Is this the norm for potty training ---

[eenybeeny]

DS started to train himself last week by going and sitting on the potty on his own when it just was in the room, and he did a big poo etc so we thought "fair enough we will train him" (he is almost 23 months)

When he is home and naked from the waist down he has pretty much a 100% success rate of getting to the potty. As soon as we put pants and shorts or trousers on him he has pretty much a 100% accident rate. He will say "potty" but he says it when he is doing it so we havent got enough advance warning to get him undressed and to the potty.

Is that normal? Do we soldier on or do we shelve it for a little while? I hesitate to stop doing it altogether because he has done so well and I dont want to make him feel what he has accomplished isnt good enough. We are giving him a sticker for every successful potty trip and he has accrued around 40 since last Saturday. But like I said he is naked most of the time at home.

Thoughts? WWYD?

my ds is always naked from waste down at home and is dry as a bean

as soon as pants on etc wet he knows when he wants to go but i think is confused by pants as thinks its sfe to wee like a nappy

just keep at home with no pants and then try with pants for few days and then adda layer but sounds normal to me as my ds is the same

nothing wrong with being naked most of the time at home for potty training - that's perfectly sensible.

It sounds like he's doing fine so far.

Can he pull his pants and shorts down quickly enough? Can you help him practise pulling them up and down at a time when he doesn't need to use thde potty, just to get him more used to pulling them down quickly?

yes I am happy to keep him naked at home! Its just leaving the house that is the problem. And he cant pull his pants/trousers down on his own we have to do it for him.

Normal. dd did the same and has just started to remember to say she needs to go beforehand. She can also pull her own pants up/down though it is a slow process!

Try just shorts, easy to pull up and down but not tight enough to think it's a nappy.

put on him really special knickers, that he can choose himself at the shop. DS loves Thomas and Noddy, so we got knickers with characters on it and we would remind him that he was wearing his lovely knickers and 'you don't want to get him wet...' In the end, I resorted to folding a small flannel in three and putting it in his knickers, like a pad, to catch the 'few drops' before having time to sit him on potty. It took a little while and he still 'drips' sometimes, even after 5 months.