I'm so sorry you're sick!! I hope you feel better soon. And try not to stress (I know, not very helpful) about the potty thing. It will happen when he's ready. When Connor quit hiding behind the chair to poo in his diaper and started saying "I'm WET! Get this OFF of me!" we knew it was time. lol. But I know it is stressful. He never walked until he was 14 months and I was sure he'd be crawling into kindergarten . . . or college. Mommy stress/guilt - what could be better? aargh. Feel better!
hugs,
me

Oh, Whitney, I laughed so hard at the mental picture of Sam waving the training pants over his head that I almost needed a diaper!

It's tough, but Alesia's right. Don't let people railroad you into forcing him before he's ready. It just turns into a power struggle.

Poor Whitney! How miserable. Sick *and* coping with others who think Sam should be doing something based on *their* idea of a timetable instead of his own. Since there were no kids in diapers once my son started kindergarten a couple of years ago (now he's a big second grader!), I'm pretty sure that even Sam will have mastered it and given up his diapers by then. Until *he* decides it's time, though, it's not going to be happening. You know how 3 year olds are...they are the very definition of stubborn!

I had to laugh Whitney. I went through the same thing with my son. He was almost 4 by the time he was potty trained. The funniest thing is, I kept pushing it and he continued to do his own thing. I tried the "big boy" comments, the cheerios and pull-ups. He refused to go in the potty. For about a year I told him that he wanted to make his daddy proud when he got back from Iraq. Wouldn't you know it, the day his dad got back from Iraq was the day he decided that he was completely done with pull-ups.

I had a similar experience, too, Jo! I told my son in spring he couldn't wear pullups to preschool the following fall, and he dawdled and dawdled and when I said it again week later, he told me, "Preschool's a long time from now."

And the week it began, he stopped wearing a pullup. Whitney -- if you impose a deadline on Sam, make it one that is coming up SOON!!! They're such control freaks.

We're going through the same thing here. Nicholas turned three in January and is the only non-potty-trained kid in his preschool class. But whenever I try to get him to use the toilet he says, "Tooooomorrow."

Just commiserating with you on the potty-training thing. My own stubborn 3-year-old decided she was done with diapers about 6 months before her body was ready to pee on command. Thinking back on my late-training son and my early-training daughter, I'd take the late-training in a heartbeat. It's much easier on your sofa.