Playing with poop

[cincin812]

My daughter is 8 years old. She's adopted, but I've had her since 2 years of age.  She has always had behaviour problems, and now takes medication for ADD.  She does strange things all of the time, and I'm at my witts end.  Her latest thing is she plays with her poop, or does something with it, and then wipes the excess on her bed.  Her biological mother is bi-polar, her biological father has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, bi-polar, and manic depressive.  Are these things that she could inherit.  She also struggles in school, she has a hard time reading because she can't remember words.  She is very smart, but does very strange things. She's constantly going into the bathroom and staying, even at school.  She pours the soap out of the bottles and refills them with water. She hides candy and eats it in her bed, basically she puts anything in her mouth she can. Help me if you can, I'm going crazy. I have 5 other children, boys, 4 of whom are adopted, and none do these kinds of things.  Her behaviour is so off the wall, we can't leave her with anyone.
thanks.

[Mariejv84]

My son had encopresis due to bowel distention with partial bowel blockage. The doctor got the blockage out and put him on a laxative for six months so his bowels could return to normal. They did a contrast x-ray to find the blockage.

[siztuh]

I am so happy I found this group! I thought something was really wrong with my son who is now 10. He poops on himself and then hides the underwear. Sometimes he goes in the bathroom and goes to bathroom and then smears poop on the sides of the bathroom wall. He has also been taking his shirts and wiping himself (even in the bathroom) and puts them on the side of the sink. sometimes I look in the linen closet and find new washcloths way in the back with poop on them. I make him soak his underwear and wash then by hand before I wash them in the wash.
I have to make sure to check any of his underwear before I put them in the wash or I will get clumps of poo when I take the clothes out to dry. When I ask him why he does it hes says he does not know and looks like he is going to cry. For a while I was just not telling my husband, but I told him and now we are trying to figure it out. I got some good ideas from reading these posts, so thanks to everyone for posting.
He also wets the bed 3 out of 7 nights per week. I was thinking of getting one of those devices that wakes them up at night.

[ConfusedMummyTo3]

Please can somebody advise me on what to do with my 10 year old. He was recently in trouble at school for blocking the sinks with paper towels and flooding the toilets. When questioned by the teachers they also discovered that he was responsible for an incident a couple of weeks earlier when poo was smeared on the toilet walls. When asked why he did it he said it was because he was angry because he was blamed for everything in school even when it wasn't his fault. He understood that what he did was dirty and not the right way to deal with his anger.  Things seemed to improve in school after that and as far as I know this didn't happen again, however I went into the bathroom this morning and saw poo smeared on our bathroom wall, when I asked why he did it he said it was because he was angry. Whenever he's in trouble or does something unacceptable like hitting his brother, lying, stealing he just clams up and can't explain why he's done it, we just get "I don't know" with a blank look on his face its so frustrating! He is the eldest of three children and at one point thought it may be a bit of jealousy as I was pregnant with my third child when the smearing started at school. He has always been Involved and I have always made sure he felt important as I had my other children so I can't understand why he is doing these things its like he wants to hurt me, he's seen me in tears over his behaviour I've begged him to tell me why he does the things he does. His lying is out of control and I find it extremely difficult to believe anything he says anymore. He makes things up to his friends and in school and other children have started to cotton on to his tall tales. I am at my wits end now and don't know who to turn to, I'm terrified that I'm loosing my bond with him I've gone through it a million times in my head and can't come up with an explanation as to why my beautiful little boys head seems so messed up. Please help!!

[Sandman2]

   Sounds more like a 4 year old who wants his way.   Post over on the child behavior forum (start a new post) and we will try to help.

[RLightning]

My nephew might also have ADD because he keeps running around and shouting. he's 4 years old now and whenever we try to stop him he lies down and cries on the floor.  he also keeps on trying to get his toy cars and throw them to the wall

[Pumpkin1982]

My four year old daughter is pooping a little in her pants and saying she can't feel it and then today she smeared poop all over her face and body. Any advise on how to get her out of this phase. People have told me she has ADHD but has never been diagnosed. She is very smart but won't show it to teachers. Help please