Is anyone else completely failing potty training?

I tried a month ago for 3-4 days naked bum, sitting on a potty and nothing. He will literally sit on the potty for ages, then stand up and have a wee on the floor. Poo - he withholds it until the nappy is on. So the month passed, started again, and exactly the same thing! I think he is ready, he hides for his poos and when he does wee he tells me wee wee. I'm reading all these posts about babies being completely potty trained and I just feel like I'm failing my boy and doing something wrong :(

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Morning, we’re training our little girl and it’s not easy. We’ve been bare bum before and after nursery and weekends for 2 months+ and she smashed it. Adding knickers is proving difficult but it’s all about perseverance.
However, my child seems more “ready” than yours does.
Don’t be harsh on yourself every child is different - boys are also notoriously harder to potty train.
I’d keep introducing it even if the potty is just out. I started by having it out and then just sitting my LO on it at certain times, before bath, before bed, before tea etc so it was exposure & then we just increased it, more bare bum time etc.

The main point I want to make is, baby’s are not all ready at the same time. Some people will potty train their baby’s from 3 months / 1 year / 2 year / 3 years. He will get there just keep the exposure up 🤞♥️

I don’t think fail is the right way to look at it. Mine started using the potty for wees in Feb and the stopped. Then in May we had a few days when she used it. Now she’s hesitant. I’m not pushing her.
My cousins daughter is 8 months older and she’s just trained her. I think this group deems a push to get them trained in a heart beat but that’s not the approach I’m following.
We’ve had nappy off afternoons. Some successful wees - some poos on the carpet or lawn. Mine can use the potty if she sees or asks for it but I’m not pushing the potty that’s for sure.

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