How the Heck Do You Potty Train a BOY!! :)

If you work that one out, shoot me an email. I just took my 2 1/2 year old to the doctor. He says boys will do it when they are ready, and only then. I'd been beating myself, and my child over the head with "potty training bootcamp". We tried M&M's cheerios, videos, stickers, you name it. He said STOP the pull-ups. They are a crutch. Just use a regular diaper. Plus, it is some incentive eventually to convert to big boy pants. Pull-ups are too much like underwear. It is a step up in the child's mind to go to underwear from diapers. He says many boys won't show interest until 3years or more. Hang in there sister and know you aren't alone. I too have a head strong toddler who is very content to sit in wet pants. Best wishes!

With my two older boys, ALL we did was ask if they had to go. We started at their second birthday, asking every time we thought of it 'do you need to go potty?' we didn't make a big deal of it and didn't force it. They both knew what pottying was all about (they had seen both me and hubby do it) and we would talk to them about how diapers were not very comfortable, bulky etc., when changing them. Finally one day, each of them said yes!
My oldest was about 2 1/2 when he answered yes, he must have been ready because he only had one accident.
The second answered yes about 2 months after his 2nd bday, he has had a few more accidents then the older boy, but it was less than 10, I'd say, and confined to about a 2 month period. We are planning on trying the same method with boy #3 when his birthday rolls around.

I read in a book somewhere that they will go when they are ready, and if they are forced it becomes a battle of the wills.

BTW girls really are different, this method did not work at at ALL with my daughter, who started pottying in the toilet because her friends did it!

The cheerios in the toilet is a good idea place to start, and if there is s man of the house your son can watch daddy do the cheerio target first, and usually that will get them going, parden the pun. My son was the same way untill i had him go potty with daddy, and plenty of praise for going and maybe a reward. Thats how i did it. Dont worry he'll get there

after 3 girls who potty trained in a day I thought my son would never be interested. I left the little potty in the bathrooms for about 9m onths before he would even sit on it. Then one day he said Mom I want to use the big potty ( he totally bipassed the little potty) and he started peeing in the potty. He had bowl movements in the little one for a while. His Dad made a point of taking him in the bathroom every time he pee'd while home for those LONG 9 months. So when he was ready to be like Daddy, he was ready to be like Daddy. In fact, he potty trained himself in 2 days refuseda pull up or diaper at night and never wet the bed his first year of being trained.

So my advice, expose him to it, mention it casually, have Daddy pee in front of him often,explaining what he is doing and why ( nepresure ont eh boy to do the same) and wait. hHe will do it whne he is ready.

The first thing to do is to stop stressing. There is nothing wrong with waiting. We tried with our son on several different occasions. Try it for a couple of days, if it doesn't work. Stop, then try again in a couple of weeks. We started by putting him on the potty every 15-30 min. He got really good at holding it, so I figured he was ready. I believe that it becomes a battle of wills. He was about 3 1/2 when he finally did it. One Fri., we were running out of diapers. I told him that when they were gone, I wasn't buying anymore. I also kept reminding him every time we changed a diaper. 3 days later, it started. He had a couple of accidents, but 3 days after that, he was peeing in the potty with no problems. I was still nervous about taking him out, and used pull-ups. I know that people will tell you that you can't use them because they are just like diapers. Yes, they are, but they worked great for us & he very rarely peed in them. Pooping was a little harder. It took about 2 more weeks. We had to find a very special treat just for him that he really wanted. He got that treat every time he pooped in the potty. To give out a little TMI, I learned when he was ready to go soon because he farted a little more. Sorry, but you might find a signal from your son. We also started teaching him to stand pretty early on simply because I was usually the one to take him & it was easier. Unfortunately, I don't have any suggestions on how to teach him to aim. Cheerios didn't work for us. The best thing that I can say is, take your time & let him lead the way. He will get there.

I potty trained my little boy the exact same way I did my girl. I sat him on the potty chair, which I had out in the livingroom, every hour on the first and second day. The first day, it would take FOREVER for him to finally pee a little, but the second day he was much quicker. On the third day, after he woke up, I sat him on the regular toilet because at that point he didn't mind sitting there since he was peeing within just a couple of minutes. I let him run around on that third day with only a shirt on because as soon as I would put underwear on him, he was starting to poop. He had to go poop, but wouldn't as long as I didn't put underwear on him. He kept saying he had to go potty, but when I'd sit him on the toilet, he would say "I don't have to go!" So I knew he was holding it. Finally, after sitting him there about 5 times in 20 minutes, he pooped! He wasn't happy about it, actually was crying, but afterwards he got to pick a toy from the "poop bag" and didn't mind so much then. On the fourth day, he was totally potty trained, told me when he had to go potty mostly, but I still sat him on the potty about 45-60 minutes after he drank a lot of fluid. By the 7th day, I got rid of pullups even at night. I had started in the very beginning to cut off drinks an hour and a half before bedtime, so his pullups had been dry for a few nights in a row. He was really really easy, it just took total 100% dedication from me to sacrifice those first 3 days completely so I could concentrate solely on training him. There was a couple of times that I sat on the floor beside his potty chair for 2 hours, reading, playing, and watching movies, until he finally peed a little bit. But, 3 days of potty training.....totally worth it. Oh, and I also had a sticker chart. Everytime he peed, I let him pick out a sticker and he got to stand on the bathroom counter to reach the posterboard that I'd decorated as a potty chart, and put a sticker on it.

Boys TEND to potty train much later. My ped. said around 3, if not by 3 and half then call and come in to talk. :) We were potty trained by 3 and half.

I have two boys and I did the Fruit Loops.. I would put a few in and then tell them to try to hit the yellow or the red one. They thought that was fun and at the same time your working on your colors....lol

Well for me my son started on his own.He climbed on the potty before taking a bath and went.Then i got him a foot stool and showed him that big boys stand up and go potty. Tell him that all big boys go potty standing up.Tell him that if he goes potty like a big boy;you will give him a quarter. Do not give him the money.I called it potty money.Once he saves up to about $4 or $5 take him to wal-mart and let him pick out a cheap toy.This worked for my son.That he would get his own money and he is a big boy.And he wants his potty money and he would get so excited about getting potty money.
He will catch on and know that if he does it;he will get to buy his own toys.At night I would wake him a few times in the night and make him go potty.Sometimes when he is half asleep you will have to pull his undies down(or pullups)and you might have to make sure his peepee is aimed into the toilet. I have to do that at times.
But this is what worked for me.I hope this helps.

Our first son wasn't fully potty trained until 4 1/2 so we thought we'd balance things out by trying with our 2nd son at 18 months. Haha. After a few false starts (starting with intro to potty and explaining the process; a few stops and restarts when he wasn't ready), he started going to the potty on his own and letting us know about it. He's fully daytime trained at 2 but will still go if he has a diaper or pullup on. Definitely still diapered at night; we try to remind him every night to not pee in his diaper but to get up and go to the potty, and hopefully one day that'll happen. When we started training, we went directly to underwear that's easy to remove. No pants while at home. A few accidents in the beginning but well worth cleaning up. The standing up part followed soon after so he can be 'just like big brother and daddy'. We didn't use any reward system but hear they work for others. Hope this helps.

I waited till he was ready, cleared outings off my schedule for one week then bought a bunch of cheap elastic band sweat pants and underwear. We cold-turkey toook the diapers away (except for bed time). It took a few accidents but worked wonderfully. He was definitely ready, hiding when he had a bowel movement, telling me when he was wet, etc. Oh, we also did a sticker chart but instead of graphing them, I just drew a huge circle on a half of a poster board and we filled up the circle with stickers. He got a sticker everytime he used the potty and a Hershey Kiss for BM.
Good Luck!