Moms of boys: potty training help

mavs_girl07

So we've just recently decided to PT DS.  He's showing all the signs and lots of interest in it.  In the last couple of days he's started holding his diaper and telling us he's about to pee or poop, so we sit him on the potty and he goes.  So we've decided to jump right into it and give it a shot.  We let him pick out big boy underwear, we got some M&M's for rewards.  I guess my biggest question is, is it easier for them to learn to pee sitting down or standing up?  If we try it standing up, he just stands there completely confused and gets distracted after like 2 seconds.  He's much more likely to go sitting down on the little potty, but then his pee shoots out on to the floor.  We have a ring that sits on the big potty, and he does do well with that (and when sitting the pee actually goes where it's supposed to go) but we're not always near a bathroom.  It's much easier just to move the little potty into whatever room we're in so he can sit on it at a seconds notice.  Advice?  How did you PT your little boy?

ETA:  Also, my ticker needs to be updated.  He's about 2 1/2 now. 

MrsPteranodon

Is he tall enough that his penis could make it into the toilet with out a stool? Buddy just potty trained like a month ago and he stands because he can reach. Until that point id have him sit down

mavs_girl07

Not without the stool, no.

bakerlm

MrsPteranodon:

Is he tall enough that his penis could make it into the toilet with out a stool? Buddy just potty trained like a month ago and he stands because he can reach. Until that point id have him sit down

This is exactly what we did.  We started training sitting.  Once he was confident, he came to me and said, "I want to pee like a man." Dh handled it from there. 

bakerlm

MrsPteranodon:

Is he tall enough that his penis could make it into the toilet with out a stool? Buddy just potty trained like a month ago and he stands because he can reach. Until that point id have him sit down

This is exactly what we did.  We started training sitting.  Once he was confident, he came to me and said, "I want to pee like a man." Dh handled it from there. 

amykins1283

We potty trained by going straight to underwear and we had him sit. I showed him how to use his hand to push his penis down so it wouldn't spray and he caught on pretty quickly. We are just now starting the whole standing up thing and he is 3.

mavs_girl07

Ok so I guess we're on the right track there as far as sitting vs. standing. What about little potty vs big potty with the ring?

chardonnay24

We have a potty in the living room and in his bedroom, plus a potty ring in his bathroom. He's much more comfortable using the little potty seats and we are having him sit. I think my nephew was about 3.5 or 4 when he started peeing standing up. We're not having any problem with pee going anywhere except where it's supposed to and he doesn't need to hold his penis down or anything.

MrsGoodkat

mavs_girl07:

Ok so I guess we're on the right track there as far as sitting vs. standing. What about little potty vs big potty with the ring?

We use a little potty - the Bjorn one. I like it because the splash guard is high enough so that it helps keep the pee from spraying out. We're only just starting so he still only goes on it sporadically, though. He wouldn't be able to reach the regular toilet standing up without a stool yet and I feel like that would be a great mess right now with him. 

SandiaPinaMama

DS potty trained around 20 months. We bought Gerber training pants from Target. We have a baby Bjorn potty chair, and a munchkin arm hammer potty ring for the toilet, and a portable potty for the car that came with a travel ring, I think its Fisher price. He uses all of these with regularity, and seems to like them all. At home we lost often use the potty ring on the toilet. Also, I have a tall Ikea childrens step stool to sit on while he goes. Much easier on my back if he's gonna be a few minutes.