Best Way to Potty-Train Your Boy

If you have a little boy and are getting ready to tackle the challenge of potty training good luck! I sure wish my son would have came with a manual straight out of the birth canal. I have to say I have two children one boy and one girl and my daughter learned to potty on a big girl seat before the age of two. My son on the other hand was over the age of three.

Why the differences when you raise both the same and try to work with each child just as diligently as you did the other? I'm not sure, professionals over the years claim boys are slower than girls in allot of areas when their smaller.

I first tackled this adventure with great expectations. I was excited and I wanted my son to be excited as well. I used the oldest trick in the book, the reward system. If you potty in the toilet for Mommy I'll give you a gummy worm or a skittles. Don't try this one unless your prepared for the miniature future charmer to trick you. My son would run and sit on the potty and yell," I did it.. I did it!" And then he would hold out his hand for the treat. I of course got very emotionally pumped up, checked the toilet only to see no evidence he did anything but scam his Mom.

You may want to try the old Cheerios trick. This is where you place Cheerios or Fruit Loop's in the toilet and try and get your future hunter to aim at the Cheerios. This did not work for me because my son seemed to always be hungry and I caught him fishing for the Cheerios with his tiny hands.

Each night my husband came home we would go over the day's events. I would express to him the challenges I faced with the whole potty training. My husband decided he would give it a try. He took my then three year old son into the restroom with him. His idea was to show my son if Daddy can do it so can you. Beware, all this teaches your son is how to spray the toilet seat and floor.

We bought one of those musical kid's toilets that we placed in the restroom. I told my son he was a big boy and to use his own potty, plus this prevented any future fishing with my toilet. My son would run to me and exclaim I did it Mom come see. I would run to the bathroom dropping whatever I was doing and find that he pulled his training pants down, and went pooh in my floor. Now were getting somewhere is what I thought.

If your son has the concept down and yet still not completing the task, then the last thing you should do to get him completely trained is put him with another child his age that's trained. I had read every Doctor Spock book and child potty training book I could get my hands on.

I was sitting on my front porch one morning watching my son play in the yard with the neighbor boy who was four years old. The neighbor kid decided he needed to release himself and so he proceeded to dig a hole. My son watched as he proceeded to go in the hole. Quickly my son pulled down his training pants and went as well in the hole.

So the best advice is, once you've exhausted all other means of training your son and you've reached your limits of sanity, try this one. Let him play daily with other boys who are trained. It worked for me and many other children that I had the pleasure of watching and training in the child care facility I worked for.

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Author: Candus Poyner

Parent: Candus Poyner