Boys are notorious for being late potty trainers. After doing the bribing/lots of accidents thing with the Hallgirls, I decided I’d rather buy diapers instead of clean up messes. So, when Hallboy’s turn came, I bought a package of underwear and put the potty in the bathroom, but other than that, didn’t mention it. One month before Hallboy’s third birthday, he refused a diaper. I told him that he’d had to wear his underwear and he couldn’t pee/poop in them. He was fine with that.
I’m proud to say that to this day, he’s STILL out of diapers and doing well.
This is what my boyfriend’s daughter went through with her little girl with treat training, LOL. If it helps, at seven she’s a VERY bright kid well beyond her age level in all school subjects. You might just be raising a genius.
My daughter refused to potty train - she would tell me she would be ready to go in the potty when she was four. She was three at the time. The ladies at day care questioned me about it, thought maybe I should push her - but I told them that we would wait until she was ready. She trained about 2 months before her 4th birthday. She had one accident, and that was it.
I didn’t really care that she was late to train, she was a late walker, a late talker…but she has made up for all that now. They say all kids graduate high school knowing how to walk, talk and use the potty. So - it’ll happen.
I don’t know about the trying to save the poop theory, because if he poops in his diaper(still happens thankfully) he calls it geed which is a corruption of “oh GAWD” which is what I would say when I opened the diaper to change him and discovered an especially horrible mess…
*Dispatch we need backup, this is a four wetwipe job at least!
He has no trouble bagging a diaper with geed and tossing it in the trash, hell he insists on doing it himself now.
