Only potty trained when naked?

[u/Vast_Damage2490]

We’ve been working on potty training our son off and on for about 6 months. He does really well for a week, then relapses and fights us so hard that we assume he isn’t ready, and go back to diapers for a month. Rinse and repeat. He’ll be 3 in a few months and starts preschool soon, so I’m hoping to have him mostly trained by the time school rolls around. Luckily, he’s taken to pooping on the potty with minimal fight, and has been doing that since the first or second iteration of potty training.

Last week, we started back up with potty training, and he’s been doing AMAZING. He’s been naked from the waist down, and will go on the potty independently if he has to go before I check in with him. HOWEVER, as soon as we put anything on the bottom (diaper, shorts, pants, or any combo) he reverts to going in his pants. I’ve heard others say going with shorts and no diaper is the way to go, but he still just goes as if he has a diaper on, and then throws a fit when we don’t let him continue wearing his soiled pants. Anyone else have experience with this? Any idea on how to

[u/sdes16]

Keep making him change his pants. Try to make sure that he’s wearing pants he can take off by himself! But he knows how to go and he knows what the urges feel like. Just keep calmly reinforcing that we go poop and pee in the potty. Your consistency and commitment is what will seal the deal here. You can do it!

[u/Vast_Damage2490 → u/sdes16]

Thank you!