My son is 3

All kids are different. In my mother's generation forced potty training was a tradition, but it was not uncommon for accidents to happen up and into kindergarden. You know your son better than anyone, watch he'll let you know when he is ready. Elmo's potty time helped with my daughter too. As parents we get a lot of advice on what we should be doing, I consider good advice and quickly leave the rest behind. Good luck.

I know all kids are different as well, all 4 of my kids trained differently. Our youngest is just recently trained, and we tried the pullups, tried to bribe him to go, nothing worked. I finally got the whole family, grandma and grandpa, his older siblings, the both of us and his teachers at daycare to help and we put him in the gerber training pants, that have the plastic pants to go over, and kept at it, the daycare would take him every 30-45 min and a few times had him sit for like 20 minutes, but he would go everytime for them. Its a bit messy, but it only took a few days of peeing in his pants to get him to stay dry all day, (he waited until bedtime to poop in his pullup the first week) Now he is accident free and goes into go all on his own. We also had him take his own clothes off and put clean ones on when he had an accident, didnt scold or punish, just had him do it, and would help him if he needed it. This method you have to be really devoted and have everyone involved with his care on board to help, we did laundry every night. This is what worked for us, our older kids trained using pullups and such and only took a couple weeks for them as well. So it really depends on the kid. Just stay consistent and be persistent and it will come, he will get the hang of it, he cant and wont stay in diapers for ever.

My daughter didn't get it till she was 4. I do think (this is not a jab at anyone) mothers back in the day were more geared towards being stay at home moms ( I am a working mom and we all need to do what we need to do) and daycares do help and that is where my daughter learned first because she had the routine down for potty training. I thought I sucked as a mother and everybody tried to help ( I was soo grateful) and we tried several things out of books, from other moms I knew, and her pshychologist and pediatrition and finally she just decided to do it one day. I was very frustrated but finally I just had to relax and let things go as they would.

I agree that I don't think there's really a "right" age. My MIL is older (mid-60s) and she thought our son should be trained sooner than he was. As it is, he was fully trained (except at night) shortly after he turned 3! Anyway, I just know that pull-ups never worked for him. If it felt like a diaper, it was a diaper but he would keep underpants dry. Well, eventually. :-) Once he started wearing underwear all the time, I think he finally got the hang of it. Good luck and hang in there! :-)