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Help needed in a certain part of potty training

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Lonelymum · 05/09/2005 20:20

Ds3, as some recent potty trainers here will know, is being potty trained. He seems to have got the weeing bit moreorless sorted. He is still having maybe an accident a day, but he does loads of wees in the potty or the loo, decided when he needs to go, wees on demand if we are about to go out etc.

However, the pooing bit just isn't coming good. So far, in four weeks of training, he has got maybe three poos in the potty. Of those, one was moreorless hit and miss, one was fine except he forgot to take his pants off first (!) and the third was lucky timing on our part.

Maybe it doesn't help that we have been living a very ourdoor life of late. We have been on Cornish beaches for two weeks, and when home, ds3 is frequently naked, running in the garden where he does most of his poos.

I remember ds1 had the same problem: he could control his weeing before he could his pooing and I can remember tearing my hair out with him, but I can't remember what finally worked with him. Anyway, he was a bit older than ds3 is and I think he was sorted within the four weeks that ds3 has been trying.

So, has anyone got any suggestions for how I could persuade ds3 to poo in the potty (or preferably the loo)? He just doesn't seem to see pooing as the same activity as weeing even though he knows that poos are worth 2 choccy buttons and wees only one!

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Lonelymum · 08/09/2005 12:48

Poo in loo achieved - well first one anyway, goodness knows where the next one will go! See thread entitled My son is a genius!

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