A new book designed to encourage younger children to use the toilet instead of withholding their poo. |
This set of
books places a greater emphasis on discouraging the reader from withholding
their poo, a major cause of soiling, and encouraging them to go to the toilet
instead, including when they are at school or away from home. The lead character – I shall use Amelia from
the Girl version of the book for convenience – frequently withholds her poo
when she doesn’t want to stop playing, and feels totally unable to poo in the
school toilets, or the toilets at other people’s homes as well as public
toilets.
This, of
course, means that Amelia often poos her pants, which she finds very embarrassing
and upsetting, especially when it happens at school or in public. She also wets herself occasionally, when the
poo she has withheld in her body presses on her bladder. She is unable to change herself when she is
messy and is reliant on an adult to do it for her. She finds it particularly humiliating when
she has to be cleaned up in public toilets or baby changing rooms, or
when she has to wait in the school corridor for her mother to come to change
her pull-up, which her teacher insists that she wears at school.
Can Toby, the hero of the Boy version of the book, find the courage to go to the toilet every time he needs to poo, even at school? |
I also
designed a series of ‘posters’ to go between some of the chapters to reinforce
the message of the book and encourage good bladder and bowel health and
bathroom hygiene. These are similar to
those used in the book I wrote the previous year, News from the Loos.
The
American Edition of this book is titled Help! I Poop My Pants. The story is identical to the British version, but the
vocabulary, spelling and phrasing of the American Edition has been adapted to
make it familiar to North American readers.
Both the British and American editions are available in paperback and
for the Kindle and Kindle apps. Initial
sales of the books have been encouraging, and I really hope that these new books help younger children who have soiling problems, as well as their parents and
carers.
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