i’m feeling so mean it’s breaking my heart 😭

we’re a bit late to the party with potty training and i’ll admit it has been frustrating me a little bit because i don’t want any of the other children to say anything to him about still wearing nappies and i don’t want him feeling embarrassed but the past few days he’s been amazing and we’ve only had tiny accidents. until today when he wet himself 3 times at nursery and then when i picked him up. when he got home he told me he needed to poo so i said where do you want to do it and he said on the toilet, so i sat him on there and said i needed to just nip upstairs for a wee bit when i came back down he’d come off so i said come on i know you need a poop cos you’ve not been for a couple of days…and sat him back on and he burst out crying (i was holding him on a little bit) and was trying to get off. i just feel a bit lost with it all. he sat there crying his eyes out saying ‘i want my mummy’ 😭🥺 i just feel so mean to have tried to force him to do something he’s obviously so scared of. i said sorry after and i said i wasn’t sure what to do, mummy thought she was helping etc and we did hug it out but i just feel really guilty 😣
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I introduced a sticker chart and presents for toilet. So we would get a sticker for just sitting on the toilet, if we did a wee it'd be a sticker and a small present and if it was a poo then sticker and a bigger present/sweet. I went to the pound shop and stocked up on packs of cars, bouncy balls, dinosaurs, packs of chew/lollipops silly things like that. It gets better, takes a lot of perseverance x

Aw, you aren’t doing anything wrong at all. Potty training is a big deal for them (and us) and there are often lots of hiccups along the way. And some kids find poos much harder to grasp than wees! It sounds like you’re doing great - he will get there in the end! If you want advice with poos and potty training, check out the Eric charity. They have lots of resources and advice. There Dr Kate McGarry has lots of TikTok videos on this subject. X

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