morning when I wake him up he has poop in his diaper. I spoke about this to his pediatrician and she said I need to leave him without a diaper at night so he can feel soiled and not want to do it anymore. I tried, and he does not poop at all. My Mom told me its bad for him to hold pooping that long. I don't know what to do anymore, I am becoming very angry at myself, I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
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Try to get down to the "bottom" of it. What exactly is he afraid of? If there's a special snack he likes, reward him for using the toilet. Make a game of it, tell him the underwater mermen need some poop to fuel their boats or something. They are all sad since they have no fuel.
My daughter is nearly 1 year, she's in for a treat with all my crazy ideas.
My son rod the same thing. He still wore diapers at.night and would wait till he went to bed and had a diaper on to poop. So, I stopped putting diapers on Jim till after he went to bed. A few days of holding it, he started using the toilet and wore no more diapers!
I would try to get him to communicate to you why he is scared and go from there.Hopefully he gets over his fear, but I think he needs some help from you with it.Have you tired telling him to wake you at night when he has to go so you can go in the bathroom with him to keep him safe?Poor guy.I wonder what is scaring him.Good luck.
My niece is the same way. I'd just deal with it and I'd guess he'll get over it as he grows.
so what you can do is have there favorite toy in bathroom and let them play with it if they go bathroom in toilet.