My suggestion is to ask him if he may be angry about something and to try to explore this possibility with him over time and help him voice possible anger or resentment even if it seems like a reach.
My kid poops on the floor.
Your child may have mastered peeing in the potty but taking a bowel movement can be an entirely different story.
Is your child old enough to know what she s doing.
If we wait twenty years before addressing this problem although it may not involve any hand swatting it will be much more painful than if we address it decisively at one or two years old by teaching them to associate bad behavior with hand swatting.
He know he is doing something wrong and will even clean it up himself before we see it on the floor.
No your 4 year old is going to resist resist and resist some more.
As a result she may claim to have used the bathroom when she really urinated on the living room floor.
Indeed many toddlers refuse to poop anywhere except their diaper or pull up.
We have tried rewards punishments praise toys etc.
Some kids are lazy about going to the bathroom but the frequency and destructive nature of the behavior sounds more than a child urinating in a corner as an easy way out of more mature toilet use.
A child who longs for her parents approval may suddenly start to feel embarrassed or ashamed when a bathroom accident occurs no matter how accepting her parents are actually likely to be.
This problem is most often linked to constipation.
I know my son enjoyed graphic dramatic retellings of his massively large poop and reveled in the attention.
I think we ve had it easy compared to some kids i ve heard about going through the same problem.
Constipation occurs when stool becomes backed up in.
Sooner or later we all have to learn that pooping on the floor is not an acceptable way to handle conflict.
No yelling no scolding no eye contact.
My almost 4 year old had been potty trained for almost a year and it has been struggle to get him to poop in the potty.
As soon as he gets caught he will say no poo poo on the floor.
And this resistance takes the form of pooping on the bathroom floor.
Just poop belongs in the potty not the floor you don t mention his age but if he s on the older side and you do short time outs you could try telling him he has to sit on the step or somewhere away from you while you clean the mess up.
