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If your child is refusing to be potty trained, you may find yourself exhausted. You have been changing diapers for far too long and the idea of doing it much longer is just overwhelming. Your child may be avoiding potty training for a number of reasons, from psychological to emotional to physical reasons. Don’t be too hard on yourself or your child. It may take some time, but you will both get the hang of it soon.

After carefully treating your child for head lice, you may have sent her back to school confident that she was parasite free. However, if just a few eggs were missed, you’ll find her hair crawling with lice again in about a week. Worsening the ability to rid children of lice is the increasing resistance that lice now have to decades-old pesticide treatments, which can also be toxic to humans, says W. Steven Pray, professor at the Southwestern Oklahoma State University College of Pharmacy.

A child who is stubborn about potty training can cause frustration for mom and dad. As frustrating as it is, it’s not always possible to understand a child’s resistance to using the toilet. The toilet could be scary to the child, or the child may simply be testing boundaries and limits with mom and dad. Forcing a child to use the toilet when he is being stubborn about it will only result in tears, more refusal and a prolonged potty training period. Children under three are still learning, but for older children, including preschoolers, being stubborn about the potty can turn into full-fledged toilet training resistance. It may seem counter-intuitive to parental instincts, but sometimes the best way to handle a stubborn child who is potty training is to help the child less, not more.