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Question by abbysmom .: Any potty training tips for a boy?
My son is two and half and i decided to start potty training today. So far no luck but he has been in dry underwear for almost two hours. Anytime I ask him he goes no and when i try to explain it to him he just looks at me like he does not understand a thing i am saying. any tips and also did you potty train your boy sitting down first or standing up?
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Answer by Pepperann
I know alot of people put fruit loops in the toilet bowl and tell the kid to aim for them! or try to sink them. its like a game and it helps them aim..haha that rhymed!
good luck!
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baby steps are important when teaching anyone anything they don’t know anything about. Try and speak his language if you haven’t done that already.
Or you could just make your guy perform an example XD
sitting down; worked for my brother,.
Put a cheerio in the bowl. Have your boy try to hit it with his pee
At a certain point he’ll catch on that “big b.oys” run to the toilet and go. Keep dropping hints that big boys do that but not so often to make his self esteem drop. Celebrate every small victory. Of he runs toward the toilet but doens’t make it, smaile and be happy with him. Tell him he’ll make it next time. Physical control over holding it until you make it happens at different ages. Association of the toilet with the feeling of having to go happens at different ages. Be patient.
My son learned by copying my Dad. I tired the sitting down method and soon discovered he would only pee standing, and when I asked my Dad about it, he said he had taken my son to the bathroom with him a few times and basically let him observe him while my parents babysat him a few times. No touching involved.
Pooping was the hard part, my son didn’t like the feeling of it coming out. Eventually, he sat down and once he went, he went…..big time.
He went from diapers to the toilet by the time he was 3 and a half and we started around age 2. He’s 5 now and is going it alone. I just stand in the doorway with it the door closed and wait for him to come out, or ask me for help.
Tell him that if he doesnt pee and poop in the toilet in this instant, that you wont love him anymore. That oughta work.
He may not be ready yet. The first step is for him to understand the idea. With my daughter she knew the word potty. If someone went into the bathroom it was “daddy or mommy goes potty. There are some videos like Elmo’s Potty Time. Once he gets the concept done and there is interest you can start to try and potty train. If he doesn’t understand the concepts there is going to be a lot more wet underwear and frustration. His interest will spark more excitement when he has success. He will be upset if he is messing up and upsetting mommy but doesn’t understand what he is doing wrong.
Good Luck!
Get some age appropriate books from the library…”The Potty Book for Boys” is one. My son is 26 months, not trained, but I think I’m getting somewhere after reading him this book. I’m thinking that at least he’s getting a clue about what the potty is for and what I would like him to do with it…