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5-year-old boy who refuses to have his diaper changed. Need advice
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<blockquote data-quote="emns" data-source="post: 765056" data-attributes="member: 33216"><p>Thank you, Deni D, for your detailed response.</p><p></p><p>I worry a lot about him not being able to handle things himself, like telling me when he's hungry. I'm afraid to rely on him to speak up or ask for help when needed. Instead, I find myself constantly asking and nagging him, which stresses him out and irritates him. My mother and friends have mentioned several times that I treat him like a baby.</p><p></p><p>The really challenging part, as I mentioned earlier, is all the diaper changes. He never tells me when he's peed/pooped, so I end up checking very often. I'm not sure why, but it makes me very stressed, and my mom has told me several times that I can't keep doing that. He's a big boy and will definitely tell me when he feels uncomfortable. If I see that he's pooped and ask him, he just denies it. He's not interested in getting changed.</p><p></p><p>His new behavior of rocking/sliding on his bum after pooping is something that doesn't happen every day or every time. This week, it happened twice as far as I can remember. Both times, he was in his room when I happened to see it. So, I went in and asked him what he was doing. He first smiles at me as usual and then wants me to leave. Previously, it happened when I was nearby, but now he seems to sneak away more. I thought he did it to provoke me because he knows I react immediately.</p><p></p><p>It's difficult to know how to behave in these situations and how to get him to change his behavior.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="emns, post: 765056, member: 33216"] Thank you, Deni D, for your detailed response. I worry a lot about him not being able to handle things himself, like telling me when he's hungry. I'm afraid to rely on him to speak up or ask for help when needed. Instead, I find myself constantly asking and nagging him, which stresses him out and irritates him. My mother and friends have mentioned several times that I treat him like a baby. The really challenging part, as I mentioned earlier, is all the diaper changes. He never tells me when he's peed/pooped, so I end up checking very often. I'm not sure why, but it makes me very stressed, and my mom has told me several times that I can't keep doing that. He's a big boy and will definitely tell me when he feels uncomfortable. If I see that he's pooped and ask him, he just denies it. He's not interested in getting changed. His new behavior of rocking/sliding on his bum after pooping is something that doesn't happen every day or every time. This week, it happened twice as far as I can remember. Both times, he was in his room when I happened to see it. So, I went in and asked him what he was doing. He first smiles at me as usual and then wants me to leave. Previously, it happened when I was nearby, but now he seems to sneak away more. I thought he did it to provoke me because he knows I react immediately. It's difficult to know how to behave in these situations and how to get him to change his behavior. [/QUOTE]
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