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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like there’s a world of difference of trying to potty train a 2 year old and avoiding pull-ups and a 4 year old. Unless there are communication difficulties I think you could try to just explain this? We use pull-ups sometimes for our 4 year old - forget to take it off in the morning/after nap time, or a road trip, plane trip etc, and he just treats them like underwear and pulls them down to pee. We were never consistent about taking pull-ups away during potty training and maybe it took longer than others but he’s mostly got it down now. He went thru a period of accidents a couple months ago that I thought something was really wrong (constipation etc) and I stressed so much but now it rarely happens that he has an accident it’s crazy what a difference a few months has made. [/quote]

Yes but importantly your 4 yr old is not, essentially, still potty training.

My kid trained very late and I can tell you that for a kid in this stage, wearing a pull-up sometimes would be really confusing. It will make him feel like you don’t trust him to get it.

I would pour money and energy into just getting him trained. Hire a sitter for a month, keep your schedule very consistent, and just reinforce the potty training until the accidents go away or are few and far between. Then he goes back to grandmas. It will be worth the money and inconvenience to finally get him fully trained and then it’s amazing because all these issues you’ve been stressing over during training just drop away. Trust me, it’s so liberating. When you are training a kid who takes a long time to get there or has a lot of false starts (🙋🏻‍♀️) it feels like it will never end. It will. You are really close snd you e just got to push through a little longer.[/quote]

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