Potty Training Twins
If you have twins or children of a similar age you may feel that potty training them together may seem like a time-saver, but it doesn’t always work out that way, as your children may approach readiness at different times.
A key point to remember is that not all children are ready at the same time [...]
What Age Do You Start Potty Training Boys And How?
I don’t believe in “later” or “slower” or all the other stuff. I’ve never bought into that with boys or girls. I’ve always take tne cues of readiness and want to on things from my child when it came to increasing bottles, nap schedule during the day, snacks, moving to table food and even potty interest.
My little boy actually started at 13 1/2 months because HE wanted to sit on the potty and kept after me “that that that” pointing at it and refusing to leave the bathroom. I put him on it and told him what it was and intended to take him off it and leave it at that until he was after his 2nd birthday, but he went and starting clapping! Every time he went past the bathrooom that day he wanted to go in. Sometimes he did and others he didn’t do anything. He is now 15 months old and goes on the potty about 4 times a day successfully. Yes, there are accidents still. We use diapers when we are out of the house or at sleeping times but the rest of the time we use big boy pants (and yes they do make them that small!). He gets an M&M when he goes and a sticker on a chart I made him and he loves hearing what a big boy he is and clapping for himself. I figure it may take some time to get him diaper free, but he can take his own pants off once I get them undone for him. For us this is working.
I would say if your child has shown an interest in the potty and bathroom to start explaining what the things in the bathroom are for and how to use them in simple language your child can understand. If they show interest in wanting to try, let them. I don’t believe in holding a child off because someone thinks “it’s too soon” or “their a boy” or whatever. For my litle boy Ii figure if it takes a year to get diaper free then it’s been worth it to start now. It’s work and requires a careful eye for his signals and asking through the day. I try to take him every hour on the hour, especially after we’ve eaten but it can be done.
YOU alone know your child best, not anyone else and certainly no “book” that has ever been written will ever know your child the way YOU do. I parent under the line “momma knows best” and go with what my child shows me he wants to try or be ready for so I can appropriately guide him through. It does work.
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2, and what worked for me is I sat him on his potty and we read books watched movies and he just sat their for hours until he went and then I would praise him! Once he caught on to the whole going in the potty (that took about 2 days) then I would just have the potty in the room we where in and he would use it but I would ask if he needed to go like every 10min and make him go try once an hour and he finally caught on so I moved it into the bathroom and still asked him all the time if he needed to go and I would still make him go try once an hour!! He was fully potty trained with no accidents by 2years 2months!! Oh and no pull ups go get the training undies and only use pull ups when you are out if you have to! Good luck!!
ReplyMy son is 15 months, and I have just bought a potty for him. He is regular in his movements, so I can guess when he might need it.
ReplyHowever, all we do now is he sits on it before bathtime, because he usually pees in the bath, and if he does it I’ll praise him like mad, though at the moment, it’s just to get him used to idea of what it’s for.
He has now caught on after 2 days that it’s for sitting on, I hope to have him done in about a year - but probably no earlier. Boys are typically ready later than girls, and I wouldn’t be panicking if he wasn’t until he was about 3
dont push him, boys are much later, from 3 onwards, and 3 is early, if you stress them about it, they will see it as attention, or fel they are being punished, get a potty,and keep his nappy of, when he does a wee or a poo, put him on the potty, and tell him well done, even if he doesnt dop anything, just so he gets familular with it, and stickers as a reward and a nce shiny ’special’ sticker when he eventually does something. all children develop at different ages/stages, pushing is gonna make him behind, so dont!!
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Replygood luck
with my brother we got him used to his potty by letting him play with it before we expected him to use it i think this was from about age2 and then we would let him run round with no nappie on and then for a few hours each day we swaped his nappie to pants and he is getting used to it hes now 3 and understands when he needs to go he dont always make it but hes getting there just be pateint with him and let him go in the loo with you as he will learn what he is meant to do.
Replygood luck
when he’s 3, see if he’s interested in learning the cheerios game.
Replyput cheerios in the toilet and tell him each cheerio he hits with pee, he gets a sticker (never use food as a reward for obvious reasons).
you could use fruit loops, even, (excellent use for them) and play “battleship”: 2 pink fruit loops is a tugboat, 3 green fruit loops is a submarine, 4 purple fruit loops is a liner, 5 yellow fruit loops is an aircraft carrier. when he hits all of one colour, you can yell “you sank my battleship!!!”
my little boy is 2 next week and he is pottey trained, i started training him when he was 18 months and he has been brilliant. He only wears a nappy when he is in bed. I found that he was more comforable on the toilet than on the pottey
ReplyWhenever they seem to show signs of being ready: being dry during naps, saying they need to be changed. Expect it to take awhile. My son will be 3 in August and we’ve been training since 18 months or so and still not done.
Replymy grandson has just done it and within 4 weeks he is dry day and night
Replywe waited till he was 3 and 2 weeks old and bought him a “special” toilet
we had a few accidents for a couple of weeks , then that was it
good as gold xx
18 months to 2 years. Show them to use it sitting down first then after they get used to knowing when they need to go then show them to stand up and aim. This is how I got my boys to go. Good luck!!
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