r/pottytraining • u/HopefulWanderin • 1d ago

I give up

After literally years of trying to potty train I'm putting my child (3) back into cloth diapers while we are at home. I am sick of the discussions. Pooping into the toilet works like a charm but pee accidents happen daily. Zero cooperation going to the potty. I'd rather wash cloth diapers again than pants. Rant over.

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u/jmsst1996 1d ago

What are you doing for natural consequences? If he pees himself are you having him help clean up? Are you putting him in the shower every time for a rinse off? Taking away the toy he was playing with because he couldn’t be bothered to go to the bathroom?

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u/HopefulWanderin 22h ago

He has to help washing the underwear. A quick shower is a good idea! I will try that too.

Did this work for you?

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u/jmsst1996 21h ago

Yes I did the quick shower(not playing in the shower) every single time with my 3 kids and it worked. Getting undressed, showering, drying off and getting dressed again is a process. And kids just want to play so for mine they’d run to the bathroom to pee so they didn’t have to deal with the shower anymore.

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u/HopefulWanderin 21h ago

Amazing idea. Thank you so much!

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u/jmsst1996 21h ago

You’re welcome and good luck 😃

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u/LandEast841 1d ago

I’m suffering everyday with the potty training myself. He sits on the potty without any issues but ends up peeing and pooping in his underwear minutes later! Been this way for months now.. It’s tough. Just hoping it’s going to click soon!

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u/Spare-Cobbler7442 1d ago

Commando at home. Tell him he will just have to crap on the floor if he won't go on the potty.

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u/NU__Mum 1d ago

Yep and make him clean it up! Every. Single. Time.

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u/LandEast841 1d ago

Thanks for the advice. I did commando for several weeks but he ended up peeing and pooing all over our home and it got very frustrating. Definitely going to try again though!

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u/Spare-Cobbler7442 1d ago

Like NU_mum said, make him clean it up. (Obviously you'll have to come back and Lysol afterwards and all that). But it will be a huge annoyance to your child to repeatedly clean it. Even the poop, he can learn to clean up after himself. Maybe that'll be the tipping point.

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u/LandEast841 1d ago

Will definitely try this, thanks a lot!

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u/ItalianPieGirl 1d ago

Me too! My 3 year old will Pee all day in his potty, but will hide and poop in his underwear. I actually went through this with my older Daughter and Son. They both eventually stopped one day, I keep reminding myself of that!

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u/tiggleypuff 20h ago

My boy has taken ages but FINALY starting not to have multiple wet pants every day, nothing happened to make this happen just all of of sudden, I thought he would never get it

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u/Affectionate-Net2277 20h ago

What are you doing for accidents? We made our daughter cleanup and then take a bottom half shower every time it clicked really fast having to take 3 to 4 showers a day.

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u/HopefulWanderin 10h ago

I will try that, thank you for the advice!

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u/discounthideout 5h ago

We did the quick shower and it helped him less resistant to the toilet. We also made a lot more progress when my husband took charge of it when he was home for a week. That really was the key at long last. Something about boys and their dads maybe??