[Erin_1712]

My son is almost 3 and we have tried potty training before but after a day or two he refuses. H eknows the fellings and control because he will pee everytime we put him on the potty he just feels like it is too much of a hassle for everyday. We have tried cloth undies and he will do good for a couple of days and then just spread his legs and pee and then run away and play. Where he lived before she left him in a wet diaper that had leaked onto his clothes for hours. She used 2 diapers a day which means he is used to having wet pants we are teaching him the feeling of wet clothes by touchig with our hand and saying dry or wet.

Today I bought pull ups but we still call them big boy undies and put them in a drawer. He likes being able to pull them up and down so he is independant in the bathroom. I send him ever hour he has a kitchen timer that when he hears it he goes and then gets a sticker. Pooping is about 1/3 of the time it goes inthe potty and then we get a big shiny sticker. Today in between his hourly potty breaks he wet himself and I did not know because it got absorbed and when we were at the potty we talked about the peed pants and to throw them away. And reinforced pee potty.

My question is will the reminders and the rewards of going eventually make him understand to go even if the timer has not gone off? Especially because it absorbs. He does not get anything from feeling wet because he is used to his clothes being wet and Pull Up website says children learn from being wet and feeling uncomfortable. Something that does not really work in this situation.

Will he just learn to go or realize they are sorta like diapers. We do not treat them at all like diapers and even store them in a different way. I am out of ideas so I tried this. Has anyone else had success with this? Just reminding and using the pullups to catch accidents? He has great bladder control he can even go all night without wetting.