Big Boy Underwear

I agree with Kat, just put away the diapers and go for it! He is ready by everything you tell us, so expect some messes at first, but it will be over with before you know it! I would take him to pick out some underwear that he likes with favorite characters and such to make it more fun for him to wear. Just be upbeat and encouraging and he will get it! Don't even mess with the pull ups, they are glorified diapers and prolong a fairly simple process. Good Luck!

J. - The way to get him to wear underwear is to throw away the diapers and put him in underwear. He's 2 1/2 and you are not going to scar him for life by making him wear underwear if he doesn't want to. He's obviously ready if he's using the potty and you will probably have some messes at first but if you transition to underwear and don't go back at all to diapers, he will learn that it's uncomfortable to go in the underwear and will be prompted to use the potty all the time instead of just when he wants to. Potty training has got to be one of the hardest things for all of us parents to do, but consistency is the key. Once you go to underwear, don't ever go back and it will go much faster. HTH K.

Try letting him pick out the underwear. Also try rewarding him when he does use the toilet. That's what I did w/ my son & it's worked.

C.

J.,
I have a very strong willed child also who would tell me if he soiled himself but refused to wear big boy pants, pull ups were like another diaper to him also. I tried forcing him because I am mom and in charge, nope didn't work... Tried letting him run naked.... nope still didn't work.
Then I just let him alone, stopped fighting with him but when he would tell me he wanted to go to school I would tell him he couln't till he wore his big boy pants all the time. He is now 3 1/2 and has been potty trained for about 3 months and a month at night, it happened when he choose it to. Basically he brought me his underwear and said I wear these now. From that point there were very few accidents and it was alot easier.
Remember he isn't going to start school with diapers let him do it when he is ready, forcing him will get you no where.
Good Luck

My 6 year old was the same way, at about that age. What I finally did was let him go "commando" It was a battle I didn't want to fight it wasn't the end of the world, although I must admit it drove my husband crazy, once he was completly potty trained I tried to introduce them again still no go and then around 3 1/2 or 4 I decided it was time, I let him pick the whole nine yards and still nothing (he was picking tighty whities) so I bought the boxer briefs, they are a little hard in the smaller sizes to find but not impossible, and he liked them I think he still felt free but allowed us to feel better about his behind be covered. Hope I helped and good luck with the potty training!

i would take him to a store and ask him if he would like to pick them out that way he thinks he had a say in it then show him that dad wears big boy underwear and so does brother and that even mom wears them that way he knows that is going to need to start when he is comfy. so take him to buy them out them ere he can get them and put them on and just let him do it in his own time. dont even think about it your ask j=him about them after they are bought. see if you dont talk about it if that makes him do it on his own.

Remember that you are the parent. Who cares if he doesn't want to. He is 2 1/2 and needs to start learning that he goes in the potty. Not just when he feels like it. Get rid of the diapers and go with the pull-ups, don't do both. Everytime you go potty, take him with you. Everytime daddy goes make him take him. With boys it helps them to see daddy doing it. We tried potty prizes but they didn't work. Tried the whole target in the toilet and id didn't work. I got fed up and threw out the pullups and amazing there was never an issue after that.