Potty Training and My 3 Year Old Son

I don't know if this would work for you and many people dont' really want to try it, but my mom was in town for a week when my son was 2.5 and she left him bare-butt for a week. We never had to go back to diapers after that and he actually never had any accidents when he was bar-butt. He did a few accidents once we put the underwear on, but I could count those and both hands. It has been over 6 months now and he has done really well.
Good Luck!!

Try having a or a few naked days. Most kids, especially boys really don't mind diapers because they are absorbent & they really don't feel much. They also know that peeing or pooping on the floor is not ok. Try spending a few days with him wearing nothing but a big tee shirt and see if that helps

also know that boys just take longer ...
we made the huge mistake of forcing training onto z b/c we were putting him in early three school and they required potty training. basically, what we'd trained him to do was hold his stuff during school.

FINALLY we did take away dipes, and he pooped in his undies for months. and honestly, he really didn't seem to mind. and eventually, he got to where he's doing it all in the toilet. and it's still a struggle b/c he just hates going to the toilet. pee is usually fine, but poop, MAN ... but he usually still gets in his one per day, and at this point, that's all i can ask for.

we have him in a dipe at night and now, at least half the nights/week he removes the dipe middle of the night and puts on undies and is dry. i'm going to let this go for a bit b/c we're due w/number 2 in april, and as long as he's undies overnight by then, that's fine. if after a month he hasn't asked to go just undies, i'll ask him...

The best advice I can give you is to stop putting him in Pull Ups. When I was potty training both of my kids I used Pull Ups and sometimes they would go potty and sometimes they would just go in their Pull Ups. Finally I just threw out all of the Pull Ups and they learned very quickly that going potty in their underwear was not a comfortable thing. Pull Ups don't keep kids as dry as diapers, but it also doesn't give a child the full sensation of sitting in their own pee/poop. I think if your son doesn't have the option of using the potty in his Pull Up then he will quickly learn to use the potty consistently.

It will be a pain for you for a few days... But I would suggest getting rid of the pull-ups and putting him in underwear. When he has an accident, he has to be the one (in an age appropriate way of course) to clean up himself and his mess. Hang in there. It will happen eventually :)

I agree w/the other posts...get rid of the pullups. Also, you should remind him or ask him at least every 20-30 minutes if he needs to go. Or if he has an older sibling (or w/his dad) every time they go, have them take him w/them. You could even take him when you go to let him know it's ok and you all do it too. Then, when he does go really praise him! Make a big deal about it!! Show him that it really pleases you and makes you happy that he did it. Good luck!

Hi,

I was in the same spot as you about 6 months ago, and I asked the same question as you have on here. Several people directed me to this website: http://www.3daypottytraining.com/ I used this method, and it worked for me, except it took 4 days, not 3. My son was ready, but I needed to make the commitment to the time and extra effort for as long as it took to potty train him, which is what this method did for me. I hope this helps you!

D.

My youngest is probably older than most of you guys so I didn't have the luxury of pull-ups. Cloth diapers and plastic diaper pants meant when they had a wet diaper it was very wet and uncomfortable. Babies now are never really in a "wet" diaper, and that's a good thing until its potty training time. You might try cloth diapers you may be surprised how quickly they are potty trained.

I think you should definitely put him in underpants, but to make it easier for yourself, you can also put plastic underpants (Walmart) over the cotton ones. That way he will feel it and it's also possible that his clothes will stay OK after an accident.
Pullups do not help in potty training, but opposite - make them comfortable wearing diapers.
Good luck!

I would first like to say that every child is different when it comes to potty training. So I will share with you what we did for our 3 year old son that worked for us. We desided that we would go straight from diapers to underwear. We skipped pullups because that would mean anouther transition our son would have to make. We started the process on a weekend, so we could be consistant in taking on the potty every hour. We also bought the book "Once upon a potty" and started reading that to him a week prior.

We trying to make the process something fun for him. We start giving him a sticker everytime he tried to go to the potty (whether or not he actually went). Try to pick something that he will find exciting. After he was consistant on tring, we only gave him a sticker if he went to the bathroom (pee pee or poo poo). Once he was consistant with pee pee on the potty, we moved to larger stickers or transferable tatoos ( he likes the Disney Cars tatoos the best) only if he went poo poo on the potty. For some reason poo poo is the last process they get trained on.

The process took about two weeks, but now he does not have accidents during the day. We are still using a diaper at night, but we will start soon to get him trained.

My advise is not to give up potty training him for two weeks. Make sure you are consistant in your process of potty training him. Change minor things like rewards that my motivate him.

Hope this helps and good luck!

S.

I had the same thing with my soon. I had to make a game out of it. I had him drop a cheerio in the tolit and he had to pee in the hole. It taught "good" aim and it is fun for him.