My son is nineteen months old. He seems to be interested in the potty. Dad has no real interest in potty training him. How do you potty train a boy?
Thank you for all the great advise. I thought potty training a girl was hard. I hope that it goes a little more smothly this time. I know that he will get the hang of it one day. Thanks again everyone.
Hi K.,
My name is S. and I have a 10 year old son. We potty trained him using cheerioes. I know it sounds insane. But everytime he goes in the bathroom keep a bowl of cheerioes in there. And when he says he needs to go, throw a cheerio in there and tell him to sind the cheerio. My son thought it was a gome so he wanted to go in the toilet, Hope this helps and finds you well.
Hi K.!
Throw Cheerios in the toilet and say.....AIM!!
LOL!!!
Just Me!
S.
yea do tell...my son is 2 and im trying to potty train him aswell.....but im doing this with out the fathers help so makes it harder on me every 10 min i will ask if he has to go potty sometimes he will go on it others he wont did good today though no accidents.
I found it useful when I potty trained our boy to have him use the regular toliet and put cherrios in it so he had something to aim at. We also kept a candy dish close by and he would get a reward everytime he made it to the bathroom on time.
My mother had my brother pee in a mayo jar. It gave him great aim!
I would discourage pull ups! If he is showing interest, start by taking him in every half hour or so and let him sit and try to go potty. Encourage him for trying. you amy just get lucky and actually catch him one of the times. We use stickers or M&Ms for a reward. I too would suggest going bottomless or in undies. Sometimes bottomless works better. If he pees on the floor or in his undies ahev him help you clean it up and encourage him that he will do better next time. It can take a s litle as a week to sevearl months. You can't really push it, just go with his flow of interest! And experiment with sitting vs. standing, each child is different! I do home daycare so I've done this probably about twenty times now, I lost count! But it can be done!
My boy/girl twins (also 19 months) also show a big interest- handing me toilet paper and pointing at where to use it when I potty, for one.
We went and bought a potty chair (thinking we need two now, though there isn't room for 2 in our boathroom, cause they fight over potty chair time- LOL!), but I thought about teaching him to stand on a stool to pee like daddy does, but he is still not tall enough even with the stool. They are both sitting, and they have each, in a week, peed exactly twice.
I am doing the pull-ups (Big lots has packs of generic pull-ups for $2.99) for right now.
Right now my goal is just for them to understand what it IS/feels like to go potty in the chair- and it plays music when they pee so I know when they have gone- and clap and praise them. For right now, we are only going a few times a day just to get the idea down. I don't put on the "potty pants" until after they have gone #2 mid-morning, cause changing those when dirty is not fun, I found.
Good luck to you and to me! LOL!
We attempted potty training at 18 mo and again at about 2 yrs with NO success. Looking back, I can see he just wanted ready. He obviously didn't even notice when he went in his diaper and didn't have any control yet. Putting him on the potty often times brought tears and screaming. We backed off and then tried again at about 2 1/2. We started with 'cool alert' pull ups that feel cool to the touch when wet. We also started taking him to the bathroom at times when we knew he'd have to go, like right when he woke up. We used Cheerios too which were REALLY fun for him. We could tell he figured out when he was going and how to do it. So one weekend I put him in underwear, and waited for him to wet his pants. He cried and hated being all wet, which is exactly what I'd expected and it worked like a charm. I cleaned him up, put him in cool Lightening McQueen/Mater underwear. Because he already understood when he was getting wet and how to go, he only had one slight accident after that. He was basically potty trained in a day. But if I had left him in pullups, his wife would have been changing his diapers one day.
Hello. I have an eleven year old son and at 18 months the only way I could get him to go was to set him on the toilet facing backwards. He wanted to see everything happening! (Just make sure you are there in case he gets so excited he wants to jump back!!! Learned my lesson there!)It might sound wierd, but it worked like a charm! I think he only used the potty chair twice! And when he got taller, he started standing like all the other boys. It took less than a month to get him trained!
When my son was almost 2 he showed an interest for about 2 months, then it switched. Typically, dad's are going to have less interest in potty training. Stereotypically, the dad is the one working outside the home and it's the mom's "job" to take care of stuff like that. it's also a detail thing, and guys prefer the big picture. (just pee and be done). so you will probably do the lion's share of potty training.
what worked best for us was to know there are certain timings that you could pretty much count on for "potty times" and if we made sure to hit those and then check periodically between, our actual potty training period lasted aobut 3 months (when we hit it hard and didn't slack back off when he should little interest)
Morning when he wakes up
about 30 minutes after breakfast
mid morning
about 30 min. after lunch
after waking from afternoon nap
about 30 minutes after dinner
Just before bed
For our son, it's very hard to go to sleep at night or nap if he hasn't had #2. Especially at bedtime. If we put him down before, then he wrestles around until he either gets up to go or sometimes just falls asleep from being very tired.
Once we defined potty breaks, rather than "whenever you have a moment" it seemed to make the day flow much better and was more routine for him.
I don't know a whole lot about potty training boys, but I do know that you start by having them sit on the potty to pee. It is less messy this way then if they stand up.
He is still too young for potty training. But you can start if he is interested. But dont expect any miracles just yet. Work with him at his own pace. If you want to teach him to stand when he pee's, I used fruit loops. It helps them aim and it seems like a fun game to them. Both my boys werent potty trained until they were three. They showed interest about your sons age but they werent ready at that time.
My boys trained on the potty like my nieces. They learned to go sitting down, is what I mean. But at school they go standing up. I didn't teach them that. They learned when they were ready.
Some have said to put fruit loop or cherrios in the potty for them to aim at. Your son is still young enough that you have plently of time to teach him.
Good Luck!!!!
