Potty Training - Grand Prairie,TX

They have regressions before big leaps forward. My son was peeing himself and not telling me, and then he started waking dry in the morning. It's the way it works.

No rewards, no pull-ups, keep him in undies and just hang tight. He will be back on track really fast. Also, when he has an accident, make sure it takes lots of time to clean it up, and then explain that going to the bathroom takes less time away from play! And whatever you do, don't make a bath after an accident FUN! We always do a quick, 30 second shower.

totally normal behavior to have a setback, especially at 2.5. kinda young for potty training. encourage, be patient, give love...it's entirely possible you may have to start all over...but don't ever be mad at him. at his age, as far as he's gotten, that's an accomplishment and one you should be proud of. love him and praise him as much as possible!!

You may just need to remind him (tell him it's time to go, not ask if he needs to). Kids prioritize play way higher than going to the bathroom and often leave it until the very last second and then, oops.

Start reminding him to go on a regular basis and make him go. Boys are famous for not wanting to stop what they are playing to go potty. I had one son who you could watch outside playing when he was about 3 years old and he would hop, jump anything but come in and go. Just tell your son how proud of him you are and what a good job he's done but you need him to go more often and remind him. Take him.

We put drawings (heart, square, circle,w/e) of her choice on the calendar for dry days. I never did anything negative... always positive. So when she would go on the potty, I would remind her we get to draw on the calendar tonight. If she had an accident, no drawing.

After earning 7 drawings (not always consecutive days), we would get to pick out a toy. The next step was 14 days, 28 days, etc... She eventually just loved the drawings and didn't care about the toy and the training was done.

Don't worry too much, its very normal. Whenever my sons had more than one accident in a short period of time, I'd go back to telling them when to use the potty for a day. Of course, they don't like that and would say "I don't need to go" but I would very calmly say "Yesterday you had an accident so today you need to listen to mama about when to go potty. But don't worry, I'm sure tomorrow you'll be able to go potty yourself without accidents." It seemed to work well. Good luck!