Loves the potty but won't wear pants

[Fionn]

I started potty training ds2 aged 2 and a half a few days ago and it's been very successful - he'll go around the house bare-bottomed and sits readily on the potty for a pee or a poo. If we go out I put a nappy on, though would rather not as he seems to have got the idea very quickly and I don't really want to continue with nappies. Trouble is, he won't wear pants. He screams if I try to put them on and takes them off straight away. But he doesn't want just trousers either, so will only wear a nappy under trousers, then take both off when he needs the potty. He also had a stong aversion to wearing dungarees, hats, bibs and wellies, though i did conquer the wellies one through perseverence. Has anyone else had this problem? Should I just keep trying pants every day and see if he eventually likes them or keep to nappies when we go out?

Fionn, it sounds like he is doing well. Perhaps he doesn't like the feeling of 'hanging free' and just prefers the feeling of the nappy next to him rather than pants. If he is still using the potty even although he has a nappy on I would be tempted to leave off the idea of pants for a week or so and try again when he may be more receptive to the idea. All the best.

You could try getting him to choose some new ones of his own. Or getting new ones for ds1 and both make a big deal of it, that worked for us when our dd2 wouldn't wear a coat, got dd1 a new one and suddenly she wants one. Good Luck.