You feel like you was on the right track. You child was finally going to the potty and the suddenly stops and is having accidents all the time. You ask yourself, why? Let’s start by asking your child why and see if he or she will tell you. But your child doesn’t seem to want to open up or they say they don’t know now start to think about all the things that could have change in the last couple of weeks that could have caused stress to your child and is now having them regress to this behavior.
So you say nothing has changed so that can’t be it now lets see if your child will talk to you about maybe there was a moment where your child was constipated and experienced a painful BM which is causing them to not want to go to the bathroom at all.
If that doesn’t seem to be the case next think about the last time your child had an accident, how did you react? Did you make your child feel shameful and guilty? This type of negative reinforcement will lead to your child having accidents and not telling you because they do not want to be shamed again. So you think back, nope, didn’t shame them have been very positive so what’s next.
Well your child might just be to busy to stop and go to the bathroom some children are so engrossed in their cartoons or games that they do not want to stop and go to the bathroom. So in this situation you have to remind them to go if you feel they need to be going. Other children, if they have siblings, might feel like if they leave their toy it will be taken or something will happen to it while they are gone.
If this is the case reassure your child that you will watch it while they go to the bathroom and assure them that any time they need to go their toy or project will be there when they get back. The most important thing to remember is to always stay positive and your child will come around.
