I worked when I had my first two kids and my babysitter pottytrained them. With my third child, Shane, I was not working and the pottytraining was down to me, which I dreaded and had a hard time being consistant with his pottytraining routine.
It got pretty bad, with Shane pooping on himself and at one point getting poop on the carpet in his room. Around this time I was also pregnant with my fourth child and my mother decided that she would take the kids for the last 6 weeks of my pregnancy.
Mom and Dad decided that they would get Shane pottytrained. And they did this by using corpral punishment. Anytime Shane pooped or peepeed on himself he would get a whoopin (spanking). Yes I should have spoke up (I was slightly deranged) and told them not to whoop Shane, but I didn't, with the result being that the first time Shane pooped on himself, after he got back from from my parents, he started to cry and got very upset because he thought I was going to whoop him.
Well I was a little upset but it was because my little boy was tramatized and it might make the potty training even worst and I told him that I would never hit him just because he pooped on himself, we weren't going to do that....ever.
So after he pooped on himself, I think the fourth time after he got back, in pure desperation I told Shane that I was upset that he pooped on himself and that if he could just get his poop in the potty it would make Mommie very happy.
And wonder upon wonders, my little boy tells me he has to poop, we run to the bathroom, he poops and looks up at me and says "I made Mommie happy!"
This happened a year ago and my little boy Shane still tells me when he has to poop and he always tell me "I made Mommie happy".
Mrs Jones