My Son Took a Dump in His Dump Truck !

I'm totally with Tammy C. on this. 2.5 is really young to potty train for a boy as well. He is doing so very great!!!! As frustrating as it is, this will be a great story someday. Our older daughter would "just forget Mommy" and take a dump in the middle of the living room floor; another time she "helped me clean up the potty" by stuffing little poop balls down the heat register; she also decided to poop in a tupperware container "just to see if she could do it"--believe me THAT was a surprise to find; my friend's son took a whiz through the open screen window; our other daughter used to remove her poop from her pull ups and hand it to us. They all do it...it ain't fun now..but think of the great stories you can blackmail him with when he's a teenager. Good luck Mom!!! And Clorox All Surface spray is a wonderful product for spraying everything just in case you might have missed a tinkle here or there!!!

I think punishing him at all is the WRONG thing to do. He used his dump truck like a potty. He's getting the right idea. Why not try putting a potty in his room incase this happens again. He obviously had to go after his nap, so instead of going in his diaper, he used the "potty"... I think you should be reminding him that we only go pee and poop in the proper potty, but otherwise, he's getting there. Accidents and mistakes will happen. If you punish him, you'll be sending the wrong message & he's going to get confused and regress.

Hi K.,

I feel for you, I really do.

Honestly... left to his own devices, he got creative.

Remind him, and tell him no potty in toys - toilet only.

I think the blankey or other lovey item is sacred though... Don't take that away from him :-(

I really think the time has passed for you to 'discipline' - next time, do a time out a short reminder and let him know it upsets you...

My daughter was a little Picasso with Poop - the one wall in her room was painted with a textured paint - I scrubbed those walls with a toothbrush more times than I care to recall. All the little nooks and crannies... UGH!

I definately think punishing him is wrong, especially taking away his "blanky" Is it okay for you to feel frustrated, irratated, annoyed, even a little mad about cleaning up the mess, OF COURSE. The proper way is to teach him that if he really has to go to try and make it to the potty but accidents do happen. Why also would you think your child is sick? At 2.5 I believe especially for a boy, that he is doing well. Im still training my son the proper way since he still has some accidents and he is 3.5.

Did you tell him to stay in his room? If you did then maybe he had to go to the bathroom but mom said to stay in the room so he did his business in there? Just a thought. Kids are really literal like that. I told my son when we were playing outside to keep his eye on the ball. Well, he picked up the ball and put it up to his eye. How more literal can you get. LOL

I had to check out your post as you totally made me laugh with your title of your post. I know that must have been really difficult to deal with- if only you could have waited for your husband to clean it up! I personally was very lucky that my oldest never did anything like that with her poop during potty training but I still have one more to go through potty training. I don't see anywhere in your post that you took away his blankie so I am confused as why people that are replying are telling you to not do that.

Good luck - I know it will take awhile but he will get it down eventually and it truly will make for funny stories in the future-especially his wedding day!

If I were you I would tell your son, nice job for knowing he went potty but redirect him to the proper place to go. He had to come up with his own accomadations while you were outside cleaning up.... I know sometimes when I gotta go, I gotta go! If I was 2.5 I would have probably done the same exact thing! He told you he went poo poo and he did not know this was wrong. He tried to contain it in something as close to a potty that he could. I have to say, I am kindda impressed with his thinking, he seems to be extremely smart!

As for taking his blanky away for punishment. In my opinion that is wrong. That is his security, what makes him feel safe and is always there for him. If you are going to take away something, take away the toys that he went potty in or on and tell him you have to take them away because they have to be cleaned and what not because they are to play with and not go potty in. That would be punishment enough and something that has to do with the action.

I would also be asking him constantly and bringing him to his potty to reinforce where he is to go. I am sure he knows already since he has been doing it but just in case I would also make sure he tries before naptime.

And, NO your child is not sick! Almost every child goes through this at some point or another! They do not think it is gross like we do. They do not notice the smell or the dangers of it. To them it is kindda like playdoh! Ewwwwwww now I will look at that in a whole different light playing tomorrow with it with my daughter! lol

Good luck to you and many blessings!!