Hi,

I'm Ashlea, just helping out here for the week whilst Merith is away! Anyway whilst i'm here i have a quick question of my own for mums of boys! I have 2 girls and  a boy, both girls were very easily potty trained using Gina Ford's potty training in one week book, however Toby is proving a little more difficult.

At first he had a fear of the potty but now i can get him to sit on it for a couple of minutes so i am getting there with him slowly, but i've noticed sometimes the way he sits on it his willy seems to poke over the top a bit so if he were to have a wee it would probably not go in the potty anyway!

It is a mothercare chair type potty, has anyone else had this problem before and is there any other better pottys someone could recommend if so?

Ashlea x

CL on...
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Hi,

Not that I have a boy but what I have heard from friends and sisters is that with boys they didn't bother with a potty coz it hardly ever stayed in and went straight for the toilet with a step or stool so they could reach.

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ectre xxx

Hi

I wondered that too with my son! I was told (and it works) that you need to teach him to poke his willy in, he should get it pretty quickly and proudly do it lol.

We also have a "Duck potty" which he has to sit astride because it has a great big duck's head with handles (almost like a rocking horse style without the rocking lol) and that automatically has him sitting the right way and is his favourite, where my daughter liked the chair style best.

My son isn't potty trained (only turned 2 a few weeks ago) but has had phases of interest and successfully uses potty and toilet (if lifted on at his request) from time to time - I am in no hurry to train him til he's totally ready as DD basically trained herself once she was ready, at 2 and a half. (That was after a couple of failed attempts with and then giving up, but when she decided she didn't want a nappy any more she only had 1 accident in the first week and less than a handful over the following months and that seems to me ideal!) Boys are supposed to be later on average but he showed interest earlier than his big sister ever did, unfortunately a holiday involving a very long drive a month ago, when he was getting very into not wanting to use his nappy at all for poo or be in a wet nappy for even a second, meant I didn't immediately follow up on it properly and he seems to have lost interest. I haven't tried letting him stand, am told he will work that out for himself soon enough!

Good luck!

Hilary

Thanks for both of your replies,

I think because we only have an upstairs toilet and he really isn't that quick getting up them, going straight to the toilet at first isn't really an option, i will try what you've said though Hilary, it will just be getting him to remember to do it.

It's not every time he sits on the potty, it seems to depend how he sits, but 9/10 times it seems to be aiming out! Funnily enough though with what you say about standing, because he has seen daddy do it he does tend to try out standing in front of the potty too but doesn't quite get what he's supposed to do next lol.

Ashlea x

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Hi Ashlea and thanks for this week!

Not sure what shape your potty is, but perhaps you could get him to sit on it backwards, facing the higher back?  My nephew did this.  I just used to tell my boys to make sure their willy was pointing into the potty.  It's good practice for later on when you want them to be aware of where they are aiming!

Merith xxx

 

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