Usually he doesn't want them. While potty training, though, he hit a point where he was holding his bowel movements and it was starting to get painful. After several days I gave him a stool softener to help him. It did. He felt accomplished.

A week later he was a little constipated, or as he said, he needed the "yummy medicine that makes the poop move down." (His words, but I had to try not to laugh at the way he worked out how this medicine must work).

*sigh*