Dealing with Your Child's Resistance to Potty Training

Pediatrics expert Dr David Olson provides some excellent suggestions on dealing with resistance to potty training in the older (3yr+) child. Click on the link below to see his response  to a parent's query on this issue...

Pediatrics: Potty Training problems

Toilet Training Resistance
What is toilet training resistance?
Children who refuse to be toilet trained either wet themselves, soil themselves, or try to hold back their bowel movements (thus becoming constipated). Many of these children also refuse to sit on the toilet or will use the toilet only if a parent brings up the subject and marches them into the bathroom. Any child who is over 3 years old, healthy, and not toilet trained after several months of trying can be assumed to be resistant to the process rather than

Pediatrics: Potty Training problems

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