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[quote=Anonymous]We have a speech delayed child who would not train either.  We started very young so the poop and pee was fine in the potty (I think its better to start younger so it is normal and not scary) but we could not get him out of the diapers.  Mine pooped trained and night trained before pee and day.  It was strange but I was grateful for the poop training.  Finally we got him into Gerber Trainers and just put him on the potty every hour.  Can you load up an iPad with his favorite games and only let him use it on the potty?  We had a few big accidents, then more dribbles.  Finally after about 9 months, we are getting there where he puts himself on the potty and is taking more initiative.  Get him the elastic pants or shorts.  The Circo has a 5t elastic waist that works well.  Or Costco has some elastic style shorts right now.  Just keep working at it.  We are now working on the putting them back on.  Its a long process.  Just stick with it and do not do any of the trendy things.  But, do put him on the potty and force it every hour to two hours in the diaper and then go to trainers.  They have cloth trainers that hold more pee.  The Gerbers 4T run a bit big but they are probably too small now.  Just hang in there.  I think it may have more to do with the speech delay (I think ours was the speech delay as now that the speech is finally coming, everything else is coming).  I started with the pants up/down by just having him hold the pants with me.  It took months of it.  He also got used to getting us to do it so finally we had to just refuse.  Don't go the naked pee route.  He is too old and its gross. Just get tons of clothing and underwear and just stick with it.  It was a long road for us (and we're still working on it) but we are finally having success.

http://www.target.com/p/circo-infant-toddler-boys-jeans/-/A-14588434

(they have these in store in shorts too)

We almost went to these but didn't bother:

http://www.kellyscloset.com/Super-Undies-Pull-On-Potty-Training-Pants-_p_4755.html

http://www.kellyscloset.com/Super-Undies-Snap-On-Potty-Training-Pant-_p_4756.html

(You can sometimes get them cheaper at the babyhalfoff site)[/quote]

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