Potty help!!!

[breezykc2]

Okay....so we are STILL trying to potty train...since APRIL! OMG!! [:-/]
Here is my deal....DS just turned 3 and stays dry all night and all nap time 99% of the time. He is wearing pull ups day and night...I have tried the underwear thing and he really didn't care if he had peepee on his legs after peeing......oy! We've tried the "get cold and feel grosse" pullups...he didn't care just got a rash from them...
My biggest problems are these...1. He doesn't want to stop playing to go potty...a huge inconvenience for him I guess and he will outright tell you he doesn't want to go because he's busy playing....2. He does go if we ask him he wants to sink a ship or get a sticker on a chart...but he works the system and wants to go every 15 minutes so he can be rewarded or sink things all the time! He purposely stops himself from going all the way! Oy again!

Any tips for toddlers who have awesome control and can start and stop when they want and not go on a normal schedule? Because he CAN go all day with no accidents and do well...if we take him every 15 minutes (this ended after a week for our sanity!) and let him "have fun" going peepee....

Moms at playgroup said to have him clean it up yesterday and we did that today and it went okay...so trying that now and we are wearing underwear with Thomas on it for the first time today and the whole "don't get Thomas dirty" thing is being attempted....

[mom n luv]

Okay....so we are STILL trying to potty train...since APRIL! OMG!! [:-/]..

We are so where you are I think we have been training since about April too. We are having quite a few problems still. One problem we have mastered is the refusing to go or not stopping playing to go. Any time we are about to transition to a new activity like watching Thomas or going outside or playing with a different bucket of toys. I say "You are more than welcome to do this after you have put pee in the potty." We do this especially with anything that can be link with big boydom that his baby broher can't do. There were times that he did not get to do whatever because he did not go. He had a fit but it didn't take many fits for him to realize that he needed to pee and be done with it and he could get what ever he wants. He too has grand control and was using that to manipulate. I know that this method goes out of the realm of making all potty interactions positive, but it most definiely clicked with him. If I remind him during several transitions a day we have no accidents, now we are attemping to get him to monitor himself I see no end in sight for that one.

The craziest and most frustrating thing for us currently is that he 100% potty trained... if we let him run around naked. He hasn't had an accident for probably well over a month when he has his pants off. The minute we put pants on him he is Mr. Accident.

Like I have said before is there no place where we can send them and they just come back potty trained?

I wish you great success.

[~Tara~]

I'd just try the 'clean yourself up' bit. You do nothing, or VERY little and don't make anything about it too pleasant when you do it. Meaning...no warm baths/wipes and soft talk. Just...take care of business and all with cold water.

I don't think that's being mean. But I know some who have thought it so.

But anyway...

I'd have him clean his own messes when he doesn't go in the potty.


I've had one that would only train once we let him go naked. If anything was put on him, he'd wet it. But if he was naked, he'd hit the pot every time. haha
Then the next one didn't like the naked idea. It just meant he could freely pee in the floor. Then come whine because he got some on his foot. But put underwear on him and he wouldn't wet in them. He'd run to or ask to go to the potty.


They're all different haha