brandymr Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 i hate to be graphic or gross...but i don't know what to do!! i have a 2 year old who loves to use the potty. but if you don't pay very close attention, he will poop in his pullup or underwear, take them off, and make an absolute mess!!! he wants to draw on the walls with it and sometimes to even eat it!! this has happened at least a half dozen times and we have tried everything from talking to time outs to finally, swattin' his lil behind. i am just so frustrated because it's absolutely disgusting to clean up and i really just don't know what to do. any advice? is this normal? heeelllpppp!!!! 1 Link to comment
AwdreeHpburn Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Hey Welcome to ENA!! My advice - slow down on the potty training - he may be a bit young and not ready. Maybe go back to diapers. (respectfully) don't let him go potty alone yet. He's clearly not ready. Again - with respect - be more diligent about checking his pull-ups or diapers frequently. Pre-emptive is key.....get him before he gets to it... Link to comment
Ash Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Perhaps bypass the whole potty part and go directly to a toddler toilet seat that attaches to your normal toilet seat. Then hopefully flushing becomes part of the "ritual". (He may be a bit young, depends on the child really). My kids went this route and we never actually used a potty. The girls were toilet trained quite early so it's a feasible approach. Link to comment
BellaDonna Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Welcome to Freud's fun-filled "Anal Stage" where pooping is the most important thing in the world and doubles as finger paint... Pre-emptive is key.....get him before he gets to it... This is pretty much the only thing that works. This behavior is normal (yucky, I know... but normal) If your son likes to get messy why not let him use a nice big poster board and some non-toxic finger paints.... or frosting. That might help to get the urge to squish and smudge things out of his system. Some parents are even having "Messy Parties" for their kids link removed BellaDonna 1 Link to comment
brandymr Posted January 18, 2007 Author Share Posted January 18, 2007 thank you all so much...and thanks for the welcome. may i also mention that he has a baby brother who is 1...could this play a major role in his actions? could it possibly be due to attention that we are not giving him also? Link to comment
AwdreeHpburn Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 thank you all so much...and thanks for the welcome. may i also mention that he has a baby brother who is 1...could this play a major role in his actions? could it possibly be due to attention that we are not giving him also? Yes. And Belladonna is spot on with the re-direction route. Give him appropriate tools to do his creative work so he learns the difference. Link to comment
flower99 Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Hi there, Wow I looked this one up & it's amazing how many parents are dealing with this....there are some suggestions here that might help. link removed I can't say if it is or is not an attention getter, but it does seem to be fairly normal for a child to explore EVERYTHING.... 1 Link to comment
pregnantkitty_1985 Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Ewwww, ewww, eww. Heheh. It is a bit normal, I've heard of other little kids doing it. My fiance's sister ate her cousin's poop when she was a toddler, and one of my cousins would play in their poop and eat it too. My own sister would play with her poop. She once had a huge log entwined in her hair.. I don't know how but... ewww, I remember my poor mother ( sticking her in the bathtub, trying to get it out. It's sickening, but surprisingly normal at that stage. I don't know how you would go about correcting the problem... Ask the doctor would be my advice. Link to comment
BellaDonna Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Oh gosh.... I guess I will have this to look forward to in a couple of years. may i also mention that he has a baby brother who is 1...could this play a major role in his actions? could it possibly be due to attention that we are not giving him also? Yes, definitely. Potty training is a whole other ball game if there is another child still in diapers in the house. My sister was being potty trained when my brother was born, and she messed in her pants much longer than biologically required because she still wanted to be "the baby". Sometimes she would even pull her pants down and pee on the rug to get my parent's attention (even if it was negative attention) In case you're wondering, yes she is still a brat today.... 20 years later. lol Try to make potty training a "cool" activity that adults do, maybe your son will view it as special time where his 1 year-old sibling cannot be involved and that will make him feel happy. Get him to say "bye bye" to whatever he flushes so he will know the place for it is NOT the walls..... BellaDonna Link to comment
whiterabbit Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 We went through the poop play stage for a long time. I have cleaned up more poop than that guy who runs after the elephants at the circus. One trick is that if you have a child doing this and it appears to be a long term thing...get tile in that room and get the grout sealed. Then you can, at least clean it. Also, get the kind of paint in his room that you can wash. I can offer excellent tips in cleaning the poop out of the room and off your child.....I'm a seasoned campaigner. Tomato juice is helpful in getting the odor to subside a little faster...just don't let it get in your child's eyes. I used to bathe my chlid in it when things got really bad. It is the same thing you do when you get sprayed by a skunk. You have to be really careful and make sure your child doesn't have a diaper rash or anything that would make it painful for you to use the tomatoes. That stuff that you spray on dishes to make the food disolve before you put it in the dishwasher.....that stuff is great for getting poop off of tile. This is really gross, but helpful information if your child does this in his or her bedroom and it gets set in before you can get to it. WR Link to comment
Mythical_Suicide Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 My son used to do this all the time but the great news is.. He outgrew it in no time! I also did as others suggested and kept him occupied with things like finger paints and the like and it seemed to work. I dont have much more advice but i wanted to give you some hope that it doesnt last forever Link to comment
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