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[quote=Anonymous]My sweet 3.5 year old had been potty trained since this February. We were away for most of the summer, in a few different places, and there were a few accidents, but nothing major. We didn’t have a potty at one of the houses, so he used older child’s insert on the toilet and that worked fine. So when we came back to DC in the middle of the summer, we tried no potty, just the insert, and that went well. The after that, we did a family vacation and there was a potty there, so he used it.

When we came back for good, I didn’t put the potty out because we had had that two week interlude at our house where he successfully used the insert when he needed to go. After a week of being home and seeing accidents, we asked him if he wanted the potty back out and said yes. I hoped that would help, but the frequency of accidents increased. He pooped in his pants twice today, pees in his pants all the time. his teachers at school say he’s fine there. We try to have him sit on the insert or the potty regularly, and before we leave the house, and he has big tantrums in reaction to being told he has to sit on the potty. We are at the point where he is experiencing natural consequences of the accidents that sting — for example, not being able to go to a party at the same time as older sibling, b/c he had to stay home and have a bath. But it doesn’t seem to be affecting his motivation to not go to the bathroom in his clothes. When he goes, he doesn’t tell us; we can either see it or smell it. It feels like we are back to having a baby who has no control over his bodily functions.

His school and teacher and classmates are the same as last year.

In typing this out, I am realizing that maybe we moved away from the potty too soon. If you have experience with this, how long do you think it will take to re-potty train him? We are planning on staying home and him having no clothes on tomorrow. [/quote]

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