Obsessed with poo?

The question often posed to me is, why are kids so obsessed with poo and the potty? Well, the answer is some what obvious if you really think about it. Toddlers are obsessed with poo because it is one of the few things they can control. No one in the history of man kind has been able to force a human to poo on command. If you think about a child's day to day life from their perspective, it is controlled from the second they get up to the time they go to bed. Unless your a free spirited hippy sort of parent. I try to give as many choices to my kids as possible but they can't control everything, so there in lies to obsession with poo.
My "princess" daughter would hold hers in for days. She would sit on the couch rolled up in a ball in pain from all the toxic waste in her body, because it was unlady like, in her opinion, to poo. We would have to put her on the toilet and she would scream bloody murder until she could no longer hold the glob of toxic waste that smelled like death, in her body any longer. We had her on an adult does of laxatives as directed by our doctor, and she would still manage to hold it in for four days at a time. That's what I call determination! All we could do was watch for the signs and put her on the pot as needed. I thought that Children's Aide would be called at one point. She sounded like she was being tortured, but I assure you the torture was all on us.
My other daughter was three and a half before she would agree to go on the potty. She was fully trained for wetting but didn't think it was necessary to poo on the toilet, so she flat out refused. Finally, I told her that her dance class instructor would not allow her to go to class if she pooped her paints as only big girls that went poo on the toilet could attend. She was trained in two days and never had an accident since.
The moral of the story is, do whatever it takes. If you have to bribe, withhold something, beg for mercy. Whatever will work is whatever will work, and you don't have to feel guilty because some children are stubborn enough they would make Dr. Phil curl up in a ball and cry. He just never met my little "princesses". Have a good day and never take life seriously. It's over before you know it. lol

Sally