Please. Help me. This has to end.
Its insanity.
I can’t seem to find a method that works to get Bridget to stop pooping her pants. She is averaging once a day. She lies to me about it, and she tries to hide it. When I ask her point blank if she needs to use the potty she’ll say no. . . 5 minutes later she’s had an accident.
Taking away PEZ dispensers hasn’t worked.
Taking away the privilege of playing with friends hasn’t worked.
Dave and I spent some time talking last night about all the possible reasons that she might be regressing so much. The best guess we have is that Dave isn’t around as much with his new school schedule. Changes like that are tough on kids. And despite the fact that he tries to spend as much time with her as he can when he’s home, it doesn’t compare to how much time and attention she got before he started summer school. We are guessing that the accidents are a method of getting more attention from daddy, even if it is negative attention. We spent some time last night trying to convince her that accidents make us sad, and that we are so much happier when she uses the potty. Hopefully that helps.
Our latest new attempt is to take away whichever toy she is playing with when she has an accident. We took her money away last night. And she’s hasn’t had her PEZ dispensers since last Thursday… though she asks for them back at least once a day.
Does anyone else have any suggestions? Have you guys gone through this with your kids??
Hi, all I know is that potty training sucks. My sister in law had a kid who was a pooper and what worked was really mean, but it worked. If he pooped his pants he would have to take a cold shower. So I tried it on Tyger and all it did was traumatize him and I have felt guilty ever since. So basically I have no advice… but i did reply to your comment on our blog so check it out!
I tried the cold shower thing too. I can’t remember if it worked but like Amy I felt bad after. Good luck, I hope you find something that works! Oh and thanks for the Perogie recipe
I’ll try the cold shower on Brakken… But i think cleaning his own poop out of his undies is gross to him.. So i think i’ll stick to that until it doesn’t work..
I made Max stand in the tub and take off his own poopy underwear and put the poop in the potty by himself. It always grossed him out! I was sure to remind him that poop belongs in the potty…not in our underwear. He only had to do this about 2 or 3 times and then he’s never had anymore poop accidents! Anyhow…GOOD LUCK!