Messages By: momfourboy

I went through this with my daughter, with the constipation from birth to age 6, and she saw a doctor regularly since birth, it took my daughter at least twice as long as normal to potty train, she wore pull-ups up to age 5, she was on the laxative until age 6, i sympathize with these people, it is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO frustrating, and you feel SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO bad as a parent every time they get a sore bottom, but you take care of it, and make sure that they are clean so that that they don't get sore and don't get smelly. You make sure they take the laxative every single day, because if you don't and they have a hard bowel it will be painful and will set them back. But i must "judge" as you say.  YOU DON'T WAIT UNTIL AGES 9 AND 15 BEFORE SEEING A DOCTOR FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE!!!!!!!!

Dr. Phil

You missed the boat on this one! As a teacher, I would be appalled that the parents haven't resolved this before sending those kids to school. I agree they most likely have a medical issue, at least they do now. But it didn't start out that way.

If you look closer, which Dr. Phil never addressed, they obviously have eating and exercise issues as well. They eat and sit in front of the TV and the computer. How come Dr. Phil never addressed these issues.

SOLUTION:  Make the kids do their own laundry! That would solve it very quickly. ALSO, using Dr. Phil's own advice, find out what their currency is - video games and TV, and cut them out. NO MORE until they stop. I would also refuse to get them any new clothes, let them where the crap!

COME ONE, Dr. Phil, why didn't you take a hard line with this one???

it is terrible that you are saying things that you don't know what your talking about.  i didn't see the show but was told by my sister to pull up the site and read it as it is what my son has.  we are a very well off family and i have three buitify children age 12, 6+5 and when my dad died two years ago this lack of pooping started with my 6 year old then 4 and is still going on today.  we have been to the specialist and nothing works.  he was normal with pooping everyday and now went for weeks without pooping and blew up like an ethopian and now still has these staining problems all because my father (his best friend) died.  and now you are blaming me for this??? don't you think that i want this fixed also.  not to mention having my dad back!

by the way- if it's any of your business i've tried having him punished, clean himself, rewarded him, taken all his toys from his room- you name it we tried it.  if you can fix this problem, please let me know!!  believe me i went threw all of the emotions of thinking this was his problem not medical, and i sure would love having my life back also.

It really is frustrating to see the messages that trash my wife and I because we sought out help for our boys.  To be accused of abusing our kids really is way out of line especially since the ones doing the accusing are usually making comments like we need "...a good A** whoopin'" or we "need to have or butts kicked." 

After spending countless hours with Dr.'s and counselors , not to mention thousands of dollars for appointments, we get the joy of being trashed by people who have NO CLUE what we have gone through. 

Do you honestly think that we went on the show to embarass ourselves and the kids? 

When I emailed Dr. Phil about this, the 3rd pediatrician that we had seen told us that they would outgrow the problem.  To my wife and I, that was completely unacceptable.  I figured maybe that someone from the show would email back some links and info to point us in a different direction.  Laxatives and pills, enemas and ignoring the problem (the suggestion of one Dr.) did nothing to help. 

When one of shows producers came to our house to interview us for the show, he told us that he thought that the boys were polite and well-adjusted young boys that had a problem that hopefully Dr. Phil could help us with. 

I know that I can sleep at night knowing that my wife and I have tried to help the kids get through this.

I have 3 children - now 22, 20 and 16 and never once did I leave them unattended in a car. 

What has a snow storm got to do with leaving your child, that you chose to bring into this world, in a car by themselves.

You chose to have the children, so "running around with a baby and a toddler " is something you should have been used to doing.

Do not play God with your childrens lives - never leave them in a car.