Comments on: End Potty Training Regression Now

By: Betty

Betty — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:12:59 +0000

My son is almost 5. He has been daytime trained for more than 2.5 years now. He still wets at night (wearing a pullup) most nights, even though he wakes up & goes to the potty by himself. Some nights he wets before he wakes up to go & some nights he wets after he goes. This has been the norm for us & the Dr. said its not really an issue at his age.
Recently, though he has been having accidents during the day. Probably once every three weeks. And yesterday he had a poop accident, which totally confused me. He hasn’t done that in close to 2 years.
Any ideas?

By: Janu

Janu — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:17:58 +0000

Hi, i am a bit concerned. My baby gal is 3 years and almost 2 months old. She is in baby class and had few accidents in school including peeing and poop. She is okay at home and no accidents. What should i do for her to stop the accidents at school. I fear her colleagues may laugh at her and she can regress more.

By: Tahlia

Tahlia — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:13:16 +0000

Our 3.5yo has been toilet trained for over 16 months now. We have just moved house two weeks ago and she is due to start prep school next week. She has over the last two weeks failed to use the toilet almost every time. It is so unlike her. She is used to going to childcare – and although prep will be slightly different she is really excited about going. So I can only put her reversion down to moving but with school starting next week we need her to be toilet trained again so she doesn’t embarrass herself at her new school. Have tried the above suggestions but she is yet to earn one reward. She is beginning to despair and grow more anxious as are we.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:39:28 +0000

My 3 year old had just recently started the potty training process. She did so great for about a week. It only took her about a day in undies and she was going #1 regularly on the potty!! Yay’s all around!! It took her a few more days to do #2 on the potty but you could see on her face that she just didn’t seem to feel right about it.

Well, a week ago, I went out and hubby was home with the kids. She had a #1 accident and he said she got all upset about it. He didn’t make a big deal about it…he changed her and she didn’t want to put undies back on. Since then she absolutely REFUSES to sit on the potty. She was holding in everything for a couple of days and it seemed that the only time she would go was during the night. I know that kids tend to hold in poops when they are just learning PT but I hadn’t heard of holding in pee.

So since then as well she has turned into a clingy monster. She will not leave me alone and insists that I carry her everywhere, including to the bathroom. She still tells us that she has to go, she goes into the bathroom but she will NOT sit on the potty.

Plus she is now having trouble sleeping in her own bed through the night. I wonder if these events are all connected or what?

I wonder if she is regressing back to all things baby because she’s unsure, embarrassed, insecure about all this potty business??

I am going out of my mind and losing sleep to boot, as I am the one who gets to get up and try to get her back to bed at night.

Thanks.

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:21:16 +0000

Glad you found it helpful, Jerri!

By: Jerri Matthews

Jerri Matthews — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:36:23 +0000

Thank you so much for this information. I did not know what was going on with my 2 yr old daugher or how to handle it, until I read your potty training regression article. I can not wait to start applying the advice. Thanks!!!!:)

By: latricia

latricia — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:29:00 +0000

My daughter is 3 and is in pre-school she was Potty trained before that. Now she has accidents at school and at home. She makes no effort to the potty. I did help her go potty at school, she knows. The bathroom is in the classroom and everything is at her level. The teacher would tell her time to go and she won’t. At home she helps me clean her mess and I will put on the pot and tell her this is where your pee go. I didn’t know what else to do so I put her back on pull ups and some days at school she won’t have any accidents and some days she won’t go at all. I need help please,

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:10:30 +0000

It’s hard to say what is contributing to this, since I don’t know you or your parenting style. A few suggestions that might help, though, are:

1. start anew
2. have a family meeting, mark a calendar, involve your child in understanding why now and why it is important
3. potty train w/o underwear for a few days
4. potty train for day and night time simultaneously

Check out this post, if you haven’t already: http://www.childperspective.com/potty-training/toilet-training-the-older-child/

Good luck!

By: Kathy

Kathy — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:06:26 +0000

What do you do though when your child just doesn’t care that they’ve wet their pants. My son would sit in wet underwear all day if we’d let him. He’ll be 4 on Dec 20, and we’ve been trying to potty train him since August. I’m ready to pull my hair out.

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:37:50 +0000

Rest assured, this would not qualify as regression, which is the good news. It sounds like your son has just had a couple of accidents, which is totally normal, even after being potty trained for awhile. There’s no need to punish or treat it as anything other than a mistake. No big deal. I would encourage you to have your son help with the clean up as much as possible.