My oldest was toilet trained by 20 months - of his own doing - and he trained himself at night before he stopped having accidents during the day. What we did to help him though was not let him drink anything after 2 hours before his bed time. My son is now just over 3 and has just started wiping his own bottom at his request...he still needs me to have a quick wipe after he's done too but he loves the independance! I suggest just encouraging him, telling him big boys wipe their own bottoms, etc, and just going along with him until he's ready. Good luck!

My son is now 3 1/2 months. He's been potty trained for a 1 year and I've only recently stopped using night time diapers. He rarely wets himself at night, but on the occassion that he does, I wanted him to wear a diaper so I wouldn't have to get up in the middle of the night to change sheets.  But lately I just decided that he couldn't drink too much fluid just before bedtime. This helped a lot and then I added the fact that either my husband or I get him up to pee before we go to bed. Our son usually goes to bed at about 8:30 - 9 and we go to bed about 10-11. And getting him up at this time to pee has worked like a charm for us. He hasn't wet his bed at all, so now he's diaper free at night.

Perhaps you can try that? Even he doesn't want to part with his diaper, you can show him that it is possible for him to be dry all night long and he may eventually let the diaper go. Good luck.

I also have a four year old who I would say is not totally night time trained. We don't let her drink an hour before bed, take her to the toilet right before bed (7.00), then take her to the toilet at 10.30 - she doesn't wake up for this, as we carry her in, and she doesn't remember it next morning. We find that she sleeps very heavily for the fist half of the night, and if we don't take her, she will wet and not even wake up. Second part of the night, she has started occasionally waking up if she needs to go, but the fluid limiting and two toilets before mean this is very rare. I think it will all happen when she is ready, and suggest not to worry too much. You might find school and kinder make a difference to motivation to grow up.

Jett may be going thru a patch of wanting the comfort of you wiping for him. Kids do this kind of thing when they are feeling a little stressed. Don't worry; help him for now & make a big fuss of him when he does it himself.

Having his very own potty in his room may make him feel more enthusiastic about getting up to pee in the nite... I used a toilet-trainer seat on top of an old icecream tub for my daughter. She loved it!

Hi. Maybe you try getting Jett to go to the toilet before going to bed. The other thing that is a great idea is to wake Jett through the night. Also once Jett wakes up you need to make sure he goes straight to the toilet. All of this should make him feel more secure.  In regards to his wiping problem - you know the old saying, are you a folder or a scruncher? One of my twins had the same problem because she did not want poo on her hand. So I taught her to fold up the paper and she found that much easier to do. Therefore no more dirty hand worries.

Good Luck.

Rimmos