Potty training issues at school

[Guest guest]

Hello everyone! I know I have asked a similar question before, but I really

need some help! For those of you who have children who were not yet potty

trained after age 5 or 6, how was this handled by your child's school? My son

is having a terrible time with this! He is 6 and in a class for mild cognitive

impairment. His teacher keeps insisting that she feels he is ready and he can do

it, so they keep expecting him to go to the bathroom, change his own pull-up,

and at least sit and try to go several times during the school day. Sometimes

he will cooperate, but many times it becomes a battle and throws him into a

tantrum. I feel that he is just not ready, and he has not shown ME any signs

that he even knows when he has to go. Our neurologist says that it is not

uncommon for kids with various neurological disorders to have delays in

achieving bladder and bowel control, and sometimes it can take until they are 9

or 10 years old. So, my gut feeling is that the more they push him to do this,

the more he will get turned off to the whole idea, and it will just be that much

harder to train him when he IS ready. What makes it even worse now, is that his

little sister, who is almost 3, has just become potty trained and has been

getting the praise and rewards for her accomplishment, but when he sees her

doing this, he just gets all the more frustrated and angry, so now he refuses to

even sit on the toilet for me at all. I have not found any type of reward that

will make a difference for him (and I've tried them all!) So, if there is anyone

out there who has been in a similar situation, could you please let me know how

you handled it? Thank you so much!

(Eli's mom)

[Guest guest]

My duaghter never had the rage. She got moody and weepy but with the addition of

vB6 she evened out. I think too it was just getting her used to the meds.

Every med can affect people different so it is not a clear cut across the board

situation. But yes we are messing with our kiddos brains, however necessasarily,

to stop the abnormal signals and help them function closer to normal.

I guess there is always a give and take and everyone has to make their own

decisions based on their kids and their reactions.

I'm just sharing our experience with it and how it helped.

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> > From: Diane Roy <deszone25@>

> > Subject: RE: Potty training issues at school

> > To: " polymicrogyria " <polymicrogyria >

> > Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 7:13 AM

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> > , I can not help with the potty training but as a nurse that works

with

> special ed kids I know the school sometimes get them trainned at school.

> > Sometimes when our kids are not trainned so late it is not necessarily

> seizures but a abnormal EEG waves. Just a thought.

> > Diane

> > Potty training issues at school

> >

> > Hello everyone! I know I have asked a similar question before, but I really

> need some help! For those of you who have children who were not yet potty

> trained after age 5 or 6, how was this handled by your child's school? My son

> is having a terrible time with this! He is 6 and in a class for mild

cognitive

> impairment. His teacher keeps insisting that she feels he is ready and he can

do

> it, so they keep expecting him to go to the bathroom, change his own pull-up,

> and at least sit and try to go several times during the school day. Sometimes

> he will cooperate, but many times it becomes a battle and throws him into a

> tantrum. I feel that he is just not ready, and he has not shown ME any signs

> that he even knows when he has to go. Our neurologist says that it is not

> uncommon for kids with various neurological disorders to have delays in

> achieving bladder and bowel control, and sometimes it can take until they are

9

> or 10 years old. So, my gut

> > feeling is that the more they push him to do this, the more he will get

turned

> off to the whole idea, and it will just be that much harder to train him when

he

> IS ready. What makes it even worse now, is that his little sister, who is

> almost 3, has just become potty trained and has been getting the praise and

> rewards for her accomplishment, but when he sees her doing this, he just gets

> all the more frustrated and angry, so now he refuses to even sit on the toilet

> for me at all. I have not found any type of reward that will make a

difference

> for him (and I've tried them all!) So, if there is anyone out there who has

been

> in a similar situation, could you please let me know how you handled it?

Thank

> you so much!

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> > (Eli's mom)

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