re: 3 year old potty training issues

Is he in Day Care? I ask because our oldest was fine with number one but would sit for 30-45 minutes with number 2 and ask if he could pull his pull up up and go no 2. His day care had a rule that you dont move up to 3 year old unless fully potty trained. We told him and he didnt believe us. Well, all of his friends moved up to 3 year old and he stayed behind. Within 1 week he was fully potty trained.

Every kid is different. A couple in this thread have said girls are easier than boys to potty train but it was the opposite for us. Our daughter was by far the hardest to potty train.

All 3 things I recommend have already been said:

1) Keep on top of the constipation. The constipation will compound the issues with wetting and potentially makes going to the bathroom a negative experience for him.

2) Pick a long weekend and let the boy go naked. We did it with my daughter and it helped a lot.

3) Let him pee outside. It will make it fun while also reinforcing the fact that he needs to remove underwear to use the bathroom instead of just going.

When we were potty training my 2nd oldest, we decided one day to let him pee outside. Had his older brother show him how to go pee on a fence. We have a .5 acre lot with a privacy fence all around the backyard. The younger son managed to make it 3/4 of the way around the backyard. He'd pee, take 3-4 steps, stop, pee again, and repeat. I don't know how he had that much pee in him.

Teach him to go pee in the yard

Poop too if he feels like it

We had the same problem with our son when he was little. He couldn’t go to preschool until he was trained and nothing we did worked. We went to a gastro and a nutritionist. We tried giving him a probiotic, upping the amount of fiber in his diet, giving him pear/prune juice, etc. and he almost ended up in the hospital with a fecal impaction. We started giving him Miralax every day and that works for him. Yes, it’s less than ideal but our other options didn’t work and it keeps him out of the hospital. Miralax is not absorbed by the body and the gastro told us it could be used indefinitely. So, use Miralax if you have to in order to get the constipation under control and I think he will potty train just fine.

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He will go pee on the toilet if you bring him but less than an hour later he will wet himself

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You might also want to check with a urologist if he is urinating this frequently. Eventually, my son was on medication to reduce the need to pee; he was going to the bathroom so often it interfered with his daily activities. My daughter was chronically constipated as a toddler. Prunes in her oatmeal (yuk) helped. Also, as another poster stated, Miralax is water soluble and it can be taken in heaps and as often as needed.

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We made my son stay naked for about 3-4 days and he was basically fully potty trained by the end of it.

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Honestly if you can do this its the best solution. Just let him walk around with no pants on at home (every mans dream). They dont like to piss and shite on the floor. 4 boys and it worked for all of them and its the quickest way. Like ripping a band-aid.

Two girls and one boy that was the youngest. The boys are just different. Just keep at it with a regular routine. It will just click one day. Don’t stress about setting a time frame.

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It’s been bad off and on.

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I assume you've been to a doctor and described his diet, accurately and in great detail for a week or so in duration.

He's already 3 and not potty trained?

Jesus.

My kids were trained before they turned 2.