My three year old is potty trained?

Question

my just a few weeks ago started pooping his pants. when you smell it he starts to cry and runs and hides. he is not sick. he is just lazy..... or i don't know.

Answer 1

he's not potty trained....he need to grow up...dont change him when he craps on himself...make him go to the restroom....make him before he makes stool...

Answer 2

you have to encourage him to use the potty... did you ever make him a potty chart... give him a start for p**p and a happy face for pea... they like that.... dont ever get after him for pooping his pants it will scare him and he will think he is doing something wrong...  hope i helped

Answer 3

Some times chidren will do this if there is a sudden change in life. Has he started at a new school ? Are you having a baby, or did you just have one? Sometimes children see the extra attention that a child who is not potty trained recieves and become jelous. Another reson children do this is because they feel the need to control something.With 3 yr olds there is little in their world that they have true control over one is the potty the other is food. Children will try to show that they have power over a situation by going in their pants or refusing to eat. Additionaly some children become so focused in what they are doing that they feel that the bathroom isnt important enough for them to stop what they are doing. Whatever the cause may be is hard to say, but here are some solutions that have worked for me with differnet children.

With my own son ( who is now 5) we used thomas the train -- when casey made it to the potty on time with out a reminder he go a train -- when he went in his pants he lost a train. He was done in about a week. ( I know this gets pricy, but maybe you could have him work his way up to something special.) Rember that most children need some sort of visual reminder to track their progress. Positive renforcement works wonders.

You may also want to check out the book Everyone Poops ( it can eliminate some of the shame that children sometimes feel from pooping.)

In my preschool classroom parents have taken children to  build-a-bear. The store sells big boy/ girl undies for bears - you could talk to your child about getting to wear undies - and the bear get to wear undies too.

Try a potty party -- when your child stops having accidents you can throgh them a party! Make going to the bathroom a celebration -- so your child will view it as getting something rather than missing out on something.

It takes 28 days to breaka behavior in a child -- that menas that Mom and Dad need to work together and keep the same potty routine for 28 days! ( The same is true for napping or binkys/ wubbys/ and whatever else you are trying to teach your chid. Rember to do something visual  - even if its just making ahappy face on the clalendar when he does a good job!! Rememer that its 28 days in a row!!!

Hope this helps

Good Luck

-- a fellow mother and preschool teacher

Answer 4

ya u should just encourage him to go.....dont get mad then it makes them cry even MORE but just like teh other girl said make a chart wwith smilys and stars i think that would soooo work

Answer 5

Well you need to encourage him to go pee and p**p on the toliet

I just got done training my 3 year old nephew he came to visit me for 2 weeks and he is basically trained!

My brother told me that he has been asking for these dinosaurs things so i printed some pictures out and hung them on the mirror and i told him that if he goes p**p and pee on the toilet he will get some dinosaurs

So He went pee just fine on the toliet he would get up and go to his little toliet and go pee on his own.. we would make him sit in there at random times and say let me hear your tinkles

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but anyways

he went p**p a couple of times in his underwear but we told him that if he keeps doing that no dinosaurs

so he finally did it on the toliet and We bought him this huge dinosaur

and he just kept going and everytime he went p**p on the toliet he would come out and ask for a dinosaur and he would get one.

So all you need to do is bribe him and If he really wants a certain toy try that

but if he does go p**p on the toliet and you get him the toy or whatever make sure he knows that he has to continue to go potty on the toliet otherwise the toy would get taken away

i hope i helped

good luck!

Answer 6

Was he using the potty before?? I know some kids regress for a while after they potty train. I know it's frustrating but you just have to stay consistent with him. Ask him like every thirty minutes if he needs to go p**p in the "big boy potty"....And then reward him with his favorite candy when he does use the potty. Make sure you encourage him, and really emphasize the "big boy" stuff...He is going to have accidents...when that happens, just say "Its okay...But you know that if you use the big boy potty you get a prize!" Hope that works for you.

Answer 7

he's not lazy, i think he's more worried about your reaction. i would say to encourage him to go-have a sticker chart, some sort of reward..you definitely always want to make a huge positive deal out of it when he does go in the potty :) hope this helps!