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Nearly 3 yr old son afraid to wear underwear

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Littlesparrow0 · 20/09/2020 00:23

This is now my third attempt over the summer to potty train my son who will be 3 in November. He understands what the potty is all about. It doesn't phase him to sit on the potty, although he's not bloody doing anything. He holds it until the point he is sore holding in his pee and will then have a buf full nappy when i do cave in and put it back on him...

But my main thing is that hes absolutely petrified of underwear. I tried him first with big boy pants he hated them so I went and spent about bloody £30 on boxers in the opinion that hes see dad wearing them so maybe feel more relaxed about them. NOPE. hes screaming the house down even as soon as he sees them in my hand and then there's a row to put them on!

Once wearing them and his trousers are up hes fine but then when he says he wants to go pee and then sees hes wearing underwear its the sane scenario all over again. Im absolutely exhausted by it all today. Im trying so hard to get sonething hes comfortable with. Im at my wits end. Any body else have this issue??

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CrotchetyQuaver · 20/09/2020 00:26

Can daddy and him have a 'man to man' chat about big boy pants? I know it sounds silly but sometimes that kind of thing can make all the difference.

Littlesparrow0 · 20/09/2020 00:35

yep dad has done this a lot times... Even models his pants lol to our son to show him this is what big boys wear etc but still hasnt made a difference. Hes understands dad wears them and grandad and his cousins etc but still refuses to wear them

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Littlesparrow0 · 20/09/2020 00:35

I'm dreading round 2 in the morning!

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mantlepiece · 20/09/2020 00:38

My son would not give up his Huggies at 3 even though he was perfectly toilet trained day and night!

He started nursery at 3 1/2 and was in pants in days due to peer pressure haha

Pantheon · 20/09/2020 06:58

Could you try without pants for a while? Either naked waist down or just jogging bottoms? And introduce them later?

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