I need to potty train Kaman, but I’m a little hesitant. Why? He’s a boy. I’ve only heard that it’s harder to train boys. And I’m waiting for the perfect week that I can devote all my time to this project. I know I’ll be asking him every ½ hour if he needs to go potty and encouraging him to go in the toilet NOT on my furniture. I’d rather not have to have my carpets/furniture cleaned after training him. I am more then excited to get him out of diapers. This being the last step Kaman takes from ‘babyhood’ to ‘toddlerhood’ is exciting. Oh, I’m so looking forward to being free of all the baby duties!
I need help.
First of all, does it take longer to train a boy? And do you teach him to pee standing up or sitting down? (Seriously, I need to know) Also, should I spend the money to get a portable potty or teach him on the family potty? I trained my first child with a portable potty and my second with the family potty. Both worked fine for girls, but what about training a boy. Which one?
And finally, what special tricks did you use to get your son (or daughter) to potty train?
5 comments:
Potty training Austin was a snap! I think it has more to do with personality than gender.
For sure teach him to pee sitting!! and you may as well just do it in the big toilet.
I'm sure you know how to do it, but lots of yummy juice, treats, and asking!! I also do "practice runs" with my kids where they have to pretend like they have to go potty and we read a book or sing a song while they sit. Then they get a treat for practicing. It makes potty fun. And if you do it like every 15 minutes for a few hours, you will have him potty trained in a day. Good Luck!!
I went cold turkey on Alex - no diapers or pull-ups at night or during naps.
Different treats for yellow and brown. Brown I bought Lightening McQueen cars and let him pick.
Have him sit first and poke it down (I know, TMI!!!). Once mastered, give Duane some cleaning wipes and let them have a guy-teaching moment on standing up.
Any mess in the underwear, make him take it off, and clean it up (swish, swish in the toilet). It makes them realize how gross it is and that they don't want to clean it up everytime.
Teach on the big toilet, less mess for you (and him) to clean up. Good luck and we can chat more next week :)
Well seeing I have all boys! that is all I have ever potty trained. I have potty trained them sitting down, they were all potty trained sitting on the big toilet with that small little seat that you sit ontop of it, though my 4 year old did potty train on a small toilet for just a few times. I would have to deadicate one whole day to doing it. Set your kitchen timer every 15-20 min, have them drink lots of water or juice and just take them and have them pee weather it's just a little bit or a lot. Some of mine started wearing underwear on the first day of potty training and only had one or two accidents and some wore pull ups all day and of course wore one at night. AHHHH it's all just such a pain I think! I have to start potty training my little one here shortly, he's just not quite ready yet. Hope some of that works for ya! good luck!! :) OH I forgot with our 4 year old I read dr. phil's how to potty train in a day, that is on his web site just do a search on it. It explains all about how to do that! and it worked!!
I waited until Nathan was 3 to start. Then it was pretty easy (the peeing part). We had to bribe him with litle cars to get him to do poos in the potty! Good luck!!!
My Mom did Esther and Matthew the same, and this is how she did it:
She always lets the kids pick out a bunch of candy, salty chips, soda pop, and underwear (like cars or transformers) at the store and uses it as a bribe.
They get to eat salty chips and soda pop all day long and walk around in their new, cool, big-kid underwear. When they make it to the toilet, they get some candy. If they don't, they have to wear boring, white underwear that Mom picks out.
Make sure that the laundry machine isn't being taken over, and good luck! I hope a teenager's advice can help!
Love you!
Lizzie
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