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What to expect with potty training a 3 yr boy with PDD NOS?

I began potty training when my son was 1 1/2. I tried it off and on because he just wasn't ready. Now he's 3 1/2 and he's trip trained. He'll potty if you sit him on the toilet, but he won't communicate that he needs to go. He can communicate just fine, but he has no interest in telling anyone when he needs to go. He's perfectly comfortable sitting in soiled clothes. I give him stickers when he potties in the toilet, candy when he's dry, but he has yet to get anything for telling someone he has to go because he hasn't told anybody yet. He says peepee or poopoo AFTER he soiled himself.......sigh. He soils himself 4 to 5 times a day......I scrub carpets and wipe floors everyday and wash a lot of laundry. How long is this supposed to freakin take!?!?!?! What other ideas can I try before I go insane??????

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  • 8 years ago
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    Children should be completely toilet trained by 14 to 18 months. The diaper companies are the ones who say let the child do it on their own. They profit by having parents keep their children in diapers the longer the better profits. When I was a child my mother had to use cloth diapers and they had to be washed everyday, often by hand because most families did not have washing machines. Even those who did had machines they were wringer washers and had to do most of the labour by hand. Early Maytag washers had gasoline engines to run them but that is beside the point.

    If a child doesn't learn early to be toilet trained they become lazy and don't care if they learn or not. I would think this is the problem in your case. Why should they learn to use the toilet if mama will change my diaper when it is dirty. Put him in regular underwear and pants. Tell him if he pees or poops in them he will just have to wear them like that or he can get himself to the toilet first. Yes, he will pee and poop in the underwear a few times but if you hold fast and just let him be he will soon learn he had better get to the toilet or have to wear wet and dirty clothes. Quit being his servant be his parent.

  • 5 years ago

    I on no account genuinely had this concern, I had a girl, and she or he was once, good, easier than this anyway. But i'll offer some advice, if you wish to have it. Hold him indoors for a couple weeks. Let him run around with or with out clothes on, something he prefers. If he has a BM on the ground, enlist his aid in cleaning it up. Don't put it him on a guilt shuttle on whatever, simply make it clear that every time he poops on the ground, he'll support clean it up. Give lavish praise for any time that he uses the potty. If necessary, name up your husband at work and have him reward your son too. Don't worry about potty training in a single day. Expectantly in a couple weeks the challenge will beef up. It seems like he simply needs to be in manipulate of the difficulty. So you want to make it extra appealing for him to do what you need him to do, with out hanging any additional stress on him. Just right good fortune! And yes, someday he'll be proficient, he is not going to still be pooping on the floor in institution or something.

  • Sean M
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    Back away completely. Take a break, go back to diapers, and start collecting data. It's all about understanding when and where he soils, then planning around those times.

  • 8 years ago

    a. go insane

    b. potty train him

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