10 week old puppy housebreaking

Question
Kristen,
I saw a similar question asked by someone in 2006.  I am currently working at housebreaking a 10 week old bichon frise puppy.  I have him in a comfortable crate when I'm either not home, or at night when we are sleeping.  I'm temporarily not working, so the only time he is having accidents in his crate is at night when he's in the crate for more than a few hours.  During the day, he never messes in the crate.  However, he is pooping all over the hard wood floors...and he is not getting it, despite my desparate attempts of carrying him, mid-poop (is there such a word?) sometimes with it dropping onto the floor, while I am trying to get him either onto a puppy pad or outside in time (whichever is closer).  As far as urinating, he is making it to the puppy pad and appears to understand that this is the right place to go, but lately I am catching him urinating on the hardwood floor, far away from the puppy pad anyway.  I wonder how much has to do with the fact that he is 10 weeks old and doesn't have any continence yet until 12 weeks??

So tell me if I'm doing this right (according to my research):
1) I have him in his crate when I'm out (max 3-4 hours at a time
2), I have him in the crate at night as well (12am to 7am).  I don't give him water or food 2-3 hours before bed, so the puppy pad in his crate is often clean and dry in the morning.  
3) I watch him when I'm home while he has free roam of house with puppy pad in the middle of the kitchen and one by the outside door.  When I see him sniffing or circling, I take him outside.  I also take him immedicately after eating his meals (he is extremely fast to poop after eating)
He is taken out several times a day ( every few hours)
4) I scold him only when I catch him in the middle of pooping or peeing...not afterward when I'm just finding a mess.  While scolding, I take him outside to finish if he needs to, or just for him to get the point.
5) When my husband and/or I catch him doing the right thing (going on the puppy pad or outside,) we really make a song and dance out of our praise.

Why does it seem that he knows what to do, but he's going wherever he wants to in the house anyway??
Is this breed a little more stubborn to housebreak?
I guess I'm asking, is this what he should be doing at 10 weeks when we've already had him since 7 weeks old?

Any input to help him to "get it" would be great.

Kristen.  

Answer
Probably what you could also do,and works really well is to keep him in the crate all of the time,except to feed him,play with him,take him out ect and do that for two weeks and slowly let let him out a bit more,and if accidents return back in the crate he goes full time for another week


Also when you let him out,it won't hurt to put puppy pads down,and maybe move them over to where he is having accidents