Potty training advice (boy)

 So, we potty trained our 2.5 year old about 2 weeks ago. We used the "toilet training in less than one day" book and it went quite well. He seldom has accidents, although we do have to promt him some as we can't totally rely on him to remind himself to go just yet. All in all he's doing pretty good. We do use diapers at night, because he still pees a fair amount overnight and he's a really hard sleeper, so I just don't think he would be able to wake himself up to go. 
The problem is the poop. We can't seem to get him to poop in the potty, he always goes in his pants. Not only that, but he will happily not tell us he's pooped and if you ask him, he'll deny that he has. 
The book was no help, since it just said that you don't have to do anything special to teach them to poop since poop usually happens along with peeing. uh, no. In fact he NEVER poops at the same time as he pees. 
I've tried making him stay on the potty for several minutes after he pees, just in case. Nope, he could sit there for 10 minutes and then 10 minutes later, poop in his pants. I've tried paying close attention and rushing him to the potty as soon as he's made some poop, but if we interrupt the process, it just stops.
I've tried rewards for pooping, doesn't help. 
ANY ideas as to how we can master this??

having trained one and in the midst of training the 2nd boy.. all I can say is to give it some time. Boys will learn at their own pace and pushing it will only make them more stubborn about it. Just praise praise and more praise for all the successes and try your best to ignore or gently discourage the setbacks. It took a little while after the successfull peeing to get our oldest to poop and my 2yr old is the same way. He has pooped once on the toilet and thats cause I caught him at the perfect moment.. now he hides to poop so I wont take him to the toilet! One day he will be ready and willing to poo in the meantime just be patient. potty training is one of those jobs I loathe as a mom lol. Good luck and I hope you get some good potty trips soon

well i dont have any advice but my nephew wouldnt poop on the toilet until he was 5. They were trying to get him potty trained completly before going to school but he just wouldnt do it. He was excited about going to school and was told that he cant go until he poops on the toilet. low and behold he started and was able to do it in a few days. It seems like they do it when they are ready to. Good luck!

It's tricky with boys  (having had one of each, at least in my experience, my son was more difficult).  He may simply not be ready.  One thing you might try is half an hour to 45 min. after eating get him to sit on the potty and ask him if he can make any poopies splash the toile****er....   Otherwise, I'm afraid I don't have any other tips.

Good luck and if it isn't working now.  Wait a bit and save yourself and him the frustration!!!  : )

Emad was almost 3.5 before he was trained to 2. 5 is great! Poop was the hardest and like you said he would not tell me he had to go. Finally one weekend I left him without any diaper, pull up, underwear, nothing. If he had to go it was gonna be on the floor...scary I know....and it did happen...once....but only once...we got him a frog potty he really liked and he actually went in the restroom and went himself and then came and told me...I was shocked but did the praise dance like nothing before, when he saw how happy I was he was happy. We also had a thomas the tank engine sticker reward chart and he could put the stickers on when he went and he liked that. It takes time but I think you are doing well.

I see a pattern here with the boys! My son will be 3.5 at the end of this month and finally is potty trained (unless I forget to pull the pull-up off of him after he wakes up, then he will pee in it....but finally has the poop down to a tee!) He would go pee on the potty easily even before he was 2 years old, but would NEVER poop on the potty. I let both go for a while and would put him on the potty time to time or ask if he wanted to go. I found he never had a problem to go pee, but the poop he would never do. He finally started to poop shortly before my baby was born, but would have accidents here and there. I thought for sure he would retract once the baby was born, but he actually got better and would go all on his own! Now he goes all the time without prompting and will announce he has to go and will yell "I'M DONE" after he goes to help getting wiped (he even will wipe himself time to time). My oldest son was also hard to potty trained and was between 3.5-4 before he was trained, but we dealt with constipaton issues with him and he would have "spills" in his underware until he was 10 years old. I think trying to hard to potty train him before he was fully ready didn't help the matter with his constipation and I feel he held it in because he was scared to go and I tried to push.....so you DEFINATELY don't want that to happen!

I think you should give it some time. It sounds like he is not quite ready or there yet and I feel for your sanity (as I did mine), it's not worth trying to fight him to go. As you can see from all the previous posters, they pretty much had the same problem and their boys also weren't potty trained to around 3.5. I know it sucks and you want it now....but you will get nowheres if you try to pu****!

I agree with the PP's. My son wasn't fully potty trained until he was 3-3.5 yrs old. Pooping in the toilet is harder to achieve, especially for a 2.5 yr old. Pediatricians actually will tell you that it isn't impossible but honestly the body isn't fully capable of "holding" urine or poop for toilet training until the age of 2 years old. Give him some time. There's no harm in trying to potty train at 2.5 yrs old but just don't expect him to be able to hold his poop/pee and make it to the bathroom or even go in the potty for that matter. Make games out of it for now and then he will be more willing to participate. He may also becoming to the stage were some things are embarrassing to him. My son at that age, even though we would "try" to go to the potty would hide in his room or behind the couch to poop. LOL! Seems annoying right now for you but now I look back and chuckle, MAN!!! I miss those days when he was that small. Try to enjoy everything, even the potty training and just take one day at a time. Before you know it you will be sending him off to Kindergarten and he'll be too big to need your help anymore. =( 

i bribed him with candy, hot wheelz and popsicles... and a sticker chart.. finally after 2-3 months he came along and go the hang of it... even if he sat to "try".. he got an m&m... if he actually went he got a popsicle... if he went 3 times in a row he got to pick a car... when he went 3 weeks with no poopy accidents- we went to target and he got to pick out any toy he wanted ... and he got to pick a new pack of underware ( which ever he wanted)..

Thanks for all the responses! I guess it just needs to be a matter of being patient. As far as the peeing goes, he's doing great, so I guess I should be happy with that for a while. This weekend he had a poo accident while we were out at the park, and it actually seemed to bother him. Maybe because we were in public. I'm thinking of that as a positive sign!