Poll: 3 Year Olds and Wiping

TexasHarmony · November 2010

Does your 3 year old wipe his/her butt after they poop or do you assist?

If your 3 year old is in daycare, do they get help wiping their butts or do they come home with crusty poop in their undies?

Thanks.

CareBear01 · November 2010

TexasHarmony:

Does your 3 year old wipe his/her butt after they poop or do you assist?

If your 3 year old is in daycare, do they get help wiping their butts or do they come home with crusty poop in their undies?

Thanks.

This just doesn't seem right!!!!

thehoneybadger · November 2010

I'm helping her wipe even just for pee. I want to say I read somewhere that they don't really get that coordination for wiping until they are a little older.

charlotteL · November 2010

I assisted. I didn't fully trust him to get it all.

KelleyA · November 2010

Amelia wipes and generally does a good job. She comes running into the room and knows the turn around and let us see her bottom. She does a bad job once in a while and that requires wipes and a return trip to the potty.

alisa1228 · November 2010

TexasHarmony:
Does your 3 year old wipe his/her butt after they poop or do you assist?
If your 3 year old is in daycare, do they get help wiping their butts or do they come home with crusty poop in their undies?
Thanks.

we assist.

as for MDO, i'm not sure if they assist, but she has never come home with poop on her undies... but i'm guessing that's bc she has never gone there... she is generally a evening pooper.

KNJepp · November 2010

Obviously I'm not "here" yet. I can't remember if Kayla was an adequate "wiper" at that age or not. But coming home with crusty poop in their undies is so not cool, in my book!

CareBear01 · November 2010

Maybe it was a shart?

thehoneybadger · November 2010

I'm assuming this is a recurring problem and not a one time instance.

LisaK2b · November 2010

TexasHarmony:

Does your 3 year old wipe his/her butt after they poop or do you assist?

If your 3 year old is in daycare, do they get help wiping their butts or do they come home with crusty poop in their undies?

Thanks.

We still need to assist. But emmy did come home with crusty undies one time and she got a little rash from it. My mom mentioned to the teachers the next week that Emmy still needs help if she poops. We also informed her teachers this year the same thing. I have also reminded Emmy over and over again that when she poops at school, she needs to let the teacher know she they can help her wipe. So so far this year, no crusty undies!

rayskit10 · November 2010

We definitely assist but boys are slower...yadda... yadda... I read in one parenting book that boys may need occasional help until the age of 6 or older. I literally said to Ray "why don't I just wipe your ass too while I'm at it."

His teachers do help at school but they are not as thorough so he does come home with occasional skid marks.

KKMMex · November 2010

I still assist my 4.5 year old. I've tried and tried to get her on a good routine where she poops in the morning before preschool. I'm sure you know how that goes!

If she poops at home I'm right there to help. If she goes at school, inevitably there's crusty poop in her drawers. YUCK.

I help my almost 3yo also, but she's so much better at the potty that I think I might not need to help her much longer.

TexasHarmony · November 2010

I am not talking a shart or some small skid marks.

I am talking a normal poop and then NO wiping whatsoever.

We have discussed with daycare at least 4 times. I am about to start taking dirty undies to school. I am pretty sure it is one teacher.

horn_jm@hotmail.com · November 2010

I assist. I have a home pooper probably 95% of the time, so I haven't had issues from school. Both of my kids rarely poop away from home - weird!

jen5-03 · November 2010

E rarely poops away from home. And when she poops, I swear she is the cleanest pooper in the world. I know she pooped, I see poop in the toilet, I wipe her and the paper comes off clean. It's crazy.

Anyway, if she does poop at school, probably half the time she'd demand help and the other half the time she'd probably refuse to let anyone help. I don't think I could blame the crusties on daycare.

TexasHarmony · November 2010

jen5/03:

E rarely poops away from home. And when she poops, I swear she is the cleanest pooper in the world. I know she pooped, I see poop in the toilet, I wipe her and the paper comes off clean. It's crazy.

Anyway, if she does poop at school, probably half the time she'd demand help and the other half the time she'd probably refuse to let anyone help. I don't think I could blame the crusties on daycare.

I wish it were just crusties we were dealing with. Let me put it this way, I often throw the undies out rather than put them in the washer. It is enough that my repeat conversations with daycare focus on the potential for a UTI.

Nanner · November 2010

I always assist. No matter how many times I show her, she still hasn't gotten the idea that two squares of toilet paper squished into a little ball isn't the way to go for wiping her ass. She always ends up with it all over her hands. Ick!

CallMeKel · November 2010

I still usually have to help wipe my 4.5 yr old (w/pooping, not peeing), just to make sure she gets it all. The teachers don't help wipe at school.

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