potty training a boy

fitmom82

DS will be 2 tomorrow and I'd like to start pting soon and really get it down over the summer, I'm a teacher so I'll be home.  DD was easy, we hung around outside with the little potty and every 5-10 minutes I made her sit and pee.  How does it work for a boy?  I heard they sit, but doesn't it shoot up?

sugarbear0524

Your son might be a bit young. Is he showing any signs of being ready/interested? If so, great. If not, don't push it even though summer would be convenient for you. He will have his own time table.

My son is almost 3 and is potty trained for pee, not for poop yet. He goes to daycare and they taught him to stand to pee. It's actually less messy, and he watched his Daddy for an example of how to do it.

junebugrbig

All depends on his readiness.  DS wanted nothing to do with PT until he was around 3.  We tried before then and it was a constant struggle.  We waited until he was ready and it was pretty easy.  He sat down at first and after he was fully potty trained, daddy taught him to do it standing up. 

JENandJEH

DS1 did not potty train until he was ready, no matter what we tried.  I tried many different times after he turned 2 with various rewards/methods and he wasn't interested.  He turned 3, decided he was ready and was potty trained in a day with accidents.  It's very common for boys to potty train later than girls so keep that in mind and try not to compare what your older DD did with how he's doing.  

I would look for readiness signs and try not to turn it into a battle just because it's a convenient time for you to work on it with him.  We started out with him sitting (on the big toilet with a ring insert) and within 6 months, he was standing up thanks to the little school he went to.  We threw a few Cheerios in the potty to help him aim at first but he got the hang of it quickly and didn't make much of a mess.  While they're sitting, remind him to push his penis down (many potties or potty rings have splash guards to help with this).    

Eskimokisses13

My son is almost 2.5 and he is day/pee trained, he still waits until nap or bedtime to poop most days.  DH wanted to train him at the end of last summer which was a few months before 2.   I figured it wouldn't work, but DH was adamant that he wanted to try because DS was showing interest and we had DD trained before 2, so we tried.  We did the 3 DPT method.  He got the idea but it was just too much work - we had to keep an eye on him constantly.  We tried again at 2 and he did really well until he decided that he wanted nothing to do with his underwear anymore.  He was still young so we weren't going to fight it;  we waited a few more months.  We tried again a month ago and he  hasn't had a single accident since we started again!  I am very confident that he is now trained - he knows when he has to go, can hold it long enough to make it across a mall/park/etc to the bathroom, and even asks to get out of the bath/pool to go pee. 

I know a lot of people say wait because once you train you cannot go back.  After potty training both my kids I don't buy into it, at least not for my kids.  I say give it a try if it doesn't work give it some more time and try again.  I wouldn't fight it, but I don't think there is any harm in introducing it.  DS sits on the potty.  His little potty has a splash guard so there has been no mess.

fitmom82

I was looking on another board where everyone seemed to PT by 2 and had never heard of a child not PTed by 2.  DD showed signs of readiness before 2, we tried, and failed.  After DS was born at 26 months she started ripping off the diapers, we tried again and she took right to it.  She was younger than anyone I knew though.  DS has been telling me lately "poopy mommy" which really just means his diaper is heavy, but I'm taking it as a sign that he's started to get it.  He'd actually staying still better for diaper changes lately too, and the other night he wanted me to stay with him and got upset when I left, but when I said I had to go potty, he was fine with it.  I'm taking these as signs that he's starting to get the whole potty thing so I figured I'd give it a shot.