Any moms having to potty train their boys? Advice!

lol. i totally understand where you are coming from. i have a two year old boy that will be three years old next week. and i started to sit him down on the potty. he would always freak out and stuff, and start crying. i didn't know what in the world his problem was. come to find out... the kids at his preschool were standing up to pee (well, only the boys). te teacher would line the boys up and they would pee one at a time in the potty. and i guess it was some kind of a game or something (well the kids thought so). but you know something. he started going potty, standing up. and so did alot of the other boys in the class. just because the other boys were doing it they wanted to do it to. so i son will go potty (standing up) when we tell him to go. i'm just having a problem with going to the potty when he needs to go, instead of when we tell him to go. and this morning he had a little mishap. somehow when he went to the potty he got his whole shirt wet, all the way up to his face... and pee was dripping down to his legs. i heard a cry from the bathroom "mommy, help me" and he was standing there infront of the potty, with pee all over him. i couldn't help but start laughting. but the poor child was upset...lol

LOL, yes gotta love those men! I potty trained my son on my own and always did it with him standing up. I showed him how to hold it (as best as I could). I've heard a really good trick is to put cheerios in the bowl and try to get them to aim for them, this will hopefully keep them from aiming for the back of the toilet which is what my son use to do. He thought it was so funny if he could hit the tank on the back, lol. It takes time and patience, but your son will get it right eventually. Good luck!

We didn't do too much when it cam eot potty training my son. He was in daycare at the time and they started bringing the kids to the bathroom about 2 months prior to moving into the 3 year old class. What helped us keep his "schedule" was adhering to the schedule set by the daycare. They had certian times of the day that they would bring the kids to the bathroom. I found if we stuck to that we had no accidente. Also, don't use pull ups. They don't help in the potty training they make things worse. As far as standing up to pee, that is how my son was taught. We bought a step stool for him to use at home to reduce the missing the toliet.

This discussion has been very informative. I know that I am going to keep an eye on the advice that is posted here. Being a single mom, I will have to potty train my son when the time comes. I'm sure that it is frustrating that your husband doesn't help you. Good luck.

CHERRIO'S! I used to toss a couple cherrio's in the toilet and tell my son to hit them! We made it a little game. Men don't get it...most men anyway...my husband still gets all whiney when he has to take my son the the restroom!

Potty -training Boys is Difficult. The reason he doesn't want to potty-train is because little Boys have a better sense of smell , than little girls and they don't like what they're smelling!!!!! This is hard work ( no doubt ) but if you can deliberately do this for 2- weeks straight....you'll have him trained. If you have a timer Like for cooking.... set aside a couple hours a day devoted soley to potty-training. Every 15 minutes...take him in whether he has to go , or not. Eventually he'll come to understand what those little tingles ( he's feeling ) will mean.

Just want to thank you for starting this discussion for the information I gathered has been very helpful. I'm facing a somewhat similar problem as you except that my hubby is working overseas and I'm trying to toilet train my son who will be 2 in April. He has not shown any interest in sitting at the potty or standing in the toilet to do it. I think my hubby is more cooperative in this area but the problem is he's hardly around and my little one is just not ready yet :)

I completely understand what you're going through. CJ did pretty well with potty training. Now, being 8 the only thing he has problems with is getting to the toilet before he poops a bit in his pants. I truly believe that he holds it in as long as he possibly can because, when he does finally go and shows me, it's so long and I wonder how he could have had that in his little body! He does the same thing at times of sitting and pushing it down to pee...lol. I have to keep reminding him to go pee first, then turn around and sit. Keep doing what you're doing, with or without your hubby. I can't understand men either. Good luck.

My second son wasn't trained until just over 3 1/2. We always took a 'when it's time it will happen' appraoch. The more you push, the more anxiety you will create around the whole thing, and the less likely he will learn. We trained both our boys to sit ... because ya, mom is around the house, and mom needs to sit ... and especially if hubby won't stand and pee for your son to watch ... then he has to pretty much learn to sit and pee. Eventually he'll start to stand up because that's what the kids do at school. If I were you - I'd go back to the pull ups. Clearly being wet with pee doesn't bother your son, so that tactic is only causing YOU more mess to clean up. So save yourself the heartache, let him go back to pullups. He will train eventually - try to relax a bit about it. And to people who pressure you to trasin him ... I'd tell them they are welcome to try. that will shut them up. Incidentally, my first son trained himself at 14 months - he HATED being wet. I didn't do anything differently - but one child hated being wet and the other couldn't care less. they can be sooo different.

I will be following this discussion. I have not potty trained my son yet , but when I have to I will have some advices on my hand :)

Yes, you need to pretty much make him hold it, aim it and let it happen! Try putting a few cheerios in the toilet that he can aim at. That worked wonders with my 3 boys. They loved to take aim at, and try to sink the cheerios.

I had a hard time to potty train my son. He is 4 now and just started using the potty all the time about 3 months ago. When he was 2 i got one of them little pottys and he would sit on it but he just refused to go in it. I use to hear it from family that i need to get him potty trained but just refused to push and punish him for not going. His pediatrician said in time he will go, so thats what i did. And like 3 months ago he just started going and we have no problems with him having accidents. He now stands to pee so I think by making him sit he didnt feel comfortable. I think you should do what your child feel most comfortable doing and what you have more luck with. Good luck

Hm.. well, I trained my sons both to do it sitting down on the toilet and they did it just fine, without any problems. Then one day, they spied daddy going to pee, and wanted to know why he was standing up, so we told him.. and they just started doing it standing up. Good luck.. you're going to need it.

My husband wasn't much help with this either. I just lifted my son up and told him to "aim" into the potty. He's short, so he needed to be picked up or use a step stool at first. Then he realized he can "aim" on his tippy toes. We also started him sitting down, but once he realized he could stand he liked that more.