Hey now, the dream is over....

Well, it was too good to be true.

The child has started pooping in his pants again. (disinfected the shower again last night after hosing him down) He did very well for three weeks – no problems whatsoever. Just normal bathroom behavior. But then this week, all was lost. I don’t know what the matter is with this child. Obviously he can do it on the potty.

He had a good talking to from us and also had to answer many questions, many involving around the word: WHY?

The thing is, it doesn’t seem to concern him at all that he was covered in poop from knee till navel.

Why Monty? Didn’t you feel so good about yourself when you used the toilet like a big boy? Remember how you said you were five, and now you were only going to do it on the potty? Remember how happy you made mommy and daddy and how proud you were?

And he just looks at me with this mischievous grin.

First he said: “I didn’t know where the bathroom was…” (at home or at school, either way it is BS!!!!)

And finally he said: “ I just wanted to hold it in but it didn’t work. ” (You don’t say…)

But the thing is, now that he was good for three weeks, he has out-ed himself. No more excuses like: ‘he just doesn’t realize that it’s coming,’ ‘He just didn’t get potty trained well’ or ‘he is traumatized somehow’ and yada yada yada. He is just to freaking lazy to go to the toilet! Darn kid.

But now, now we know he can have ‘proper bathroom behavior’ !! So he can be punished when he just chooses to make a ‘deposit’ in his pants. None of the measures have worked so far, (no candy, no toys, no popsicles etc, he doesn’t care) but we came up with a new one: no TV. And if there is one kid I know that is a TV addict…

Honestly, it has got to stop already! NO-MORE-POO!