DS fine without pants, but has accidents when wearing them.

[MrsChemist]

DS has been doing really well with potty training without anything on. He has few accidents and just takes himself to the potty.

As soon as you put pants on him though he doesn't go, until he has an accident and gets upset. He won't tell me until he is actually weeing and I ask him if he needs to go regularly and he does a very teenagery 'no, mummy!'

I've taken to just taking his underpants off, and he'll usually go straight to the potty (though should I ask, he'd say he didn't need to go) but this won't always work.

An I doing the right thing? I keep telling him that it's not like a nappy and he needs to tell me when he needs to go, but it just goes in one ear and out the other.

[Ruthchan]

This is quite normal.
How long did you leave him without pants?
When my DS had this problem, I took the pants off for a few more days to help him separate the idea from his nappies.
That seemed to help.
Other than that, you just have to wait until he gets the hang of it and keep encouraging. Just try not to show your frustration so that it doesn't become an issue.

[watto1]

DD was the same. It was summer, so I put her in loose shorts without pants and that helped but it may have just been a coincidence.

[ClaimedByMe]

My ds was the same with pants on but when i switched to boxer shorts no accidents, could be a coincidence though!

[MrsChemist]

Thanks for the replies. I left him bare from the waist down yesterday, and there were no accidents. I need to go out today, so I'll put him in some comfy trousers and leave off the underpants and see how we go.