Help! my son won't wear pants!

Question

My son is 2 and a half and refuses to wear pants or sit on the potty, he goes hysterical when i try either. He tells me when hes done a poo but not a wee, please help as i feel he really should be trying to get out of nappies but am getting no where.

Answer 1

Please consider the age of  your son and overlook what-ever he does now. With time, things will take a different turn.

Whether he refuses or accepts, continue to educate him and attract him with sweets or biscuits until you succeed wearing the pants for him. Children of  his age don't tell their mummy they want to wee, what they do is to lift up their shirts or give a sort of  signal.  

Answer 2

the pants thing isn't such a big deal right now but it could get somewhere, so tell him he has to keep his pants on or hes going to the timeout or no desert after dinner tonight. something you know he wont want to happen. and with the potty thing just check him everyonce in awhile or say if he tells you when he goes pee he gets a sticker or an mnm and then once you have that going well have him pee on the potty and have him sit there for like 15-30 minutes and if nothing he doesn't get anything but if he goes to the bathroom then give him some reward like the sticker thing or a mnm or a cookie. something you know he wants.

Answer 3

hay yea had same probelm int he end i let him make his own mind up becuse when they are ready they will start

Answer 4

might be a good time to check out the child minding centres ----a rest for you and an education for him. He will not be happy but he will learn and they will be able to advise you so good luck and have some well deserved rest---- special movie or clothes shopping. Both of you will learn from the experience. I played golf with my husband and used the services. Difficult at first but it is a good thing to do. We even went out for lunch occassionally knowing that the kids were also having fun or a good afternoon sleep so they weren't so grumpy at home !

Answer 5

If i were you i'd stop pushing the matter. There's no rush to get him out of nappies. It's actually much slower to toilet train boys. Put his nappy back on and leave it a few months. He obviously isnt ready for this change.

Answer 6

Start using some of those clever "pull up" nappies that Huggies make nowadays.

They are much like padded underwear and kids get used to wearing them under their pants  

Answer 7

try a potty chart and get him to add stickers to it when he uses the potty

Answer 8

don't force him, maybe he is not ready. two years old is very young, especially for a boy. Boys tend to be potty trained a little later than girls. My son was 2 1/2 when he was trained, and i wasn't forcing it. All of a sudden it clicked and he was ready. after that, he was totally trained, even overnight. the more you push it, the more he will resist and find something wrong with it. just relax a little.  

Answer 9

He won't be starting school with a bare bum - I wouldn't worry about it.

Answer 10

Maybe he is not ready? Not all children are ready at the same time. My son is 3 and we have just started him because when we tried earlier, he refused. Dont force him, juts have the potty there so that he can use it when he wants too :)

Answer 11

put a skirt on him if he keeps it on he's a future transvestite

Answer 12

my son was yhe same to the point i think i made such an issue he ended up scared to use the loo at all he took to pooing and peeing in any available corner! i started to chill and just kept a close eye on him and just praised him whenever he went to the loo.....despite the odd places he chose to go! this did the trick and slowly encouraged him that he would be such a big boy to use the toilet, he now does it took a long time but was worth it in the end, there is no right time really as all kids differ my other 4 were so easy to train but number 5 was the hardest, but just continue to praise him and he will do it when he is ready and more confident!

Answer 13

Michelle Is right, wait till he's ready, you can encourage him, maybe take him shopping to choose pants he would like to wear.

Don't force him but you can try and make it fun.

Get small things he likes, such as chocolate or something to award him with if he uses the potty.

Perhaps pull ups?

Good luck =]

Answer 14

he might not be ready yet. back off for a while and try again in a couple of months.

my parents let my little brothers run around the house with no trousers or pants on lol, that seems to work!

Answer 15

try to distract him with something else, then put his pants on when still distracted, might work

Answer 16

My daughter showed no interest in potty's or pants no matter how much I tried to encourage her. She started nursery a month ago and suddenly decided the time was right and moved straight onto the toilet and now has no accidents at all. It's a decision they need to make themselves but I can't help thinking that they can be very easily influenced by someone other than the parents (in my case the nursery staff, but also maybe grandparents etc.?)

Answer 17

Future nudist lulz.

Answer 18

My 2 yr old brother has similar problems (I'm 12). He often tries to take off his trousers but he now struggles to because he wears a belt! However once he's done a wee or poo, it becomes a battle to catch him because he's running away from my mum and then she tries to put on his trouser after a lot of struggling. It's hard to put it on but once it's done, it's done.  

Answer 19

Pants are overrated anyway.

I know, buy him a wee kilt.