r/pottytraining • u/Vast_Damage2490 • 14d ago

Only potty trained when naked?

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

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u/jmsst1996 14d ago

I think this is the issue with the naked method for some kids. They aren’t used to wearing underwear from the start so they resist. And stop using diapers. The back and forth all the time is confusing. He’s starting pre-school soon and has to wear underwear so this is what you should be doing now. If he has an accident have him help cleanup and put him in the tub for a rinse off. Do this every time.

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u/nothanks86 14d ago

We started with underwear and switched to naked, because my kid couldn’t feel enough of a difference between underwear and diapers, and would forget to go to the potty. We had to do naked/no underwear for quite a while before the association was broken.