Boy potty training

I need help potty training my 2 1/2 year-old for pre-K next year. We started yesterday and he doesn’t seem to mind poop or pee in his underwear. We started a couple months ago, which is sitting on the potty with his pants down but diaper on. He seems to get all of the potty steps such as pulling the pants down, sitting on the potty, wiping, flushing and putting the toilet seat down. But when we switched to underwear with a leak free underwear over the regular underwear he stopped telling me what he needed to go potty and I found him carrying on business as usual in his wet or soiled underwear. I’ve tried setting a timer and taking him to the potty every five minutes or 10 minutes and he still ends up wet or with poopy underwear.

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same boat friend 🙋🏻‍♀️ my son has no problem walking around peed or pooped he used to tell me he went potty or that he needed to then also just spontaneously stopped and i have literally cleaned poop underwear at least 1-3x a day since october 2024🥲 the timer method didn’t work for us either and i’m just praying one day he wakes up and just wants to not be soiled anymore 💆🏻‍♀️ sorry that i really can’t offer advice but just know ur not the only one 🤍

My sister went no pants or underwear for a couple days during the day with her son! It worked well as her was quick to notice and report needing to go. After that she went to underwear with him and he hardly had accidents.

Try doing naked for the first day. Second day just let him wear one underwear not two. From there on out just one underwear. Pull ups for naps and bedtime. You have to really dedicate time for potty training. Make sure you’re watching signs for when he looks like he’s about to pee. I started catching when my son was about to pee and I would run him to his potty and he’d finish there and he started grasping it a couple days later. Potty training doesn’t happen overnight. As long as you have little baby wins that’s progress. It’s super hard and verrrryyy stressful but take it one day at a time. You have to remember they’re new to this world so everything they are taught has to connect. I saw a TikTok where they have kids blow bubbles in a cup with water and that helps them learn how to push. Also I gave candy for every time they tried to pee and pee and poop.

My son was difficult to potty train too, I tried just leaving him in underwear and he also didn’t care so when he pooped in his underwear we would throw the poop in the toilet and reiterate to him poopie goes in the toilet not in your underwear so he can see where poop is suppose to go, we also have him a potty watch that did a little jingle and you can set it for whatever time you want we did every 15 and even if he didn’t have to go we would sit him for like 10-15min and read books or sing songs, a book about potty training was also helpful we bought “let’s go to the potty! A potty training book for toddlers” and turned it into a song, but what really worked was a potty chart with reward stickers and we got a basket and put little toys in it from the dollar store so every time he would get 4 stickers in a row from going to the potty he got to pick a toy and it really encouraged him to want to use it and eventually he started telling us when he had to go.

I'm here for advice, we've just started potty training

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