Thanks ladies. I definitely feel the pressure! I don’t want him to fall behind and keep asking myself what did I do wrong. I just want him to be happy (and as a bonus maybe not have to deal with as many diapers 😉)

Definitely wait until he seems more ready. With my 2 oldest I got a little kiddy potty from Walmart and put it in the livingroom and got potty shows of their favorite characters. Theres a whole DVD called potty time with daniel tiger, dinosaur train, cat and peg, and more. That helped a lot.

PS- It's very stressful and hard, because a lot of times family is chiming in or friends and making comments, or you just feel they aren't where they should be. 3 is still very young! <3

He just doesn't sound like he's ready. At his age, it has to have "buy in" from him, he has to want to do it. He's seeing it as a negative, like his good old reliable diaper is taken away from him, so potty training=bad. My daughter potty trained late, and it was a constant battle until we took a big break from it and came back to it with it being "her idea". Like she gained new privileges and things from being able to not need diaper changes, like special trips to the children's museum. I am not at all trying to be critical. It sounds like it's become a battle and he is going to dig in and ultimately he is is control, you can't make him do it.