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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I found the naked or stay home for 3 days in underwear options entirely stressful and not some magic bullet that people claim it is.  My son is 2 yrs 11 months, and about 2 weekends ago we tried it - horrible couple days, never went on the actual potty once (would sit him every 20-30 minutes and he would still pee his pants in between). Then we set him to daycare in pullups for a few days and did underwear at night, again seemed to have little progress except maybe once or twice he timed it into the potty, then again the following weekend did some underwear -- some chunk of time in the morning one day, then pullups for out of the house bc we had something etc. So did most of a weekend but not as aggressively, and not obsessed with trying to get him to drink a ton which the 3 day methods suggest (and I found to be stressful in itself).  Then that following monday sent him to daycare in underwear for the full week.  Good amount of accidents but went with his friends on the potty and made some progress, following weekend in underwear and so on - so been a couple of weeks now and he's had many days at school with no accidents and can actually make it to the potty when he as to go.  Definitely still in the potty check mode before and after every activity -- in and outside, before and after dinner, before a short tv show or 20-30 minutes of playing with toys etc.  But he has gotten the hang of it so far.

So I guess my advice is probably to stop with the pressure on yourself until after your trip b.c. I don't think it is fair to leave the inlaws in the middle of this process, but still sit him on the potty frequently until then, and then start again after, except a lot of accidents and then just be consistent.

At daycare and at home we're still doing pullups for nap, by the way.  [/quote]

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