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My son was 2.5 when we trained. He wasn't interested at all and we kind of forced it on him. I wanted to take advantage of the fact that it was summer and he could run around naked at home or we could find a bush outside if necessary. We did the 3 day method and it worked the first day for pee! We gave M&MS as a reward. Daycare was on board and had us bring a potty chair to use there and they really encouraged him to go. Poop took about 2 weeks. He knew he shouldn't do it in his underwear, but would wait until we put a diaper on him for naps or night. After that, we didn't do any specific night training. After about a month after the initial potty training, he started waking up dry, and after about 2-3 months, we no longer used diapers at night.

As for gear, we had both the Baby Bjorn potty chair and toilet trainer. After awhile he really just used the toilet trainer. We also never did pull ups or training pants, just regular underwear.

@Applesandbananas: The Gerber padded training underwear are what we used. They're kind of expensive (for underwear), but they absorb *some* pee, which makes accidents slightly less of a mess. I ordered them from Target.

We started ours out training with the kids at his daycare. They would take him every hour and make him "try". That was at 2.5. We thought since he was doing in regularly there that it would be easy at home. We did pull ups around 3 at home. That was a bad idea. He would get to playing and just go in them since to him
They probably still felt like a diaper. Finally after a few months of that, we went cold turkey right to little undies. He had a few accidents but he felt it and he didn't like it. After that it got easier and he learned his cues. The most important thing I learned is that he would do it when he was ready and on his own time. I think we were fully potty trained at 3.5. He's 5 now and occasionally he has an accident at night but it's few and far between.