Credit: Ross Brown www.rossbrown.co.uk
Hang in there. Toilet training is half muscle control, and half habit or routine. I would take him to the bathroom every half hour until he went, then back off to an hour or hour and a half. He needed to get into a routine of GOING into the bathroom, and then nature would take its course. Going #2 was a huge issue with D1 also. He pooped his pants longer than anything.
I invested in some heavy duty cloth & rubber training pants! They are triple-thick training underwear with the plastic on the outside. I called every consignment shop in town, went to every yard sale and thrift shop I could, to collect 12 pairs of them. You can also find them at WalMart for around $7 for a two-pack. I used a big bucket with a lid (the kind that dishwasher detergent comes in from Costco is perfect), filled it with water & 1/2 cup of bleach, and kept it, sealed, in the cupboard next to the toilet.
If he had an accident, the underwear went straight in the bucket. I know that without those training pants he’d probably STILL be wearing pullups. I ended up with about ten pair of them, and when we first began using them, he’d go through 10-12 in a day. As time went on, he got better. It’s just like potty training your two year old, except much bigger and older!
We kept a bag of “potty M&M’s”. He got 1 for getting ON the toilet, and 3 if he WENT while he was there. Pooping in the toilet got D1 a small handful!
*GRIN* Don’t worry Mom, this too shall pass!!
