Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 8/18/2005 8:02:00 PM Author: Terri Subject: oh puleeze! Poor muscle tone??? hahaha That is just a silly idea that you are using for an excuse. It must be embaressing to have a big kid pooping on himslef, and I know you must be frustrated, but this idea of the child as a victim of his muscles is absurd! The toilet is not a complex idea. Pooping is not a huge mental challenge. Video games require much more brain power, and these kids who poop in their pants seem to have no problem with more pleasant activities that require focus and control. A four year old does not need mommy to sit him on the toilet! He does not need mommy to dress him! He should be doing all these things himself, and any parent who continues to treat a 4 year old as a toddler is doing a disservice to the child for the parents own sense of purpose. I do not believe that any child of normal mental ability and normal emotional development, who is past the toddler years, is incapable of knowing he has to poop. Parents who pretend that is the case will suffer with other problems in the future as their child develops a greater ability to manipulate them. Name: Email: Subject

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