Potty Training --Thought We Were near the End!

Many kids don't get that they need to stop playing to go to the bathroom. And they leave it until - oops - they just won't make it. We trained my son at 25 months. It took under a week until he was 99% there. But if he was having too much fun, and no one reminded him to go, he would leak a little, run to the bathroom and not quite make it. There is nothing wrong with telling him 'it's time to go to the bathroom' and taking him. We did not ask DS, we told him (if we asked, he never had to go). And of course, playing is way more fun than stopping to use the potty. I see no reason for you to go back to diapers or anything like that. I would give up the rewards. And I would not expect him to go on his own without telling you for a while.

A friend of mine had this issue... she was given some good advice that worked for her.
The advice was to put diapers back on and not say one single word about the potty! Not one! Just put the diapers on and walk away.
The child will miss the attention and start to hate the diapers. They will soon ask for undies and to use the potty.
She said within a week her son was asking about the potty and why he can't use it ect. She sat down and said if you want to get out of the diapers and use the potty again you can't have anymore accidents and no more diapers ever again. Sure enough it worked.

Can't say it will work on every child, but it did for my second. My first child was a dream to train, but not #2. We modified the above advice a bit in that we told our DD that she was acting like a baby when she wet her pants, so she had to wear diapers like a baby. We told her to tell us when she was ready to be a big girl again. Then we dropped the subject all together. I would say in about 2-3 weeks she was asking to go much more often on her own and while playing. We would say nope you are a baby, so go in your diaper. When you are ready for no diapers we can talk more. Sure enough she said no more diapers. We are going on 2 weeks now with ZERO accidents. We just can't believe it.

Anyhow good luck in whatever direction you go... such a hard thing to master!

If it makes you feel better, I see moms posting similar issues all the time on here, so I would tend to think it is normal and not some kind pf physical issue. I think when it comes to learning how to use the potty, there really is no normal!

My son trained, then stopped caring about being wet. It wasn't until his sister trained that he decided to go pee in the toilet too. Your son may be physically ready, but not psychologically ready. By all means, check with the dr so that possibility is out of your mind. It is usually as good to eliminate the 'probably's as the 'probably not's. Either way narrows the field towards finding the true reason.

Dana said it for me ; )

I'll tell you what I told another mom who asked about potty training. My sons took at least 4-6 months to potty train, and I hear that's pretty normal. Everyone potty trains eventually, but some take longer than others. Lots longer. It's a frustrating process, but it's a process, withe steps forward and steps back.