Bottoms

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Having just hung up a load of washing and put some in the drier to then discover it was only rinsed and not washed, what can I do to get my 9 year old to wipe his bottom until it is clean?

I am having to rewash 2 wash loads and I am not happy.

Wipes?

Yep, we have those and it is the same whether there are wipes or just tissue. He is using loads of wipes, though not sure where?

Change his diet and fluid intake? If he's leaving behind that much in his pants, then he may be a bit constipated (resulting in some of his poo oozing out and making a mess, as it leaks round the harder, pellet-like bits, or even in him doing pooey farts in his pants...). It also goes to show how hard it actually is to wipe your bottom efficiently - especially since you can't actually look to check how you've done afterwards! (And if it is surprisingly runny, then he'll inevitably get a skid mark running up his bottom if he wipes too hard, because the paper will slip... Once this has happened, I don't see how he could possibly rectify the situation without the help of a mirror to see where he's actually smeared it to...).

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His diet is fantastic. He is changing his pants constantly. He is just a sod for any kind of personal hygiene. Wouldn't do his teeth or bathe if we didn't make him.

You did say he was using loads of wipes, though. My ds1 is hopeless at wiping his bottom and always leaves a bit behind (unless it was the sort of poo that didn't really leave any mess on his bottom in the first place). It never ends up smeared on his pants, though, it just makes his bottom itchy... Hence me thinking it's the consistency of your ds's poo that is the real problem, not the fact that he is leaving a little bit behind after he's wiped. If you want to have any effect on this, therefore, I still think you need to work out what it is in his diet that is making his poo so squidgy, or causing him accidentally to release some poo when he farts, prior to or immediately after going to the toilet (ie the skid marks may not be the result of improper wiping at all...).

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I wouldn't know where to start.

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How many times should he be going a day?

He really is a typical boy who would prefer not to shower so still think a bit of it is laziness. I will check how he is though.

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