My son had kids underpants on and had an accident, didn’t attempt to go to the potty. My partner immediately went okay time for a pull-up and I disagreed, he said he’s not potty trained and I know that but he’s working on it this is his second full try with underwear. Am I wrong for wanting to keep trying with the underwear after an accident? When my son wears a pull-up he doesn’t even think about the potty doesn’t attempt to go on the potty at all! When he has nothing on he goes pee no issues so this is the in-between stage. This morning he started to pee but stopped and went OOPS I pee’d a little bit and I said ok let’s go to the potty and he went straight to the potty.
I’m asking what would you do so I can best help my son get the hang of it. He’s 2.5 I’d love for him to be potty trained by 3 if we can.
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I have no advice since we haven’t potty trained yet but I think your definitely right

Absolutely ignore your husband and don’t confuse your boy.

Putting on a pull up is sending so many mixed messages to your child. You need to speak to your partner and say, we're in this, we're potty training, there will be accidents and it will take time to get it down but by shoving a pull up on every time, you are never going to achieve anything!
Good luck!

It sounds like you need to sit down together and agree an approach or you are just going to confuse him. Perhaps agree you’ll both do a bit of reading on different potty training techniques and then sit down and agree together what you are going to try first.

Your son needs to recognise the sensation of feeling wet. He won’t do that in pull ups. You also need to physically take him regularly which is how we trained our asd son although it took months!

Potty training is something you both (adult and child) need to dedicate some time to and get rid of the pull ups and keep them only for night. All this here, there, everywhere is very confusing for them. My son was also 2.5 at the time and we stayed inside for a week, and close to home for the second week, the first few days no underwear at all and then introduced boxers after, he had it within that week. Obviously every child is different but all the back and forward is honestly a waste of time, you need to decide whether to stop and keep pull ups for now and try again in the future, or ditch them and go for it.

I would remove the underwear and just let him go commando with his pants on - the underwear might be too similar of a feeling to a diaper (because of how tight it is) so I would do a day or two of commando and if he has no accidents then back to underwear. I agree, definitely no pull ups - that will be too confusing for him

Yes definitely don't go back to pull ups if you are committing to potty training, it just confuses them. But if having an accident I would go back to no pants until they have gone successfully on the potty. Also we didn't introduce underwear for a while and we did commando in trousers that were easy for him to pull up and push down first.