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[quote=Anonymous]So my 6 year old is still in a pull up at night. We started training him a little over age 2 and while pee was easy, poop was a DISASTER. Rounds of constipation. Years of MiraLAX. Withholding. Pooping in his pants. Tears. It was a SCENE. Finally succeeded at just over three years old, just in time for PK3.

For us, night training just wasn’t a priority. He sleeps a solid 12 hours a night, very soundly, and wakes up with a VERY full diaper. He tends to drink a lot of water/milk with dinner and given his history of constipation, I do not want to limit fluids. Honestly, we just haven’t bothered. We’ve been focusing on things like chores and table manners.

He turned six about a month ago and we started trying at night for the first time, but we’re being low key about it. Moved him from a diaper (with a sposie pad) to a Goodnights pull up, put a little potty next to his bed, encouraging him to use it, offering a gummy bear if he wakes up with a dry pull-up. He’s made huge progress - he’s definitely getting up to pee first thing in the morning and sometimes at night, and he’s earning that gummy bear about 3 times a week. He’s pretty motivated. I feel fine about it, and am not in a huge rush.

His little sister is 4.5, and I’ve never tried with her at night. She’s still in a regular diaper. She potty trained in about 48 hours at 2.5. Would have trained earlier but we were coming off such a bad experience with her brother we made her wait.

So in our case, for better or worse, it’s really a parenting issue. [/quote]

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