Comments on: Major’s Potty Training Regression

By: Emily Sloan

Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:31:52 +0000

Our son started having regular pee and poop accidents regularly just before he hit 3 years old after his baby sis was born. He had been PT’d for about 6 months before the regression hit. We went back to full on diapers. After about 5 days of wet, poopy, diapers not changed as often as they should, he got the picture, and realised diapers do not feel as good as they used to. Then after those 5 days, regression gone..

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By: Areth Tsouprake

Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:56:38 +0000

I was thinking, is there a way to give Major some new things he can have control over. Then maybe some of the focus can be on those new things and a bit less on the potty. I like the other suggestion someone had of not reacting to the accidents.
I can relate to having parents divorce at a young age and wish your kids well. You are doing great!

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By: Caitie

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 04:30:08 +0000

I have a suggestion for helping him to learn to wipe better!! Either toddler wipes or baby wipes! I’m 33 years old and I still remember my mom teaching me that I had to wipe til the wipe was clean. Turns out, she’d noticed that I got frustrated with the TP and gave up lol. When my brother came along, she did wipes with him from the start and he learned a lot faster than me!

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By: Mary

Mon, 03 Feb 2020 23:31:19 +0000

My boy was completely done with night diapers, pull ups, accidents and potty training regressions at the age of 3 years and 8 months! Yeap, it might sound too late but as far as I understand from my interaction with other parents, most boys who are supposedly potty trained much earlier are not consistent and usually have many accidents until three and a half.I happened to have a very resistant kid who faced difficulties with delayed speech and perhaps that was a reason why he was attached to diapers (until three he hated underwear).Fortunately speech therapy and school did wonders, he is at a very good level and suddenly after a long period of resistance he realized that he was on top of his own body and was able to control his pee and poop.So, now we work on the next level of wiping himself after poop (it never ends, does it????)
But, oh my god, I thought that it would never happen for him to be the one to tell me that he needs to visit the toilet.I dreaded that I would continue to drag him to the toilet way past any acceptable age and that there would be awful consequences to his life and development.I mean I have tried everything and explained every possible reasoning to my sweet soul so that I persuade him to inform me ,or any other adult that would supervise him, that he wanted to visit the toilet for “tseesa” (pee) or “kaka” (poop).Of course I used to repeat to him constantly that all these belong to the toilet and that it is dirty and discusting to leave it on his diaper or underwear (without scolding him).That his diaper and underwear could not hold the quantity of his pee and poop because he was big already and if he failed to inform me he would be probably left for hours with wet clothes and his skin would get red and irritated and that would be uncomfortable, that his classmates would think he was a baby, that he was a big boy almost a man and that super markets wouldn’t sell so big diapers to fit him any more, that when he got wet on his panties and I changed his clothes he was simply loosing fun time of playing with his peers and away from his toys so it would be more clever of him to come and tell that he is going to the toilet in order to skip all that annoying change of clothes.I even resorted to his then beloved baby mickey and babyvdonald and pretended that these dolls were talking to him urging him to keep his pee and call them when he visited the toilet and on and on….anything real mixed with imagination and little horror LOL!The truth is that most of the time I HAD NO IDEA what I was doing I felt like a looser when I was changing him clothes repeatedly and I had it with cleaning floors and surfaces ..(how did you deal with cleaning pee from all over the place, especially when your house is NEW ?.Suddenly as I was
felling stuck and helpless my kid “decided” that he would not have any accidents any more…So I believe that early potty training is not the best thing for some kids and that feelling anxious doesnt help because as you also said in most cases it will be redolved on its own.I would not stand to change him soooo many times and clean my place constantly from pee and poop ??.I actually used pull ups when accidents were many and daily and I only remooved them when I was confident that he could always hold his pee and poop and visit the toilet without my urging.

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By: 4resh_AIR

Mon, 03 Feb 2020 03:29:08 +0000

In reply to Camilla.

The bullseye toilet toy, YES! Rave reviews. Good suggestion.

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By: Camilla

Sat, 01 Feb 2020 20:03:01 +0000

My twin godsons, Carson & Matteo (will turn 3 in April) had some regression with potty training after their parents recent divorce and the death of their dog.

Their mom bought them a toddler projection training device that lights up a target ? for boys to practice aiming, and also a potty timer watch that lights up and makes noise at different intervals you can select, every 30 min, 60 min etc.

The boys like the target so much they were fighting over using the potty, so their mom had to purchase a second one for another bathroom in their house!

The boys stopped having accidents immediately after using these products. Both can be found on Amazon for a really cheap price. They also use a potty training sticker chart and get a sticker each time they use the potty. After a certain amount of stickers they can earn a trip out for ice cream, pick out a new book, or ride the little carousel at the mall. They get to practice their counting and are so proud to tell everyone how many stickers they have.

Good luck to Major! I bet he will be back on track not having accidents before you know it! You could also talk with his pediatrician for idea. Hope this helps!

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By: Christine

Sat, 01 Feb 2020 13:14:38 +0000

My 3 year old won’t poop in the potty . He has been pee trained , night trained for over a year . I had his sister 7 months ago…. so that’s new . But he just won’t poop in the potty . So everytime he has to , he asks me for a pull up. I try and do the toy method… he told me once “ not THAT toy “ . I felt defeated . I still feel defeated . But i know when he’s ready he will learn b I’m stuck changing two diapers still

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By: Heather

Fri, 31 Jan 2020 19:31:56 +0000

Try not to worry too much, it happens to a lot of children. You are doing all the right things, just carry on. Sometimes it just takes a bit of time and perseverance.

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By: Jamie

Fri, 31 Jan 2020 18:35:01 +0000

When we had problem with potty training the dr suggested that I have zero reaction to the accident. Just change her and continue on with whatever we where do. I did this several times.. didn’t say a word.. didn’t question.. or make a face at all and about after a month it stopped.
The dr explained to me that body fluids is something that kid feel great power with. So if they get a reaction good or bad they will use it..
With this said every kid is different . Best of luck 🙂

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