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When we potty trained, we went all or nothing, but DS was 3 years and 3 months. We tried around the same time you did...got him interested in the potty, but he revolted horribly one day so we stopped. Little brother came when he turned 3, so we waited a few more months and talked to him about how we were going to try again.

Can you try to see first if you can teach him a sign for potty? That way he can tell you without having to be verbal if he has to go?

We also used the 3 day method. We went nowhere for those 3 days and prompted LO to go every 40 minutes. He insisted on staying in underwear for his nap, and he stayed dry. I was incredibly surprised, but he's only ever had 2 night accidents, and he's 4 now. We had a few accidents over those 3 days, but he started to get the hang of it. I always know where the bathroom is when we go out somewhere...we would take him as soon as we got into a store and again before we left, and he really started getting the hang of telling us when he needed to.

Lots of luck to you!

@bubblegum: We had a few false starts starting around 27 months. We would try every few months but he wasn't interested in it until a few months after he turned 3. We didn't use any kind of method though. It took about a month before accidents were few and far between. But we also had an uncooperative daycare that would not allow him to wear underwear, only pull ups. It wasn't until we moved him to a new one that I think he completely got it.

For night time, he only gets up maybe once or twice a week to go. I'm not pushing it as our pediatrician says they need to be developmentally and physically ready. It has not affected his daytime training at all.

I think pull ups really held DS back. Once he figured out how he could go in them, they were essentially a diaper that was easier to get off. They were required by daycare though while he was training, so we were stuck. He still wears a pull at night though because he's not usually dry and sometimes poops in them. I'm happy waiting until he's ready, versus having a million accidents to clean in his bed. But it definitely makes progress slower. And sometimes he pees out of the pull up too, so there's a mess anyways.