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Potty training questions.

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OK so my son has been potty training for about two weeks. He is in underwear and pees in the potty but poops in his pants.  We know when he is about to poop because he goes into the closet and hides.  We pull him out of the closet and take him to the toilet where we tell him to poop then he pees and goes, "Yeah, I pooped!"  No.  He peed. 

So pooping now happens in his underwear.  In the two weeks he's been potty training he's only pooped three times and every time it's been when we're not looking in his underwear.  One time it even happened when husband was playing hide and seek with him so it wasn't like we aren't watching him, he's just a tricky little guy!

I think he's really confused as to the difference in pee and poop.  How do we explain the difference?

Pull ups aren't an option because if we put pull ups on him, he'll go back to peeing in his diaper.

Also, he starts pre-school next week.  It's only three hours a day and he'll probably be so distracted he doesn't poop there but should I put him in a pull up just for pre school so the teachers don't have to deal with nasty underwear?  He does not need to be potty trained to go to pre school but I don't want to regress by putting him in diapers again.

Thanks! 

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Re: Potty training questions.

  • meldoo2002meldoo2002 member
    I wouldn't bother with pull ups at pre-school since he'll probably just hold it.  Nathan was the same way... we have been PTing for about 3 months.  For 2 months he peed on the potty and would poop in his pants or hold it.  Now finally he's consistently pooping in the potty.  We just kept up with it.  No real advice, but hang in there.  I don't think he's confused... just not ready to poop on the potty yet.

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