Why can't my almost 6 y/o wipe his own butt yet 😫 he's so behind in everything

Lol its quite common my 7 year olds underwear are always a shocker. Little boys are usually not skilled in this area

@twice_blessed in 5k, the kids shouldn't be that bad on them. So many of them don't know what's really going on with each other quite yet at that point. Lol only time I've ever seen kids that age consistently picking at each other is when there's some big personality conflict between them.

@jessicavillanueva92 very true. My own mom often forgot to pick us up and my grandma had to get us

@twice_blessed I know. :( we all wished they wouldn't send the kids on buses with dirty pants like that. It can't be that hard to call parents even at the end of the day and hold them in the office. But I get some parents can sometimes take hours to come get kids after being called about sick or kids with accidents. :(

@jessicavillanueva92 that's awful.

I would send extra clothes and some flushable baby wipes with him the first month or so though. And extra clothes are always just a good idea anyway. Lol kids have accidents sometimes even at school.

worked at an after school program and saw a lot of kids have accidents right before school let out so they got sent on the bus with us with pooped in pants on. The poor kid had to just ride like that til we got back and called parents since the school either ignored it or just told them to wait til they got to after school. :( and the rest of the poor kids who had to be cramped on the bus with the smell.

@jessicavillanueva92 I really hope so. I'm terrified he's gonna be bullied. And I'm almost certain he's gonna be put in special ed.

He'll probably pick it up better once he starts school. He'll realize no one can help him with it there and all his friends go on their own too. He'll want to do it by himself seeing that they do it by themselves.

@twice_blessed its so gross but at least he is really trying. I tell him to make sure he washes his hand 3x!!!

@mama_kat89 same 🤢 lol

@twice_blessed He will probably learn to hold it in til he gets home. Mine does that.

Yeah they can't and won't help him. I'm so sorry no one is helping.

My 5 year old tends to get it all over 😷🤢😲 we got him flushable wipes. That helped but sometimes he still needs help

@badadvicemom yes it helps some but I'm mainly worried about him starting school. He can't yell for help then

@lovelily its so frustrating. Especially with him about to start school

@twice_blessed I'm so sorry. And I'm sorry to kick a dead horse, have you tried wet wipes? Maybe that'll help get a little more cleaner?

Hahahah my 8 year old can't even do it yet. Not properly anyway. 😐😑

@badadvicemom I stopped helping him a year ago but its only resulted in him not wiping well enough and yelling for me to help. Which I'll go in there and tell him all over again how to do it but he just isn't getting it. Yes and they sent him to a phycologist but said most testing has to wait til he's in school. I'm so over the doctors here

Have you asked his pediatrician? Once I stopped doing it for my son he learned real quick.