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[quote=Anonymous]I can't remember the exact details (and maybe didn't know them at the time) but my niece had a similar issue. My sister was fairly overprotective and definitely indulged my niece. She is 11 now and fairly well adjusted (honestly gaining a sister when she was around 6 helped - took some of my sister's attention away and everyone loosened up a little).

I can't remember if she would only poop at her house or wouldn't poop in the potty at all. I think it might have been the former which may have been a little easier to deal with... but it also meant that for the first 6-7 years they didn't travel at all... and it played a huge factor in my sister sending her to a non-traditional school that had a heavy homeschool component. (they are in CA so the model is a bit different than anything we have here... it's a public charter school, in their public school district, but there is a minimal on-site requirement like in K I think it was one morning a week and the rest was homeschooling with a curriculum/objectives that the school provided. In the end it's worked well for their family).

One thing I remember them doing that may work at home and as a transition to more "normal" toilet practices is they somehow put a diaper in the toilet when she needed to go. They may have continued to use one of the small training toilets. So she wasn't wearing the diaper but the pool still went into the diaper, which somehow comforted her.

All this to say, while it's not "normal" per se, you are not the only one to deal with it. It happens, and I bet if you can get your kid really excited about K in general, and he realizes that he needs to be fully toilet trained to start, it'll happen pretty quickly. A therapist may help as well. [/quote]

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