Poopy Training
Posted on December 19th, 2006 in On Parenting
Yes, you heard that right. Not potty training. Poopy training.
It seems as though my youngest daughter has complete and total control over her bowels. I don’t know how she does it, but she can literally tell herself when to go poops and when not to. As an example…
My wife and I have recently begun toilet training with my daughter. She picked up rather quickly on how to sit down and go pee on the toilet. No problem, she was an old pro at that in a matter of a few days. And when we started putting her in underwear instead of diapers, she would consistently remind us that she needed to go potty, then she’d run to the bathroom, set up her ‘ducky seat’ (a mini-toilet seat for toilet trainers), sit down and take care of business.
However, she would literally go for days without making poops. Three, perhaps four, days later, she would have a meltdown because she needed to go poops so bad but she would not go on the toilet. She would only go in a diaper. This was, to say the least, frustrating as she knows when she has to go, but she makes a concerted effort not to go. And for no other reason that she believes she cannot make poops into the toilet.
So my wife and I tried something. After researching a bit on the internet, we ran across a technique that seems to be moving us in a forward direction. We told our daughter that if she ever needs to go poops to tell us, so we can put a diaper on her and take her to the bathroom. The first time, we just had her stand in the bathroom. That went fine. The second time we had her actually sit on the toilet (still in her diaper) and make poops that way. That is also working out very well. We are also offering her treats and such for doing a good job.
So far we have been at this for a few days. I think with the progress I am seeing, there is a chance that this kid could kick the diaper habit very soon. And wouldn’t that be just the most awesome thing? One kid in diapers to go, and then we are done. After literally ten years of children in diapers (quite literally, with the exception of about four months between kid two and kid three) we are that close to being a diaper free household (unless I become incontinent and start needing diapers, but that is for another topic on another day).
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