 | I am a stay-at-home mother of two boys, ages three and six. Our six year old has NO behavioral problems at all and attends school for kindergarten. However, our three year old son has been developing several behavioral issues in the past three months. He is loved with hugs and kisses all the time and could possibly be over-spoiled, compared to our six year old. We have been potty training for almost a month now. His interest in using the potty increased tremendously in the past two weeks. He refuses to potty in his diaper and rarely has accidents during the day. However, when I put him down for a nap (not every day) or at night when he sleeps we put a diaper on him so he doesn't wet the bed. He understands this, but still announces his disapproval and begs for his 'underwear'. What has occured about five times now, is during the time when I think he's taking a nap, he will take off his diaper and find something in his room to urinate or poop in. For example, he uses his bins that holds his toys or an opened toy of some kind. He does this AFTER I've given him the chance to go potty BEFORE his nap. Now he's going as far as to 'hide' the container once he does his business in it -- knowing full well that it's wrong. The other side to all of this is he has become sneaky. He will sneak candy and hide behind something to eat it. He purposefully will do something he's not supposed to --- and it's always something we've told him over-and-over not to do. We have used verbal dicipline, spanking, taking away toys, taking away tv, and time out. NOTHING is working. He still continues to 'get into things' all the time and my entire day is spent watching him like a hawk. I can't even take out the trash without him getting into something. Anyone have any suggestions??? |
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