Hi, DS has been daytime trained since 2.3, but still wears a nappy at night and a nappy at nap times until about four weeks ago. ~6/7 days a week he doesn't do anything in his pants, but 1-2/7 days a week there's either a wee at the top of the stairs or a poo in his pants. He really doesn't want to go back to pull ups and stars and choc fingers worked to start with, but are less effective now. (Just to clarify he's still in nappies at night).
Eg. today, ds was obviously not tired so he is allowed to get out of bed after I leave the room and play quietly by himself for a while instead of sleeping. Last week he did two consequetive poos in pants when allowed to do this, so today I said 'ppplllease call mummy if you need a poo and I'll take you to the loo'. He said several times that he would and low and behold I check on him 5 mins later and he's done one. He said it came out too quickly (but I mentioned this last wk so think he's saying the same thing), but when he sat to do a wee before naptime he said he'd needed a poo but it was 'too hard to do' and that he didn't need to do one any more. So I'm caught between thinking he did it on purpose (too lazy to call me) and that he didn't as it was quite loose.
Arrgh, how to get through to a 2.9yo! You're so sure they understand what you're asking them to do, but then they completely don't do it and you're left wondering why they didn't ask/call you etc.
I did get angry today and I feel so bad about it. He has never done a poo in his nappy at lunch times, only since moving to pants.
Any suggestions? Sorry it's such a long post. Just needed to get it off my chest! 