Little Bug is an anomaly to me. Every time I think I have him figured out, he does something completely insane and I have no idea what to do with him. This has been the case with our potty training with him. About 6 months ago, I declared him potty trained. He was making it to the potty almost every single time and the times he had any accidents were due to him not being able to get his pants off in time. But in the last six weeks, he has completely regressed and I am at my wit’s end.

It started with a week where he had an accident every day. I asked him several times why this was happening, and he said he waited too long. I wrote this off as a fluke and just started checking with him periodically to make sure he was using the bathroom. The next few weeks he had multiple accidents per week, sometimes several accidents per day. Again, I tried talking to him to see if he needed something from me to help him, or if he was not able to feel when he had to go. But he claimed he knew and just wasn’t making it there in time.

Three weeks ago he started peeing through his diapers at night (he still wears a diaper at night). He also had several accidents while taking naps. He was getting to the point of at least one accident per day. It started to become apparent that he knew when he needed to go, but didn’t want to take time out to go to the bathroom. We explained repeatedly that he needed to stop what he was doing to go to the bathroom, and he definitely understood what we were saying.

He started having accidents with my mom, with the babysitters, and with us daily or multiple times per day. Yesterday, he peed his pants four times in one day. Each time I asked him why and tried to understand what he was doing and he just didn’t care. We have started associating consequences with peeing in his pants, specifically taking away his Kindle. He hates having it taken away, but even that does not seem to make an impact on him. It really does seem like he just does not care if he pees in his pants. I don’t think that these are accidents at all (with the exceptions of the times during sleep) and that he is just being either lazy or stubborn. I even took him to the doctor just over a week ago to see if maybe he had a UTI, but everything was fine.

I’m getting increasingly frustrated. He actually peed his pants at school today, which he hasn’t done in over a year. I don’t know what to do anymore and I am tired of doing multiple loads of laundry each day to combat the urine soaked clothes. I am out of ideas and I am hoping that someone from here can help me figure out some ways to help him get back on track. I have no expectations to train him overnight right now, but getting him back to zero accidents per day would be amazing.

Did you experience potty training regression? How did you overcome this and what strategies did you use to help your little get back on track?