A question about wiping in the bathroom
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| Mon, 02-27-2006 - 3:47pm |
Do your children have a hard time wiping themselves after using the bathroom? I'm still wiping my 7.5yo ds bottom 'cus he just makes a horrific mess if he wipes himself. He doesn't have great coordination to begin with, plus he doesn't really notice how badly he smears stuff everywhere (hands, clothes, wall, toilet paper, toilet seat -- blech). He doesn't seem to grasp the mechanics of HOW to wipe properly or the consequences of what happens if he doesn't wipe properly. He does tend to have fairly messy bm, so that doesn't help the process. Ds WANTS to be allowed to do it himself, but I've forbidden him for now (we periodically go through training periods 'til I get too frustrated and forbid him again). Ds is my 3rd child, so I've successfully taught two other children before, but this one just isn't "getting it." (11yo dd doesn't like to wipe herself and doesn't care if she's wet/dirty/smelly, but that's a different issue. At least she knows how.) Is this a feature of the disorder, or is this just him?

rina
Ditto on the flushable wet wipes. We use cottonelle. My son is younger and is no where near able to wipe himself. Not even close. He is almost 4 and actually just learned to pull his pants up and down, although he has been potty-trained for a few months now (knock on wood, I'm afraid I'll wake up and find it's been a dream!).
I do think it is a problem related to ASD--motor planning, being tactilly over or under-sensitive, that kind of thing. Plus for so many of our kids potty training, and bm's in particular, are so hard and it takes them longer to learn.
Ditto once again on the flushable wipes.
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Nathan does ok with this. But he still insists that I "check" him....just to make sure!! LOL He doesn't like to be dirty! He wouldn't wipe for a long time because he was afraid of getting his hands dirty. But I kept telling him that he had to learn. So, he stuck it out and kept trying to work on it. He just started feeling comfortable going at school this year too.
He still washes his hands the minute he gets home from school too!! "The kids are dirty!" LOL
michelle