than pooping while sitting. Fourth, going from pooping in a diaper to
pooping in a potty can be freaky as hell. Your patience is required.
Your child has no notion yet of the beauty of a clean bum. It’s okay;
he’ll get there.
Think about your poop. You know those gigunda poops? The ones
that make you feel like you lost five pounds in one sitting? Personally
I love those poops, but imagine how they feel to a small child. Shoot,
it must feel like all her insides are falling out. Poops can be scary. To
make them a little less so, I encourage parents to let their children
empty their own small pot into the big toilet. When you do this,
you’re going to crack up (or be really grossed out); almost all kids are
fascinated by their poop. They will carry that pot to the big toilet
staring and smelling and checking out everything about that poop,
mostly with a ton of pride: “I did THAT? THAT came outta MY
butt? Cooool.”
The number one problem with potty training and poop is that kids
start holding it in. The other big problem is that they let it out at the
wrong time. Unfortunately, the more the child holds it in, the more
likely it is to come out at the wrong time. Yeah?
So let’s take a minute to dissect the modern poop situation. I’m
here to tell you that pooping has gotten more problematic over the
past several decades. If your mom wants to tell you about how easy it
was for her to get you to poop on the potty, fine. That was then, this
is now. We are living in a different world, and we are different
parents, yes? I’ve been potty training kids since 2002. I wrote the first
edition of this book in 2009 and started helping massive numbers of
people in 2011. Pooping has become more of a problem lately. I know
barry
(Barry)
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