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I say, sure, why not. What's the worst worst that can happen?

LO is 26m and has been doing essentially the same for months. The only reason, I think, *she* isn't fully potty trained is because I've been to lazy to give it the final push. We're going out of town this weekend but when we come back I plan to keep her home on a Friday and give it a final push.

Since its a holiday weekend will you be out and about or will it be a quiet weekend? I will say from what I've read on the 3 day method, the key to success is no distractions for you. It's on us the parent to take them frequently!

P. S. LO is in the 2 room and a lot of her classmates are already potty trained.

Also I think of night time potty train as a completely separate entity!

I wish I had experience here but we're pretty much in the same camp. DS is about 2 years, 5 months as well and we're getting lots of mixed signals. But I blame a lot of it on baby sister (13 m younger)

He'll tell me after the fact that he's dirty and has no problem staying dirty
Will pull pants and diapers on/off by himself sometimes
Tell me if he's had an accident when we do diaper free tim
Has sucessfully peed and pooped in the potty
Knows the Daniel Tiger song about "If you have to go potty..."
Has big boy underwear but no desire to keep it dry
Knows how to open the bathroom door to go potty/ has his potty seat in easy reach
Doesn't announce when he needs to pee or poop
Denies being wet or dirty even though he obviously is

This is such a hard time for us! And it drives me crazy. Big hugs momma! We'll get through this together

i said other because why force the issue if you/he REALLY doesn't want to? i mean, if you want to do it, go for it and commit, but if not, then wait a month or so and reassess!

I would not. He doesn't sound like he wants to, so forcing him won't likely work. It's not about his age, it's about his readiness.

No I wouldn't train at this time, but I am not on board with the thee day method. Instead, I just brought him at timed intervals and we didn't have him running around peeing all over the place (not my style).

eta: when we trained, my son was already 3 and it was super easy. We didn't train earlier because we had a long airplane ride coming up and I didn't want to go back and forth between pull ups and underwear. So we waited until the trip was over and we were acclimated back to our time zone. It took a few days.

I would say go for it, as long as you are prepared. Meaning, you will be ok if it doesn't go as smoothly as you hope. We tried potty training my DS over a long weekend around the same age (which is the age my DD got potty trained) and we threw in the towel after a day after I realized he wasn't ready and I didn't want to fight him over it. We waited until a few months ago at age 32 months he was complaining about wet diaper, asking to wear underwear, etc. and it was as easy as can be. Good luck!

Did you do it? I just saw this thread. We used the long weekend for potty training. The first day I was worried that it wasn't working at all, but day 2 and 3, everything clicked. Our daughter also showed only some signs of readiness (I'd say fewer signs of readiness than your son). It turns out though that Elmo undies and gummy candies as potty treats are a huge motivator.

Oh, that's too bad. I wouldn't worry too much though. It's still early, and you can try again later. We didn't do bottomless. The week before potty training we went to Target w/ DD and bought her Elmo undies and My Little Pony undies. She was so excited about those, that part of the success of potty training came from allowing her to wear her undies. She was pretty unfazed by wetting her pants, so I thought it all might be a no-go, but she figured it out in the end.