Oh Crap! Potty Training

routine. Children need time to discover the world around them. Downtime is not only good, it’s ...

they could have done. Let me tell you: we live in New England, and having a three-year-old who ...

resistance to actually sitting on the potty. Some children will say a variation of, “my ...

midwife, explains how the cervix needs to be open to effectively give birth. She also notes that it can ...

relative privacy of the diaper. When things don’t flow that smoothly, the parents confuse the delay ...

trick is to get your child sitting for a poop and all of sudden think of something you need to do ...

know you know what I’m talking about. Let’s look at why a child might be afraid of pooping on the potty ...

way he knows how, and then one day, you ask him to poop elsewhere. Do you see how this could ...

understand where the toilet flushes to (dang logic). And then we ask them to expose a very personal, vuln ...

becomes. It becomes harder and harder with passing time to get the kid to give this up. The resistance and ...

because it’s new. This dance and poop troubles never have anything to do with “readiness.” Mo ...

Obviously, don’t let your child handle the actual poop. But have him go get clean clothes and cha ...

trained. He would pee on his own, but pooping in his pants was a recurring issue. Rache ...

days, Sean was pooping on the potty just fine. For whatever reason, he just needed that ...

Consider whether your child has had any sort of rectal pain before. I’ve worked with all ...

you, they work wonders. I’ve had lots of kids drink the Magic Poop Juice down and d ...

inside your fist) but wants to come out, you tell me. When your poop is here (squeezing out of the ...

(like using a stuffed animal sentry or a “No More Monsters” spray). Same idea applies to potty tra ...

CHAPTER 11 Prior Attempts at Potty Training Over the years I’ve been called upon increasingly often to ...

“Kind of potty trained” “Mostly potty trained” “Clueless” The “child from hell” So let’s go through each cat ...