Potty Training Question - San Francisco,CA

Lots of kids aren't nighttime trained until 4, 5, 6, even 7 or 8 so I'd make my life easier and use the pullups at night til the day thing gets smoother. Try taking him at designated times, upon waking, before his meals, before leaving the house, and before bed, etc.
Try a reward/sticker chart. Every night he pees before getting into bed, he gets a sticker then after 5....have a small basket of "goody prizes" for him to choose.
He can always put his undies OVER his pullup for bed, right? :)

Night training often happens as a separate step, and often months (or even years) later than daytime success. Kids can't help this – the bladder and nervous system just need whatever time they take to mature. Poop training is also frequently a separate stage of training, because the signals and the effort required are different.

The usual wisdom is to wait until the child has had two weeks of dry nights to go for underwear at night. Too many 'failures' can be hard on a child's sense of maturity and competence, and it sure does make for a lot of sleep disturbance and laundry. I'd just work on the daytime success first, and let your son know it's just fine to sleep in diapers until his body is ready to stay dry at night. No amount of effort on his part will make a significant difference.

The evening walk is a nice idea. Some kids respond quickly to taking a drink, hearing running water, or splashing their fingers in a bowl of water. You might give those a try while he's sitting on the potty.

In case this is useful, acting over-the-top excited about every potty success can backfire emotionally. Your quiet confidence that he'll get it when he's ready will do a better job of helping him stay calm and focused on sensations than anxious anticipation of cheering (or whatever). The problem is that the opposite of all that celebration, when he doesn't have success, feels even more like failure. And failure eventually leads to reluctance to even try.

Good luck to you both. Sounds like he's getting closer!

I recommend to just focus on your day training because you can't train for night...it just happens when they are ready. You can help them to potty train during the day but night is something they come to on their own and is not coached.. Some children do actually become succssful at night at the same time they day train but it seems they are the exception rather than the norm. Good luck

I think you should focus on training during the day and leave him in pull-ups at night because you don't want to force him to stay dry when he's not ready to at night. You don't want to set him up to fail, and he will sense failure if he's repeatedly wetting the bed at night. A good time to put him in underwear is when he wakes up dry for a few days in a row. I'm assuming he's in underwear when he's awake, which is great. I suggest you encourage him to drink lots of fluids in the morning and afternoon, after he wakes up so he will have the need to go 2 hours later. I'd also encourage him to go to the bathroom with you when you have to go, like a potty break. Even if he doesn't need to go, seeing you go regularly might encourage him to go more frequently. Consistency is key, and he seems to enjoy the potty. Keep it up, mama!

Night time dryness is out of control of the child. His body needs to develop to the point of that ability. I would only work on daytime training, as there is no such thing as nighttime training.

My mom always ran the water in the sink or tub when we were on the potty and it seemed to work to get the flow going!

my brother tried something and my friends who are having the potty training problem are working on it too. dont give him anything to drink for a few hours before bed, like if he goes down at 9, stop the fluids at 7, of course make sure he goes before going to bed, but then he can wear his new pants to bed and you will have minimal problems with the wet bed.

i've told my daughter (3.5), "when you wake up with a DRY pullup for several days, then we'll know you're ready to sleep without it."

hope it works.

good luck mama!

We started training my son when he was about the same age as yours. However, it wasn't until my son was around 3.5 years old that things started to click for him. Your son actually seems to be doing well - mine wouldn't even sit on the potty. Regular encouragement, tons of praise, and some potty prizes and/or a sticker chart to show him and you his progress might help.
Re: peeing at night - I've read that kids have to physiologically develop to a point that their bodies won't allow them to pee while sleeping. I recommend encouraging a trip to the potty before bedtime, reducing amount of drinks given just before bed, and continuing to use a pullup until you have regular daytime success.

I offered my son a penny every time he went potty on the potty. Maybe that would help. I also keep my kids in pull-ups at night because I have bed wetters and changing the sheets is too much work and laundry. Good luck!!

My 5 year old son still wears Goodnights at night but does fine in the daytime (even if he happens to nap). I have told him when he wakes up dry 3 days in a row he is ready to try sleeping without the Goodnight. I think it is a separate thing though daytime training took a while too. Someone suggested putting the pull up over the underwear for nights or long outings.

We would put our children on the toilet at night before we went to bed to prevent them having accidents, they never even woke up just went as we talked to them. Just know that having urin in the bed means not only extra work but the mattress won't last as long.
As the mother of 5 I have learned that some of our children and now the Grandchildren find that the sound of pee hitting the water or poop hitting the water and splashing thier bottom upsets and scares them. So it will take patience and time for it to come together and often little boys take longer to have full control of thier bodies. Bribes work well too as my granddaughter just reminded me.