Wednesday, 12 August 2009
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Potty training woes!
Sean has been potty training since he was two-and-a-half. He has had plenty of bad days and good days. I am pretty confident to think he is potty trained. He still goes to bed with pullups on because we tried to let him sleep in underwear. He woke up in the middle of the night each night, he was in underwear, soaked. So we decided to at least let him sleep in pullups.
Well lately he has seemed to be using this to thrash out against us. He will get upset with us and run into his room and look at his penis and pee on the floor. I will ask him to go to the bathroom and pee, and he will crawl behind the couch and pee instead. He will even sit on the floor and watch himself poop. He then comes to me or goes to the bathroom and grabs toilet paper to clean it up or will come to me to ask for a diaper wipe.
I would like to say he is pretty potty trained. I am pretty confident with it. I am just confused as to why he has to take it out on our carpet! Haha. We had just shampoo'ed his floor and two days later he pooped on the floor in his room, twice. Gah!
I don't want to punish him, because most people would probably say he isn't fully potty trained. But we will go two or three days with no accidents and he can go out in the same outfit all day without an accident (pooping is about the only accidents he still has). I mean, he'll start to pee, but he stops to let me know and we go to the bathroom. But at home, he doesn't do that... well on occasions he'll go to the bathroom himself to pee, but most days I walk into his room after he has been in there by himself an hour playing, there will be two pee spots.
Anyone got any advice? Should I start to punish him... or should I continue with him like he is still potty training?
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Comments (4)
Sorry. No kids. No advice.
He's still potty training, so no punishment just yet...like everything else, it's one step forward and half a step back. You're lucky to be as far along as you are with him! My 2 1/2 daughter won't even attempt to potty train. She picks out her own outfits, dresses herself, feeds herself, and has done all this a long time now. But use the toilet? Not her. We've tried to bribe her, (worked with her big brother) but she just doesn't care. My mom in law was staying with us for a week and I thought for sure my daughter would let her toilet train her. Nope. Ask her if she wants to be a big girl and use the toilet, the answer is invariably, NO. I am a little afraid I'm gonna be changing diapers for the rest of my life sometimes.
Deep breaths and lots of patience. Oh, and a good carpet cleaner. LOL
Just about the time you are ready to pull your hair out and decide he will never get it will be the moment he totally gets it.
@blur_girl - Yeah that is what I figured but part of me was thinking maybe he is doing it just to defy me because he knows it makes me upset. He is learning to push my buttons.
@gwacemom - I am trying. There are many days I just want to go to someone else's house and drop him off and then come back home. Haha. He is driving me bonkers!