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**Chookie** · May 27th 07, 12:49 PM posted to alt.parenting.solutions,misc.kids

In article .com,
wrote:

We have a five year old son who is still not fully potty trained. We
believe that this is an emotional problem caused by the fact that I
was living far away from home for about 18 months while I looked for a
job and a house to buy while they stayed behind. This happened when he
was about 2.5 years old.

It is extraordinarily rare for potty training problems to be related to such
things. Did you get this from a pediatric psychologist? What treatment is
being given for it? Does this problem manifest itself in other ways?

He will urinate in public restrooms and in our toilet 99% of the time.
In the last three months however, we have only been able to get him to
poop in the toilet twice. He will have a daytime accident about every
7 to 10 days. The rest of the time he seems to be on some strange
internal clock where he only will go at night in his sleep every other
day.

It is very unusual for a child that age to defecate in his sleep -- most of us
give that up in babyhood. Does he also urinate in his sleep? Has your DS
been checked for Hirschsprung's Disease and Neuronal Intestinal Dysplasia?

IOW -- go to the doctor. This is really, really not right.

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
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