My child wets his pants on purpose. Why?

Your baby is learning to feel things earlier and earlier

You ask your child if they need to go to the bathroom. Your child says no. And then wets their pants. Why? 

As they learn to use the potty, children gradually get better at sensing when they need to go. It goes like this: first, they realize it after the fact (I peed or pooped), then while it’s happening (hey, I’m peeing or pooping), and finally before it happens (I need to pee or poop). They’ll learn to sense this and recognize it in time. Your child needs your help with that.  If you ask your child if they need to go, they probably don’t actually feel it yet at that moment. So that’s not lying, but genuinely not feeling it. But it’s also possible that your child would rather not stop playing. It helps to say that your child can take a toy with them to the potty or toilet. Or that your child can go right back to playing afterward. Many children are afraid that playtime will be over if they have to go to the potty or the toilet. And so they say they don’t need to go.

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