PTing question.

AWD

DS (33 months) has been doing great peeing in potty and he tries to poop but has no luck. I have been letting him run around naked and asking him every 2 hours or sooner if he looks as though he needs to go. He has yet to tell me he needs to pee but when I sit him on the potty he goes with no problem. When I ask him if he needs to poop he says yes and tries but no luck, he then will ask for a diaper. What should I do?

ilovemygirls

Actually I think you're on the right track.  A lot of times they have a harder time w/the pooping than the peeing.  My nephew would only poop in a diaper for the longest time.  Just keep praising, reinforcing.  If you haven't yet, you could try a potty chart (he can put a sticker on it every time he goes) and work up to a reward.  For encouraging a poop on the potty, maybe try to think of a big reward you know he would love & just tell him whenever he chooses to poop on the potty, that's when he gets it. 

Oh, also read books about pottying, maybe get some videos.  We have a Bear in the Big Blue House one that my kids both still love.  Anything to make it fun without pressure.  I think it sounds like you're doing great!

tammy79

Just continue doing what you are doing. it took DS a week to pee trained, and 8 weeks, yes 8 weeks to start pooping in the potty,now he's completely trained, we did a lot bribing.

calico77

My DS loves ice cream from Brusters.  I made him a sticker chart....when he'd poop in the potty, he got a sticker.  Started off with 2 poops=ice cream cone (free baby cone).  Did that twice for immediate gratification.  Stretched it to 3, then 4 then evenutally up to 6 then 10 stickers for a poop.  After the ten, we stopped the stickers.  It really only took a good 2 weeks of sticker charts (2-6 times =ice cream) and a few weeks of continuing reinforcement (8-10 times=ice cream) and then he was good to go.  No accidents at all after the sticker bribes.  We did this in June and he wasn't quite 2.5 yet.