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body functions part 538
| Wed, 09-05-2007 - 10:57pm |
Doing our morning checklist today, Isaac went up to his room to get dressed.
| Wed, 09-05-2007 - 10:57pm |
Doing our morning checklist today, Isaac went up to his room to get dressed.
I'm so sorry you and Isaac are going through these issues. I think your "demands" are pretty reasonable. He has to learn that he can't go to the bathroom in his bedroom.
Good luck.
Debbie, IMO they were very reasonable! It's not like you took his favorite toys away an threw them in the garbage. You have given him a chance to earn them back.
As you say this can't go on, and I think it's important that he learns this now, in the beginning, kinda like nip it in the butt before it goes too far.
Just wanna give you a hug {{{Debbie}}}} and this probably has to do with the move, but you know you still can't let him keep on doing this. I know I had potty problems everytime there was a move or a major change going on, but still I wish at that time I had read your thread, because I could of done things differently.
Good luck sweetie, you made perfect choices with him.
Lainie
I am sorry to hear about your poop story. I was on this mom's board before and I felt like everyday I had some horror story just like that. My son had a lot of issues potty training. He finally got it at 4.5, but then just the other day at 5.2 he just pooped in the room up here too. I guess he didn't want to get off the computer. I don't know how I missed it either, I was walking back and forth doing my mom chores, and then like you said all of the sudden I caught him "trying to clean up."
Is it true children on the spectrum potty train slower ? My son has only been evaluated by our pedi who has some specialty in behavior stuff. She said he as Aspergers and ADHD, so we are still new to all of this. The school is stepping in though since he is having so many issues. From all the reading I have done he fits as an Aspie. Anyway sorry lost track, my point is now I wonder if that is why I had so many issues with him, while all my friends kids were potty trained at 2-3.
So good luck and may the potty force be with you !!!! Don't worry about posting poop stories, I know I won't get tired of hearing them, since I remember being in the same boat.
HTH
Janine
Dear Debbie,
hugs, hugs, hugs.
It's the middle of the night here, and I'm sleepy but buzzed on allergy medicine. I reserve the right to delete and apologize if I give a bad suggestion:
But I have some recollection that the bathroom is really uncomfortable for Isaac. I know he is a big boy, and should use the bathroom, but IF it would work to put a potty in he room, perhaps even with a tee-shirt in it if he like peeing on tee-shirts, wouldn't that at least make clean-up a little easier? If he gets to the point that he uses the potty, you could gradually move it closer and closer to the bathroom.
(I had to smile a bit with the part that you choose the rescue heros that go. That is funny; now he doesn't have to play a kind of rescue hero survivor game!)
I hope things improve.
Sidney.
(((Debbie)))
I'm sorry you are having to deal with such a yuccky problem. It sounds to me like you handled it really well. I hope it works & that behavior stops.
Samantha
Debie,
We spoke about this is chat, but I'd like to go "on the record" too ;).
I don't see this as a first offense. he has gone to the bathroom in his room before, and he has not learned his lesson.
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Huge hugs to you, Debbie. I'm in total agreement with Paula on this one...big shocker, I know...so the only thing I'll add is that today I heard our school custodian was in a rage because somebody had gone into the upstairs boys bathroom (2nd, 3rd and 4th graders are on the 2nd floor) and had pooped right in front of the urinal! Of course, I thought of you...but then I had to wonder, if you made it so far as the urinal, why not go the distance and use the toilet! UGH!
Amy
Debbie....
I don't think you overracted either. This is a huge deal!
I don't think I've ever posted to any of your body function posts, but I have been reading them and they are all too familiar. Sam (now 8) was potty trained several times. I think he finally got it when he was 5. We went through all this same stuff. I made him clean his underwear himself...etc all that stuff. I had soooo many incentives and he didn't care at all for them. He used to hold it until he couldn't hold it anymore. He hated going and still doesn't really care for it.
I reached a breaking point one day and took *all* of his YugiOh cards away. Every time he went poop on the toilet he got one back. If he had an "accident' then I took one away. That did it. I haven't had to do anymore "training" since. I would have never used negative consequences in the initial stages of potty training. But at that point, I had trained him several times and he just wasn't having it at all. I hated having to do it too, BTW.
Good Luck!
Chrystee
I'm in complete agreement with Paula too. You did the right thing, Debbie. This has been an ongoing problem, not a first offense.
We've done similar things with Eva and her favorite toys. It hurts to have to do it, but in Eva's case it worked. I hope it works for Isaac too.
~Candes
Debbie,
That does not sound like fun, but I think you're handling it well.