To reverse potty regression, make your expectations to the child clear, reinforce the potty training, don't punish the child and stay calm.
Avoid giving into the child's regression of potty training and don't revert back to diapers even when they are having accidents.
Even when the child keeps peeing in their pants or pooping their pants, simply help them clean it up and keep reminding them to use the toilet and take them to the toilet when you you have too.
Eventually the child will start going to the toilet again.
To fix potty training regression you may need to take a step back and start offering gentle prompts again at certain times of the day, or even extra praise and rewards for their success.
Be sure to respond to all accidents in the same calm, matter-of-fact way, encouraging the child to try again next time.
Scolding or shaming will only do more harm than good.
Regression in potty training is a child's sudden neglect of potty practices such as peeing in their pants, pooping their pants, desire to return to diapers and not going to the toilet.
Regression in potty training is normal and having a new baby in the family or the child simply wanting to be the baby or just wanting to wear diapers can cause potty training regression.
Boys should be potty trained sitting down and then eventually they can learn to stand up to pee.
In the beginning they should be potty trained even with peeing by sitting down until they can learn to aim and then you can teach the boy to pee standing up.
Boys are harder to potty train than girls and most boys take longer to potty train than girls do.
The reason girls are easier to potty train than boys is because girls tend to be more advanced in their language and physical development and these skills help the girls potty training move forward easier.
Boys tend to be less advanced in language and physical development which prevents the potty training from moving forward as it should.
The most common age to potty train boys is between the ages of 2 years old to 3 years old.
Most boys are potty trained by age 3 although some boys may not potty train until age 3 and 1/2 years to 4 years old.
Some boys are potty trained as early as 18 months of age but even when you begin potty training at 18 months the child still needs lots of help with using the toilet.
When it's all said and done even starting as early as 18 months the child is not fully potty trained and able to use the toilet independently until age 3 to 3 and 1/2 years old.
If you wait until at least 3 years old the boy will have better bladder control and be more able to get to the toilet on their own and pull their pants up and down and wipe without much or any assistance.
I've always waited until my kids were 3 before even beginning potty training and went straight to underwear without using pull ups.
Once they were 3 my kids both boys and girls all potty trained within a few weeks to a few days.
When you potty train as early as 18 months or under 2 years to 3 years old it's more the parents being trained to take the child to the toilet and remind the child to use the toilet.
If you potty train before 3 you will be dealing with lots of accidents which means in reality the child is not ready.