Spiderman Boxer Briefs - Successful Potty Training

If you have been reading my blogs, you know that I have been trying to potty train my three year old for about a year now. Honestly though, I have not really been firm in exercising the necessity of him becoming fully potty trained until a few months ago. Now it comes to do or die time. Although he is physically and mentally ready to move to the next pre-k level, his teachers have informed me that unless he is fully potty trained before school starts back on August 11, he will NOT be moving up to the next grade with his classmates.

At first I was very upset over this, but what can a person do. I truly understand how they feel. He is a big boy, even taller than most in his classroom, and he should be totally potty trained by now. I try, I really do...but he does very well in school and does horribly at home. I don't understand this trend. I keep his big boy underwear on him at home after he gets home from school until he has an accident in them. Inevitably he always has an accident in them. I place him on the potty every 30 minutes, but for some reason he will have a boo boo accident not even 20 minutes later. Frustrated, that ends it for me in the toilet training department for that night. Between getting dinner ready, preparing the kids baths, tidying up the house, and catching up on work for the office, I simply can not keep stopping to clean up potty accidents. What to do?

The one thing I decided to try was to get him some new undies. I went to Big Lots and Lo and Behold I saw some Spiderman Boxer Briefs in his size. I grabbed a couple of boxes in took them home. When he saw them, he immediately took off his pull up and put on the boxer brief. That A Boy! To my amazement, he loves wearing those undies! Also, he does not want to get Spiderman wet or dirty, so he actually goes to the potty on his own (most of the time). We did have a minor set back a couple of days after this breakthrough because he got really sick. I tried to keep the undies on him, but the diarrhea just made it impossible. A few days later once he felt better, I started back with the Spidey Undies. It has been touch and go since then, but please keep your fingers crossed for us. If I can't get him trained within the next 30 days, he will be the oldest, smartest, and tallest pre-K little boy in his pre-k 2 classroom. (He is 3). Please let me know if you have any pointers.