So I have a little boy who is going to be three in October and he is STILL wearing pull ups 24/7. Mom had expressed to me that she was having a really hard time so I came up with a plan. No more pull ups, giving out stickers and prizes. It worked REALLY well for a few weeks. He was getting almost 4 stickers a day and was only wearing pull ups during naps. But mom seems to have stopped caring so much. She keeps pull ups on him when they go out, and he's been arriving in pull ups, I guess because he doesn't pee before he leaves the house so he's been peeing in the car on the way.

The little boy is a BIG suck when it comes to his mom. He gets all sucky and sad when he doesn't want to do something and then she just lets him get away with it. I've watched them do it. She wanted him to pee on the way out, and they sat in the bathroom for like 5 minutes, her saying over and over, "go on the potty" and he would just look all sad and cling to her. It was really hard to watch. I don't know them well enough yet to interject. That day, he'd gotten all his stickers so he got a prize. Mom said if he didn't go, he couldn't take his prize home. And they left without it. Which COMPLETELY defeated the purpose. Since then, things haven't been going well.

I don't know what to do. I don't want to be the one doing ALL the work when it comes to potty training him, I don't think it's fair. It's not fun and I HATE it, but if I had mom's full support, I would be willing to do it. But with him showing up in pull ups, it kind of throws the whole thing off.

I want to just throw in the towel until mom is ready.