Poop

A few days after she started to go on her own she would NOT go potty for poop. She just refused. No matter how much I begged, bribed, promised, and pleaded, she would only go in her panties.

I could not understand it because she would go pee just fine, but would hold her poop forever until she was off the potty.

I read somewhere that some children have this idea that their poop is part of them and it scares them to push it out of them into the potty. Some books have been written about it to explain to them where it goes, and that might work for some children.

I heard another idea about how to get a child to go poop in the potty. I told Madeleine that at the very bottom of the potty are tiny fishes and when she poops into the potty her poopy feeds the fishes. It worked right away!!! She would run to "feed the fishies" when she had to poop.

And then when she did poop in the potty I would make a gigantic deal about it and would give her more M&Ms than normal.