Poo Goes Home to Pooland Book

[endlesslove]

For all the parents who this book has worked wonders on their children...do I read this only when DS is sitting on the toilet or lots of times during the day. I'm not sure whether its best to keep it a toilet book!

If anyone can offer advice...DS has been potty training for a month...he clicked within three days that he does wees on the potty and now only wants to use the toilet and is starting to want to stand up. He was dry at night straight away (he is in pull ups).

However with poos he is pettrified, he tells me non stop that he needs to do a poo so put him on the toilet and as soon as his bottom touches the seat he says his finished without doing anything. He also wants his bottom wiped when he does a pop. He is holding poo and eventually he can't hold it any longer and does it in pants. Very annoying when I have normally sat him on toilet 5 minutes before!

As a result from the poo thing he is now not doing so well with wees and having accidents and he is not dry at night. I just feel DS is going completely backwards.

I have tried stickers, choc magic stars, special Ben10 pants (which he chose and he is allowed a new pair out of the set everytime he poos in the toilet), threatening nappies which he really doesn't want, shouting . I'm at my wits end and need some advice. DS is 2.11.

Thanks all x

[spiderlight]

I just read it to DS on the sofa after I'd printed it out. He loved it and asked for it three times in a row, and then the following morning we were in business! He was exactly the same, knowing when he wanted a poo but then saying 'I don't want to! I don't want to!' as soon as he was on the potty and hiding to poo in his pants at the next opportunity , but for some reason the Pooland story just magically worked!

[Roo83]

I read it on the potty and off, also made a point of reading it too him after he'd done a poo in his pants (although this only happened 2/3 times after introducing this book). We talked about it all the time though-after doing a poo he still says 'poo's going home to his mummy and daddy, he's going to play poo games' so it obv. sank in!!

[endlesslove]

Thanks for your messages...have been reading it today but his doing his norma trick of saying he needs to go but as soon as I put him on toilet he says his finished without doing anything. Very annoying! Will perservere though with the book! x

[somethinganything]

spiderlight where did you print this out from? I've heard people talking about a pdf you can download but can't seem to find it anywhere. Thanks lots

[roomforthree]

Here

[bumblebear25]

Or here :) nannynannynannynannynanny.blogspot.com/2012/02/poo-postman-pat-and-dummy.html

[ZucchiniPie]

We have the same problem - and unfortunately Poo Goes Home To Pooland isn't having the desired effect, despite the fact DD likes being read it.

The whole thing with her saying she needs to poo, then not being able to stay on the potty for more than a couple of minutes and usually being really distracted while she's there... does anyone have any tips? The one time she has managed to poo on the potty was with DH last Thursday (and we've only had one other poo since then in a waking up nappy) and he said he just kept her sitting there for 25 minutes. I don't know how he did it as I was out at the time, but I do know she was absolutely busting at the seams so I think it was partly lucky timing. But anyway I'm a bit wary of making her sit for hours on end in case that in itself adds to her aversion. What's the received wisdom on making a child stay on the potty until they poo, if you know they definitely need to go?