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[quote=Anonymous]OP, are his pants wet at all?  This would be a clue as to whether the incident truly is an accident that cannot be stopped.  The parents must take him to the pediatrician to rule out a bowel blockage (which causes a sudden and uncontrollable urge) or a UTI.  Then you can safely decide how to deal with the behavior if it is truly purposeful.

For what it is worth, I never ask "do you have to go?" - I always ask "can you go?".  I float a couple cheerios in the toilet bowel and get the boy to try to sink them with his urine stream thereby draining his bladder.  For accidents, I always make the clean up take 4 times as long as it would have taken the child to run to the toilet - change clothes, put clothes in washing machine, take a shower, redress and clean up the accident.  Noting punitive or harsh about it - I stay completely neutral - this is simply what we have to do when anyone has an accident.  All humans are programmed to take the path of least resistance - make running to the toilet the path of least resistance.

If he is pulling out his penis and urinating on purpose, he has psychological issues that are beyond your pay grade, OP.  [/quote]

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