Your Child and Encopresis Updated Spring 2001 by Joni Bosch, PNP Toilet training is hard. They have accidents. But most children are potty trained by age four. Older children may have accidents if they are sick. Healthy kids also have accidents.
Potty training teaches children to use the toilet.
Accidental bowel movements. They learn how their body feels when it is time to go to the bathroom. But sometimes they can't feel the signals. Sometimes a child doesn't go to the bathroom regularly. The colon is never empty.