It’s been a while since I shared an update.
I made a new attempt with potty training now that the weather’s gotten warmer. He absolutely refuses to be naked, which I totally get, but I’ve let him go without a diaper for a while when we’re outside in the garden, just wearing thinner shorts. And he’s had loads of accidents. Whenever I see him peeing, I ask him if he needs to go to the toilet, but he just doesn’t seem to care. I really don’t know how to help him understand his body’s signals that he needs to pee. Now he shows no reaction at all when he’s about to pee or poop.
The strange new behaviour he sometimes has after he’s pooped, where he sits and kind of rocks or bounces on his bottom, still happens now and then. Some weeks he doesn’t do it at all, other weeks I see it a couple of times. I still don’t really know why he does it. I’ve tried gently asking him to stop, but he usually gets upset and tells me to leave the room.
The hardest part is still changing his diaper, especially when I have to stop him from doing something he enjoys. I’ve tried giving him a little warning, like telling him a few minutes before that we need to go change, so he has time to finish what he’s doing. But he gets upset and anxious when he has to stop, and it almost always ends with him screaming and kicking. Most of the time I have to drag him to the bathroom while trying not to get hit.
If we stick to our normal routine, it usually goes pretty smoothly. But if I need to change him outside of those times, it almost always turns into a full-blown battle.
I really don’t know what to do to make this easier for him when it gets this hard.
I made a new attempt with potty training now that the weather’s gotten warmer. He absolutely refuses to be naked, which I totally get, but I’ve let him go without a diaper for a while when we’re outside in the garden, just wearing thinner shorts. And he’s had loads of accidents. Whenever I see him peeing, I ask him if he needs to go to the toilet, but he just doesn’t seem to care. I really don’t know how to help him understand his body’s signals that he needs to pee. Now he shows no reaction at all when he’s about to pee or poop.
The strange new behaviour he sometimes has after he’s pooped, where he sits and kind of rocks or bounces on his bottom, still happens now and then. Some weeks he doesn’t do it at all, other weeks I see it a couple of times. I still don’t really know why he does it. I’ve tried gently asking him to stop, but he usually gets upset and tells me to leave the room.
The hardest part is still changing his diaper, especially when I have to stop him from doing something he enjoys. I’ve tried giving him a little warning, like telling him a few minutes before that we need to go change, so he has time to finish what he’s doing. But he gets upset and anxious when he has to stop, and it almost always ends with him screaming and kicking. Most of the time I have to drag him to the bathroom while trying not to get hit.
If we stick to our normal routine, it usually goes pretty smoothly. But if I need to change him outside of those times, it almost always turns into a full-blown battle.
I really don’t know what to do to make this easier for him when it gets this hard.
