Regressing in Potty Trainning?

Updated on September 25, 2009
K.B. asks from Waterloo, IA
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My son is going to be 2 in october. He has been potty trained for several months. But recently (last couple weeks) he has been starting in his pants and then tells us and goes more in the potty. Just wondering if this is normal regression or any advice to help him to stop. Laundry is a pain in the butt. I've been telling him "lets keep or pants dry" "going in pants in yucky" "Yeah your pants are dry" when we go to the potty. Any other Advice?

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K.M.

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I agree. I think two is a little young to handle it all, especially for a boy. You are lucky that you have mastered as much as you have already. I would suggest getting some very absorbant training pants to help you through this phase. Imse Vimse makes some great ones that I think would work for you. http://www.cottontailbaby.com/item_40/Imse-Vimse-Training...

What do you use at night? Is he okay through the night and this is a day only thing? I ask as one of my guys struggled a bit during the day (but not at night). Often, he was so absorbed in his activities and playing that he ignored the signals until it was too late. That might be the case with your son. Maybe proactively bringing him to the bathroom and helping him that way might work.

Good luck

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S.B.

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He is pretty young to handle being consistantly potty trained. I would consider this to be a phase that he will outgrow. You might want to try pull ups to lessen your laundry load and for outings (no sense in creating additional stress for either one of you).

B.W.

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He is most definentely NOT too young. my boys were both out of diapers by 18mos. My youngest was in undies full time by 15mos.

This is normal. Alot of kids do this even if they train at 4. I'm assuming that he's getting more independent in the potty and you are just letting him go on his own. For a short time just remind him to go every few hours.

My oldest did this for a couple months. It irked me to no end because he'd been trained for 3/4mos, and then started having a small wet spot on his undies before he'd go potty. Like your first two replies here, I got tons of 'well he's only a baby, he can't be trained at 18mos, you are doing it wrong, wait until he's older, boys are slow...' and that just ticked me off more! IKNEW he could do it, he'd been doing it, and we used EC and he got it right away.

ANYWAY, my point is, he's not too young, he's been trained for a long time and this is totally normal. Just spend a few weeks reminding him to go on a more regular schedule, and he'll get back into the habit of getting there before he dribbles. Even offering a small treat, like a mini M&M, when he gets to the potty and his pants are dry, is enough incentive at this age to get him to the potty.

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A.H.

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I'm in the process of potty training my 2 year old and one thing I read was that kids sometimes do regress a little when we start to let up on the praise. We used to be so excited when they were dry and used the toilet, but after cheering every potty attempt, it gets old! It starts to get uninteresting for the kids. Whatever you did to get him potty trained, it might be helpful to go back to some of that.
My other thought is that sometimes kids back track on skills they have learned when they are coming up on a new milestone, growth spurt, or are teething- it's around that time for those molars! Maybe he is focused elsewhere, right now. And it is normal for set backs along the way no matter what age you start training. Way to go on getting him potty trained by two! I wanted to have my son trained already, but he wasn't having it! He's very much a "do it when I feel like it" kind of kid. He's beginning to be invested and is making progress though! Yippee! Good luck, K.!

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