3 Year old wetting his pants!

[BlakeNatsMum]

Hi All..

Just wondering if anyone here has any ideas about how to deal with this situation...

I am about to tear my hair out here...

My son who turned 3 in November, has been day toilet trained for a good 2-3 months and for some reason is now reverting back to wetting his damn pants again....!

I have no idea why he is doing this again now... He knows he needs to go to the toilet, and yet so far he wet his pants at Kinder yesterday, and today he has wet his pants twice!!....Is it just due to laziness?? It is getting me so mad that I have to keep washing his damn jocks and shorts, when he knows to go to the toilet... I keep asking him why he is wetting his pants and he just either sits there or stands there looking at me...

He has been so good up until the last 2 days, and for some reason is now only just starting this. His new sister hasn't even arrived as yet, and he is aware she is on her way. He is even excited that she is coming because she is giving him some "hot wheels cars"...

If anyone has any ideas about how to deal with this that would be greatly appreciated!... It makes me so flipping MAD! :banghead: :mad:

I know you aren't meant to scold them or to get angry, but it's just getting me mad because I cant see a reason for it!.. Nothing here at home has changed!!!!

Thank you all in advance...

Jen.

[Lirael]

are you being negative in front of him. the worst thing you can do to a child TT is be negative

[BlakeNatsMum]

No, Im not negative with him at all.. I tell him that he needs to go to the toilet instead of wetting his pants..! I tell him he is a big boy now, he needs to remember to go to the toilet..!

[Amberlea]

I had the same problem with my son up until he was 4.5 .. he was totally toilet trained and then for some reason just started wetting his pants at daycare and at home.

The only thing I could put it down to was that he was too absorbed/interested in whatever he was doing at the time.. that he just plain "couldnt be bothered" going to the toilet.

I found that even mentioning it made it worse.. I'd just ignore him - change his pants and let him go... but when he did go to the toilet - I'd make a fuss and praise him etc... he snapped out of it in a few days.

[FourAngelKisses]

I'd just ignore him - change his pants and let him go... but when he did go to the toilet - I'd make a fuss and praise him etc...

I was going to suggest the same thing. Try to avoid telling him off or anything, it will only make things worse.

[~J'dore~]

I think that they all go through a few relapses in the early days.

I know how frustrating it can be:banghead:

Maybe try going back to getting him to go to the toilet every couple of hours so that he doesn't get to the point where he really needs to go. I think sometimes boys can just be a little lazy about it. If they are having fun or 'busy' they just cant be bothered. Once he gets back into a routine then he'll start going on his own again.

Good luck. I'm sure it wont last for long:yes:

[Kirstlea]

My dd who is 3 1/2 still has accidents and has been great during the day for about a year now but only the other day she got of her chair peed on the floor and got back on her chair and then realised how uncomfortable it was. Her reply was its too hard.

We have realised that she is scared of the toilet because she thinks there are frogs in it so have had to go back to the potty until she realises that all the frogs are outside.

We have pulled a few out lately :o . Maybe something like that is bothering him. After all he is only 3 its not abnormal for him to be like that.

Also even though things haven't changed in general at home yet he will still sense subtle changes that even you haven't realised have happened.

My dd started changing as I got bigger in my pregnancy and now god helps us all. My new son is only 3 1/2 mths old and she is still torn up about it. They say watch out for the terrible twos, I didn't even see them but three omg its not so nice.

All you can do is encourage him and sorry but it could possibly get worse once your new baby arrives or he could transform into an absolute angel and won't be able to do enough for you. :fingerscrossed:

My dd will do anything to get my attention and really doesn't care if its bad attention she just doesn't want me paying attention to ds.

Goodluck, hope things settle soon.

Kirsten