Guest guest Posted May 6, 2001 Report Share Posted May 6, 2001 hi Guys I am having big problems toilet training my 3 1/2yr ASD son. He is terrified of being put on the toilet. He tells me when he wants to go, but then screams the place down when I try and put him on the pot or the toilet. The thing is he is virtually changing his nappy himself now and I think it is time to get him out of them. When he has down a pooh, he takes his nappy off empties it down the toilet, grabs a wipe and a new nappy and comes and finds me and presents me with the wipe and nappy!!!!!!, so I am getting a bit worried. I tried letting him round with no nappy (sorry diaper)! so I could grap him and put him on the pot, but he is so sneaky he goes and climbs on his changing mat and does a pee and than gets off! any suggestions, I am at my wits end Emma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 6, 2001 Report Share Posted May 6, 2001 At Sunday 5/6/01 12:41 PM, you wrote: >I am having big problems toilet training my 3 1/2yr ASD son. He is >terrified of being put on the toilet. He tells me when he wants to go, >but then screams the place down when I try and put him on the pot or the >toilet. Our son resisted constantly at home, although he told us when out that he needed to go. My best guess is that he just didn't want to be told what to do, although that's merely my best guess. Anyway, we've done a couple of things over the months. For one, if he didn't really want to pee and we knew he should have to we'd take off his clothes and put him in the tub, then he'd pee pretty quickly and a little rinsing did away with any mess. At one time he went into a corner of the bathroom and opened a low cabinet door fully till it touched the wall. He was enclosing himself in, and away from me and the toilet. I went in there with him and we both laughed about it. From then on when bringing him in the toilet with resistance, I'd put myself in that corner with the cabinet door locking me in. Typically he'd come in with me. I'd have to say in hindsight that like with our two daughters defusing a conflict into a game goes a long way towards changing the behavior. Only with my son figuring out just what to do is all the more challenging because he seems to think a bit differently than his sisters did at his age. BTW, he's been urine accident free for months now including at night, and is a long way towards using the potty for No 2 Marty Face 2 Interface Web Solutions Content Management Made SIMPL Free Trial for Your Website Available http://face2interface.com/Home/Trial.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 6, 2001 Report Share Posted May 6, 2001 If he is afraid of the big potty, have youo tried a little potty? O is he to big for one, you know they used to make a bigger version of the little pottys looked like a chair with a pot under neath, if you could find one of the old kind it might work. F toilet training > hi Guys > > I am having big problems toilet training my 3 1/2yr ASD son. He is terrified of being put on the toilet. He tells me when he wants to go, but then screams the place down when I try and put him on the pot or the toilet. > > The thing is he is virtually changing his nappy himself now and I think it is time to get him out of them. When he has down a pooh, he takes his nappy off empties it down the toilet, grabs a wipe and a new nappy and comes and finds me and presents me with the wipe and nappy!!!!!!, so I am getting a bit worried. > > I tried letting him round with no nappy (sorry diaper)! so I could grap him and put him on the pot, but he is so sneaky he goes and climbs on his changing mat and does a pee and than gets off! > > any suggestions, I am at my wits end > > Emma > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 6, 2001 Report Share Posted May 6, 2001 Wait and they will be ready when they are ready.. Some family made comments.. Very hurtful. He was 3 going on 4 before he was ready and I did not push it.. He just finally wanted to do it. There might be some trouble for them recoginizing they have to go.. kelly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 6, 2001 Report Share Posted May 6, 2001 > hi Guys > > He is terrified of being put on the toilet. ] \ My daughter was EXACTLY the same. I tried and tried and TRIED to get het to go on the potty, and she never would. For th elast 6 months she has been wearing undies and just putting on a diaper when she has to go then taking it right off. Then last week we were at the doctor and he needed a urine sample. I said, can you sit on the potty and pee in this cup? She said O.K. and did it fine. The she came home and said, " now I'm going to pee in the potty " and she did! I was thrilled. She's now been going in the potty for the last week just fine. The lesson I learned was that I just had to wait till she was ready. No amount of pushing or bribing could convince her until she was ready, and when she was it was no big deal! She is now 3.8yrs old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 6, 2001 Report Share Posted May 6, 2001 My daughter was just like that, terrified of sitting on the potty. She was a little older than your son. I tried to be really relaxed about it, and I told her,over and over again, the story of a little kitten that was terrified of the potty but (my girl) told him not to be worried and eventually he got over it. There were a lot od details added, but that was the main point. Maybe if there's a certain character your son likes ( adored cats) you can make up a story like that and tell it a lot, not just at potty time. used to ask for the story constantly and eventually it helped. Kathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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