How to get my son (2-1/2) to wear underpants??

Question

He's potty training very well, having very few accidents. I can get him to wear a pull-up, but for some reason he just doesn't want to transition into underpants. I'm not sure what the problem is, and I don't want to push him and make it a negative experience. Anyone else ever deal with this? Any ideas? Bribery isn't working. Cute underwear isn't working. They're soft and comfy.

Answer 1

go to the store and let him pick them out. Start at home by giving him some money...this is for what a great job youve been doing with your potty, were going to the store to buy you some special underwear and maybe get a treat too. A very special errend indeed! Just for him, go to the little boy underwear section and let him pick it out, that would be sooo exciting! I know if it were mine he wouldnt even make it out to the parking lot before he wanted to put them on.

Answer 2

Tell him he will develop a severe case of thrush or something to that degree.

Its always good to scare your children.

This worked for my kids.  They grew up fine and some of them even finished highschool.

Only 2 out of the 5 are in prison as we speak.

Answer 3

Push the idea of being a big boy.  Let him see his father in his underwear. (not in a perverted way, but some male bonding may be in order)  Let him pick out his underwear at the store so that the experience feels more like his idea and not yours.  The transistion from being the baby to being a big boy can be either rocky or smooth depending on how comfortable he is.  Give him time.  You may want to try padded underwear.  They'll give him the feel of a pull-up while still allowing a stepping stone for big boy underwear.

Answer 4

If he's potty training well and not wetting in his pull-up, I 'd wait for him to get really comfortable using the potty before working on getting him to use the underwear. Too many changes, and as you said, pressure, can cause him to lose progress.

I hope it goes well for you! Sounds like he's doing great!

Answer 5

my son was wearing underpants before he was fully potty trained. I thought it was pretty important to practice the pulling up and pushing down underpants and pants.  So i tried to teach him that first.  The same time, i got him underpants with his favorite character like diego and spider man.  I also tried to get him underpants that looks identical to my husband's underpants.  When he sees how my husband uses his underpants, then we ask him if he wants to be just like Daddy and he said yes, then we took out the underpants for him.

It only took 3 months for him to be fully trained, and by then, not only he could go to the bathroom when he needed to go, he was also able to actually go without too much adult supervision.  

He still has a little problem now with pulling up the pants perfectly, but he is doing great with everything else at age of 3.

Answer 6

When I was training my son to use the bathroom I gave him water and every time he had to go I made him use the bathroom instead of a diaper. You need to push him, you do it by getting rid of (hiding) the diapers/pull-ups and tell him that there is only underpants now. He's two, it won't traumatize him. He may not want it at first but with it being the only option he'll quickly conform.

Answer 7

Best thing that worked for me was to start putting the underwear over the pull-up or diaper so that they get used to seeing it on themselves and wearing them even if they arent using just the underwear yet.

Answer 8

My son did this too.  Then one day I ran out of pullups and had to put them on him. The best strategy is to immediately do a favorite activity after putting them on.  I told my boy that we couldn't go outside and blow bubbles without pants on.  We slipped them on and ran outside to blow bubbles.  He screamed for a couple of minutes but got over it soon enough.  It took about a week of running straight outside (or sitting him down to his favorite breakfast food, or hopping on the four wheeler) to get him used to the feeling of underwear.

I also tried different brands of underwear.  The child has like 20-something pairs........

Answer 9

its easy. your child is use to the pull up pants. if you son still bet wets or pee on he go than wait till he is 3 or 31/2 and than try but you should know that he is too young to wear underpants.