Any moms out there care to share the potty training of a boy advice? My oldest is 2 1/2 and shows interest.. he actually pottys on the potty just isn't always interested in going #2. He will every now and then but won't tell me BEFORE "the bomb drops." I'm not stressing over it, just wanting to know when the signs are there that he's ready for big boy undies.
Any tips or suggestions?
Friday, November 21, 2008
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Caleb showed interest, but in the interest of sanity, I took the advice of older, wiser moms who had boys and waited til he was three before I potty-trained him. More comprehension, plus I was told boys are a little slower to mature in that area than girls. Anyway, I basically set aside a time (2-3 days)where I didn't have much to do, so we could have uninterrupted time at the house, and I told him that starting that day, he was no longer in diapers. Instead I had some big boy underwear (Cars logo, airplanes, etc.) that he could wear once he learned to poo-poo in the potty like Elmo. (about a month before this, I had bought Elmo's Potty Time and let Caleb watch it. He loooved it and watched everyday for a month, so he knew all the terms and such.)
Anyway, I then followed the advice of a missionary friend of mine who trained her children while she was in Africa, the African way...which means he wore no pants..that's right..just his heiney and air. And every hour for the first day, we went pee in the potty. Supposedly not having anything on his bottom helped him distinguish the fact that there was nothing to catch the pee and poo, like it would have if he'd had underwear. We had a few accidents, but he started to get the hang of it at the end of the first day, and by day three he was wearing his underwear and peeing in the potty in the daytime. It took about a month before I was able to wean him off pull-ups at nap and nighttime, but he eventually got the hang of that too.
Thanks Mandy! That advice is MUCH appreciated! So, you let him have accidents on the floor? How does that work?
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