potty training a boy! what's age is good?????

Question

my 2 year old seems very intrested in the potty! he has a seat that gose on the tolit! we have been battling w/ diper rash, so i keeped him in undies today! he either pees in them & then tells me, or tells me & gose to the tolit! he peed himself about 8 times, but used the tolit about 9! now he refuses to put a diper on!! how do i get him to wear one to bed?? is this good start, or should i wait?? people have told me not to try untill they are almost 3!! not my first kids, but my first boy!! any info. will be helpful!!! thanks!! :)

too many good answers to pick, so i'll put it to vote. thanks everyone.

Answer 1

Boys, unlike girls, kinda let you know when they're ready. My son didn't break until about 2 1/2. I put the undies on him in the daytime and diapers at night. I took him every 2 hrs or less until he got the hang of it. It's harder to train a boy but time and patience will prevail.

Answer 2

If he is that interested then he is ready! He is early but that is a good thing!
Potty training is hard if for no other reason than the LAUNDRY!! Just accept it as a fact of potty training. When you leave your home ALWAYS take 2 -3 changes of clothes and plastic grocery bags to wrap up the peed on clothes. Acceptance of this routine will make it easier for both of you - pretty soon he will get sick of it and make it to the bathroom.
Try to use a 'pull up' at night rather than a diaper tell him they are special pants for big boys like him.
Animation goes a long way for kids his age! So, ask him things like "is there pee in your tummy? Listen to your tummy?" He doesn't care about the difference between his bladder & his stomach but they usually find the idea of listening to their bodies a fun & fasinating game.

Be strong!! It will pass!!

Answer 3

i think of that's fairly late for coaching. My daughter became into potty experienced at sixteen months and my son at 22 months. Does he use a potty chair at residing house? if so he must be terrified of falling in. My nursery suggested my son became into too youthful to coach yet I asked them to objective and particularly quickly all the two twelve months previous boys have been entering into mutually. See in the event that they could take all of the little boys at as quickly as. Or examine the full classification a e book at tale time like "as quickly as upon a Potty" and communicate approximately it. Or make a objective out of loo paper and have him attempt to shoot it. they like this. There must be too a lot thrilling stuff going on in his classification for him to choose to take holiday. he's likewise unlikely to do some thing the different teenagers are not. in lots of circumstances teenagers get moved to an older classification around their birthday and particularly often a call for for 3 twelve months previous classification is being potty experienced. See in case you may confer with him approximately that danger and how he's attending to be an excellent boy now. Or that the nursery needs his nappies for the little toddlers - will he help out and commence making use of the potty so as that the toddlers can get replaced.

Answer 4

Around ages 2 and 3.

Answer 5

2 years old is a good time to start, to make it interesting for him get him a target. I potty trained my 2 year old , letting him pee on the car tire. He got a kick out of it, after few times of peeing on the tire he was ready to aim at the toilet.

Answer 6

You are doing the right thing...if your son is interested in using the potty, go with it! It is very normal for them to pee and then say they need to go, as he will have to learn to recognize the sensation of having to go! As for diapers at night, you might try pull ups, they have ones w/ Lightning McQueen on them, they look like undies...good luck!!!

Answer 7

He sounds like he's at the point to start now. Teach him to tell you when he feels he needs to go--not at the point of going. There are diaper pants that can be worn at night that should come in his size in the store. They look like diapers, but they're mini underpants. I would try those on him at night.

Answer 8

My daughter is 9months old, and although she might be a little young to really understand, we've started introducing her to the potty.. She sits on it sometimes. We plan to start properly training her at 1.5years old.

I think its just up to the mother, and when they feel their child is ready to use the potty. Personally I think that 2 is a bit old to begin potty training but better late than never.

Perhaps you could explain to your son that the diaper absorbs his pee and keeps his bed dry or something like that.

Answer 9

You can start now, by all means, during the day but you'll need to make him wear one at night or you will be changing sheets daily for a while.

Answer 10

BTW ... Two is NOT a bit old to start potty training. Most boys are not fully potty trained until they are 3 years old. If you start to early with a child you will only set them up for failure. According to the AAP children that are pushed into potty training too early often aren't "fully" trained until they are 5 years old - they will continue to have accidents on and off through the years.


If he’s seems interested in the potty then now may be a good time to start. My son also got really interested in the potty just after he turned to two. Is your son sleeping through the night and waking up with a dry diaper? If he is then he may be ready to be potty trained. If you don't already have a little potty for him then get one and make a big deal about it being a "big boy" potty and just for him. You may also want to get a book to read with him. I really like "Too Big For Diapers" it's a Sesame Street book (it's short and to the point some are just too long). A lot of people suggest the sink the cheerio game but that isn't something you would use until you are ready to have him stand up and pee; most boys start off sitting to pee it's better for control. First thing is to get take him straight to the potty when he wakes up (after night time and naps), if he has been dry all night he will surely have to go in the morning. I did the rewards system at first with my child (gave him a sticker) but soon gave that up, most health professionals will tell you not to give the child a treat or whatever that the going to the potty like a big kid is the reward. So cheer and clap and make a big deal when he goes. I tried to potty train my son when he was not quite two and a half, he was pretty advanced in most areas and seemed interested in the potty. It turned out to be too early. He ended up holding his bowel movements and getting constipated so I stopped trying to potty train and just trying to get him to have regular BM's -TMI I know :)! So about 4 months before my sons 3 year b-day he was doing better with his BM and I could get him to go number 2 on the big potty if I caught him in his I am about to go squat so I figured he was now ready to start potty training again. Oddly enough you can usually get your child to poop on the potty before pee, especially with boys; so when he you see him in position grab him up and show him he can go on the big potty. I didn't mess around with pull ups I just put him in underwear (my secret was I put a thin panty liner in his underwear so if he did have an accident it wasn't that bad. I would then have him go to the bathroom every 30 mins and try and go most times he could squeeze a little out. After a couple of days with no accidents I would wait longer and longer between trips to the bathroom. After a while he started holding it on his own and I could then tell when he had to go and I would take him. He was fully potty trained in less than 5 days. It also helps to have him see his daddy using the potty since they have the same equipment - I even asked my husband sit down to pee so that my son was going just like daddy .. lol.

I think what worked best for us was making sure he was really ready and putting him in underwear. I did use pull up during nap and bedtime for about 3 weeks but when he always woke up dry and put him in underwear to sleep in and he has done great. The "big boy" underwear act as a great reward for using the potty it he is having too many accidents you can tell him he has to go back to the baby diaper until he earns the underwear back by staying dry. If your child is actually ready to be potty trained it will only take maybe a week if that, any longer than that and they really weren't ready! But you definitely want to be consistent going back and forth between underwear and diapers can be confusing for your son. If your child is really ready to learn the entire training process shouldn’t take any longer than a week if you are consistent any longer than that and he may not be ready. GOOD LUCK!

Another good point is to be patient, getting frustrated with him for peeing on the couch will only make him more anxious. They don't want to disappoint so you just state things matter of fact, 1 time is an accident 2 times means we need to put baby diaper back on until we can stay dry.