My daughter is 3 and has been potty trained for wees for almost a year. Wears knickers during the day, and nappies overnight. She is very good at telling us that she needs a wee and doesn't have wee accidents.
However she refuses to poo in the potty or the toilet. For the past six months we've tried :
- letting her wear a nappy but insisting she sits on the potty / toilet (she has her own seat) as she goes, but she refuses. If she can't stand up and walk around while pooping she won't go
- refusing her a nappy all together, she just holds it in for days and her behaviour isn't great until she's finally pooped
- reward, promising her any toy or sweet she wants, but she just says she doesn't want it
- (not helpful I know) but reminding her she's the only one in her pre school class that uses nappies (it is true though)
- poo goes to pooland
- a potty training book, forget the name but there's a girl in it called Prudence
- potty training videos
- praising her for every wee she does
- she's watched me poop
- putting her on the potty / toilet at regular intervals but she's now refusing to do that unless she needs to go
- letting her watch whatever she wants on kids YouTube on her dad's tablet if she sits on the toilet, and YouTube Kids is banned in this house
I can't physically force her to sit on the toilet or potty, so if she says no then what can I do ? Is it ok to just wait this out ? Will she be in nappies till she's 5 ????? She starts reception next September.
Currently we are only allowing her to poo in the bathroom (in a nappy), and when she's done we drop her poo into the toilet and flush it. This is the only thing she's agreed to do.
I'm tired of worrying over it but she is literally the only kid in her class that isn't fully potty trained. They don't even have nappy changing facilities in her class, so it's lucky she only poops when she comes home around 6pm.