How do you toilet train older children?
My 6 1/2-year-old son refuses to use the toilet and thus is still in diapers. I have tried to encourage him with all kinds of different rewards but nothing has worked.
I even promised to buy him a puppy if he started to use the toilet but the promise of a puppy didn’t work either. I’m not sure what to do! I feel like a failure as a mother and the whole situation is embarrassing.
How do you toilet train older children?
I assume you have had him checked up by a pediatrician to make sure there’s nothing physically or mentally wrong with him?
If you are sure that he isn’t just holding out for an Abrams battle tank (puppies don’t interest all children) — start playing hard ball with him…
Simply stop using diapers on him! It takes a pretty strong person to empty their bowels on the living room carpet. Whenever he craps or takes a leak anywhere but in the bathroom — put one of his toys under the hammer!
He’s a 6 1/2-year-old and should understand that “every action has an equal and opposite reaction” — he craps on the living room floor = you rip the arms off, and crush the head of, his beloved Buzz Lightyear toy.
Sometimes all you need is a little childhood trauma to stop unwanted behaviour!
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