Enemas for potty training - Do they work?

I think my mother and grandmother gave me enemas, as a small child, for potty training reasons. Do you think the method works or does it just create klismaphiliacs? (or potty trained klismaphiliacs)

Have prostate --- Will respond positively to most things stuck up my ass!

Fredmushell;Your mothers and grand mothers potty training enemas must have been positive for you because you are enjoying enemas otherwise you would not be asking questions on this site.As far as child abuse,your mother and grandmother probably felt enema were the only way to potty train a young child because enemas were the only way they knew at the time.Give them some slack.

Let the good times FLOW.w/m73yrs/Western Ma

I agree that the enema once was sometimes used as an aid to potty training, maybe out of frustration by the mom and not for purposes of abuse. I was told I was given enemas twice when I became constipated by holding back, maybe to try to show independence.

In the 1950s and before, the pre-Pampers era, we were trained long before what is common today.

My kids potty trained on their own quite nicely and I would never have considered giving them one unless absolutely necessary.

There was one time that I wished I'd had small bulb, as our daughter was badly constipated, but we took care of the problem without an enema.

I didn't use this kind of method, but I've come around to the idea. If the kid obstinately refuses to do on the potty, and becomes constipated as a result, it's probably a good idea to start giving them regular enemas or suppositories. That way you're not only making sure the excrement comes out of them frequently enough to keep them healthy, you're making sure they have plenty of opportunity to get used to the potty.

IMHO too may people are too quick to jump to the abuse conclusion these days. The original poster "thinks" it was a potty training thing, how many of you remember your own potty training, I sure don't. Of course I have read story after story about how at one time in the "golden age" enema's were given for such disperate reasons as a sneeze, or a hangnail, or because the receiver hadn't gone for 3 days, yet not one of these reasons was called abuse. Parent are not perfect, not one of us ever has been or will be. Raising kids is a demanding, complicated, and thankless job and every single one of us does the best we can with what we have at the time. Life just doesn't hand you black and white situations, it rarely comes down to the good answer or the bad one, it's usually a case of picking the least wrong choice you have, never knowing if it will be deemed "wrong" in the future. Whatever actually happened it apparently didn't hurt anyone.