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Is it wrong to let a child go naked in efforts to potty train him from pooping his underwear?
3 year old boy. Poops his pants just about daily. He will NOT go poop on the toilet. He goes pee just fine. But with pooping... he won't? He will pee in the toilet. Return to his room and then poop in his pants? He's going to be 4 in April. I've tried rewarding him with things, candy, & trips to fun places if he can poop in the potty but he has yet to see any rewards because he has yet to even attempt to poop on the toilet! This is extremely frustrating! He takes a shower every time he poops his pants. He used to hate showers, well now he loves them! What more can we do to help him use the toilet for pooping? & no, im not going back to diapers & pullups except for at night! So is it wrong if we're just at home, to make him go naked (as long as no one else comes over) so that he has no choice but to poop on the toilet?????
obviously it's either the floor or the carpet, which is white. But since he is 3 and has a brain, he knows better than to poop on the floor!
4 Answers
- Anonymous10 years agoFavorite Answer
i believe that this is wrong, but i can see your reasoning for turning to such a punishment. i think that you should ask him why he chooses not to use the toilet, he may have an actual reason for not doing so. Even if that reason may seem outlandish or stupid or made up to you, he may actually regard the toilet to be a scary object. Think about it: would you just sit down on or even turn your back on an object that can be thought to resemble a large mouth if you didnt know any better? he is only 3 and it is normal for such young children to be unable to entirely distinguish imagination from reality.
- Anonymous10 years ago
Whatever works. Another thing is to pay attention when he normally poops and sit him on the toilet yourself at around the right time.
- ?Lv 610 years ago
Perhaps it is time to sour the milk a bit.
It's all been fun and games till now and he hasn't needed to change or learn.
Learn his signals and make time to go back to the bathroom a few minutes after a pee. It could be he's just catching up with body and bowel movements.
Keep him with you for 15 minutes after urinating. If he gets 'quiet' or wants to be alone- pop him on the toilet with a book to read until he's ready to poop.
Leaving him naked will only give you him AND his location to clean up.
Source(s): Actually, no, he doesn't know better than to poop on the floor because he still pooping in his own pants. It really will take YOUR time, attention and guidance to move him to the next stage of life- no way around it. - TulipLv 710 years ago
Perhaps you are making too big of an issue of this and he is winning the game. Lay off for awhile and see what happens. Naked won't solve anything.