Until 2 months ago, Jessica still needed to be reminded, at least every few hours. She’d get so engrossed in what she was doing that she’d just forget all about the potty until she had an accident, and then she was mortified. They schedule class potty breaks at school every few hours, and that serves the same purpose.

As you know I just trained my son and it took about 1/2 a day and we have only had 2 minor accidents since March. He is not even having accidents at night … we are totally diaper free. I never even think about reminding him to use the potty.

BUT he was almost 3-1/2 when we finally did it.

I WAS a big advocate of early potty training … until I had my kids … then I realized it wasn’t such a big deal … no one is giving out awards for the earliest potty trained child.

I had his twin sister trained awhile ago but he clearly was going to be more challenging … so I waited. And, for us, it turned out to be a good decision.

It just sounds to me that it would be easier for you, for a short time, to go back to diapers and give him more time … he will shortly come to understand that he is in baby diapers and his sister is not.