Sooner or later we all have to learn that pooping on the floor is not an acceptable way to handle conflict.
My kid poops on the floor.
I think we ve had it easy compared to some kids i ve heard about going through the same problem.
Your child may have mastered peeing in the potty but taking a bowel movement can be an entirely different story.
As soon as he gets caught he will say no poo poo on the floor.
And this resistance takes the form of pooping on the bathroom floor.
It occurs when a child usually over the age of 4 has a bowel movement and soils their pants.
If we wait twenty years before addressing this problem although it may not involve any hand swatting it will be much more painful than if we address it decisively at one or two years old by teaching them to associate bad behavior with hand swatting.
No yelling no scolding no eye contact.
No your 4 year old is going to resist resist and resist some more.
I know my son enjoyed graphic dramatic retellings of his massively large poop and reveled in the attention.
If a poop on the floor happens no reaction.
My suggestion is to ask him if he may be angry about something and to try to explore this possibility with him over time and help him voice possible anger or resentment even if it seems like a reach.
When poops happen on the floor a poop on the potty is worth the party.
As a result she may claim to have used the bathroom when she really urinated on the living room floor.
A child who longs for her parents approval may suddenly start to feel embarrassed or ashamed when a bathroom accident occurs no matter how accepting her parents are actually likely to be.
My almost 4 year old had been potty trained for almost a year and it has been struggle to get him to poop in the potty.
This problem is most often linked to constipation.
He know he is doing something wrong and will even clean it up himself before we see it on the floor.
Just poop belongs in the potty not the floor you don t mention his age but if he s on the older side and you do short time outs you could try telling him he has to sit on the step or somewhere away from you while you clean the mess up.
Some kids are lazy about going to the bathroom but the frequency and destructive nature of the behavior sounds more than a child urinating in a corner as an easy way out of more mature toilet use.
Is your child old enough to know what she s doing.
