Potty training

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

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

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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

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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.

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I have to rant 😭
We have been together for years but I feel like since we had a baby things have taken a really awful turn, or maybe it was always like this but now having a baby has highlighted things. Is it just me that sees it?
I’ll try and bullet point or it will be a essay
-I’m expected to do all the night wakes even though I also work (granted I only work 3days but they are long days and need some mental clarity for my job)
- If I say I would like a lay in it’s “wow you only work 3 days” “you lay in everyday your not at work” Yes I do try and lay in if little one is laying in (it’s usually because she’s been up most the night)
- he walked out on mutiple jobs when she was born “because it wasn’t his dream job/wasn’t happy” which ment I had to go back to work when she was really little and put a massive financial strain on us the last year, draining all my savings I saved for maternity leave
- He organises nights out/meals out with friends and expects me to stay home or go and be taxi, He’s even asked me to pick him up saying just put her in the car and pick me up in middle of the night, most the time now he suddenly tries to stay over at friends houses without even mentioning it before hand meaning me being left all night to have baby
Yet if I even go out for couple hours I constantly get asked when I’m back how long I will be even though I always leave a clear plan of what’s happening and when I’ll be home
- he can “have a night out and stay out all night as I go Zumba for an hour every week “😅
- If he’s “looking after her” while I’m doing chores or cooking he just puts the tv on and doesn’t watch her he’s either playing on his phone or games and now she’s walking/crawling I’m constantly shouting saying can you actually watch her, and I have said multiple times tv is a last resort for us as I want to encourage independent play or playing with us
- he makes horrible little comments like imagine doing that as a single parent or I feel like your going to divorce me which makes me think he knows he’s being terrible?
- He’ll try to put off feeding her dinner because he “doesn’t want to clean her up or the mess”
- Doesn’t do bed time as playing his games or watching tv and if I just ask he gets super pissed and just says give her your boob (she was breast fed but now I only breast feed in the night to keep nights easier)
- I also said about working extra Saturdays as these are my busiest work days (hairdresser) as currently just do every other and he flat out said “no because then I’ll have to have her every Saturday” “what’s our family time” yet we spend most Saturdays with his friends anyways or I’m home with the baby because he’s with his friends

I just feel like he isn’t interested in her or me basically and hes just being really lazy with parenting, I’m so mentally drained from explaining how to do basic stuff and doing everything it’s now starting to take its toll on me as a parent.
I try to stop doing everything but it always comes back on me because it just doesn’t get done even when I say can you do this for me and I then have to do it because it needs doing or I’m fed up of asking thousand times
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Feeling very frustrated and angry at my partners comments. For context, we both work full time but I do 100% of the cooking and taking care of the household. He only helps assist with school pickups on the days I’m in the office. I ensure ALL of his food is prepped throughout the week which involves lots of batch cooking and I also cook fresh meals for dinner on the days I’m working at home. Keeping in mind he has never cooked for me or even heated up pre cooked food in the fridge for me, I come home from working in the office and there will be stacks of dishes even if he’s been at home on his day off.

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