katie

This is very specific advice but it might work for someone else. I put a diaper at the bottom of the potty and had my son poop on the potty, into the diaper. This was last week, after years of waiting and trying to get my son to poop in the potty.

My son is 4.5 yo and we tried everything. Even though I have asked him dozens of times why he didn’t want to poop in the potty he revealed to me last week that he was afraid to see his poop in the potty. I asked if he rather see his poop in his diaper and he said “yes”. So then I asked if he would poop on the potty if there was a diaper at the bottom of the potty – I couldn’t believe it – but he said “yes”! I can’t apply my adult logic to his kid logic so I will never understand why this is what worked. This “trick” was like training wheels. A week later he doesn’t need the diaper to poop in anymore.