A member asked:

Been potty training my daughter since she was two years old, she's now four &will sit on the potty, do nothing,is she being stubborn or something else?

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Dr. Johanna Fricke answered

Specializes in Pediatrics - Developmental and Behavioral

Adaptive/Self-Help: Delays require medical, neurological & developmental assessment. Medical causes may require referral to a specialist. Behavioral causes from parents' accidentally having reinforced toileting refusal may require referral to a child psychologist & a pediatric GI to manage stool-withholding & constipation wth techniques like those in comments, if health is fine & development is otherwise typical.

Answered 8/3/2015

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