TT and pulling up pants!

[littlesox]

DS is 2.5 and has been daytime toilet trained for a couple of months. He can pull his pants up reasonably well and so I'm really trying to encourage him to do it himself but it seems to have become a battle of wills with him seeming to ignore my requests! I'll often pull them up for him just so we can get out of there .

Perhaps I'm expecting too much of him and should just pull them up for him until he indicates he wants to do it himself?? I'm happy that he's at least telling me he needs to go and that most the time it all goes in the toilet, so I definitely don't want to make an issue where there doesn't need to be one. But, a little less time hanging in the lav would be great .

[mum2lucas]

At least he is wearing pants Jules Lucas likes to take everything off to wee and then doesn't want to put it back on!

[littlesox]

Oh Eddy does that sometimes too! He and Stu call it going "nuddy-pops" . Eddy takes everything off as well ... including shoes, so I'm glad he just wears Crocs all the time

[Gis]

Oh, isn't that frustrating? When I worked in CC I got that all the time, insisting they take off shoes, socks, pants, undies...often for a false alarm...then by the time they get them all back on, they need to go again. :Laughing:

[furkids]

My DS is a bit younger than yours but is fully day trained but cant seem to get his pants down. He can pull them up but again would rather strip and be nude given half a chance

I've decided just to keep doing both until he wants to do it himself. The amount of times I hear "DS do it" for everything else, I figure eventually it will move across to pants as well.

[Wems]

My kids just don't wear clothes so no dramas there

and I don't go to the toilet with them so not an option for me to do it there anyway

If they wanted help putting them on they would just come find me or else they would do it themselves or go without

[MadMel]

if I am in the toilet with them then i do it. Even now. But if I am not they have to do it. Let him walk around with them around his feet for a while, I think he would probably not find that fun and maybe pull them up himself
I had issues with wiping Chases bum... one day I said no more and told him every time to wipe it himself. He argued a little but I just told him no. No more issues now He was 2 as well.

[MelZ]

I think you find they just click one day.

DD just couldnt get her pants off in time without help, she was brilliant at daycare, because they asked constantly and helped her take her pants off.

Now she will take her pants right off and not put them back on again, and she goes through phases with knickers. Sometimes she will wear them and do it well, then she sometimes takes a step backwards and has accidents when she is wearing knickers (maybe she forgets and thinks she has a nappy on).

But overall I found one day she just clicked, and was able to do it, after months of wearing no pants at all, or skirts with nothing underneath (all this at home and in the summer) then one day she was just able to do it. she just figured it out for herself

[AliP]

It happened here to us at the same age. I wouldn't make too big a deal of it and the enjoyment of having someone else pull up your pants will pass