How to potty train boys?

Best method out there is letting them run around the house naked. Do NOT ever say anything negative when they have an accident or you’re going to have to start from square one. Respond to accidents with a very calm approach “uh oh, where does pee and poop go? (Let them answer) that’s right! On the potty. Next time let’s try to go on the potty!” Potty training is not overnight, it’s a lot of work and will take time. The fastest method though in my opinion is letting them run naked around the house, then after a week or two when the accidents slow put them in underwear (they will start having accidents again but it will slow again if you keep approaching it with that calm response) then a few weeks after that. Within 2-3 months my son was potty trained, rarely has night accidents but at 5 still has the odd accident.

I let him pee on tree all time but worked

I always went with their signals.I didn’t force it but,they did it when they were ready.A neat little trick tho,put cheerios in the potty and tell them to aim and hit the cheerios.

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Found this was easier with my boys …

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Wait - they will do it when they are ready and not one minute before

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Cheerios in the potty have them shoot it

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Sit them down with their favorite things

We put dish soap in the toilet and told them to make bubbles they loved it and let them run around out side with bug boy undies I suggest white can be bleached easier

It’s tough. I tried to start potty training my son at 2. He had the awfullest tantrum there ever was. I’d put him on the potty chair when he’d first get up, after meals and before bed especially, but also periodically throughout the day. I was hoping if I could “catch” him and make a big deal of it he would catch on. Well, he threw a conniption! He would scream and cry. He would get off the potty chair, sit down on his pants and underwear on the floor and go. I dropped it for about 6 months and tried again later. My mother-in-law finally got him to pee outside the kitchen door(we had a privacy fence). She told him to see how much farther he could pee each time he had to go. It worked! I had a patch of dead grass 3 feet in diameter outside my kitchen door, but I didn’t care. He was out of diapers and dry! It got a little trickier when fall rolled around. I heard the kitchen door open and the furnace kick on. I went downstairs one Saturday morning and there was my son, looking out the storm door at the heavy frost on the ground. I said, “Son, you’d better pee in the potty now or you’ll freeze to the ground till spring!” He just looked at me and grinned… then went up and peed in the “big” potty. When he was done I had his cereal waiting and his sister was up eating her breakfast. He and his sister were 16 months apart. It wasn’t long before I needed to start potty training her. I had her on the big potty upstairs. He came in from the backyard to wash off a Matchbox car. He took one look at his sister and said, “She can’t pee, she doesn’t have a tail!” She had actually started to tinkle, but that shut her off in midstream and she didn’t potty on the potty again for two weeks when I finally put her in training pants and took her and some toys, along with the potty chair to the kitchen for the day. Before the end of the day, with lots of Country Time Lemonade and cheerleading… and shushing my son about whether or not she had a tail, she was trained.

Oh crap method. 3 days and done.

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Take them ouside for the beginning

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My oldest son was like that. I put fruit loops in the toilet and told him to aim for them. My youngest son was easy. He just watched his brother and started using it and that’s when I brought him underwear of his choice

Take the diaper off and don’t put it back on

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He might not like his potty. Maybe take him to the store to pick out one he likes, make a big deal of it. Even let him decorate the outside with stickers and stuff :slightly_smiling_face:

We have a frog urinal on the wall, he loves it!

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Cheerios, they have targets you can put in the toilets at the dollar store. For my kid I showed her stickers and explained how she would get them. After a certain amount for pee or 1 poop I would let her pick out of the treasure box. I literally got a diaper box and filled it with stuff from dollar store. Growing reptiles, stretchy worms, coloring books, stickers etc. She was potty trained in a couple days and we slowly weaned off the rewards lol.

I used rewards, stickers, M&Ms, popsicles 2 boys all potty trained by 2 yrs my daughter full potty trained by 18 months

Someone said they put a target up and made it ‘a game’ for him to hit it.

Cheerios in the toilet, tell him to aim.

Real underpants and a special toy that only can be used/held while on potty. Reward stickers.

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No more diapers cotton training pants

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Keep asking every little bit… if he goes if you remind him or tell him…then keep doing g what b your doing…eventually it will happen on its own…every child is differant…patience …

Let him pee outside… no joke, worked with both of my boys…

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In the beginning, it’s all about asking/reminding them. That’s how we did it with my cousin, my niece and my eldest.

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We let both my boys go pantless and pee outside.

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Underwear only. Praise when he goes. Take him often.

Fruit loops (target) in the bowl! They aim and pee. Good luck!

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Take him every 15-20 minutes. Like house training a puppy

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Don’t put diapers on a kid that old. Many parents swear by those padded cotton undies. They can feel when they are wet and uncomfortable.

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Get rid of the diapers and pull ups and go straight to underwear. Have your Old boys show him how to aim. I potty trained my stubborn boy in a week. Also get one of these

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He needs to stop using diapers completely. Diapers keep them dry. Just stop buying them. Sure you will do more laundry for a bit but the boy will figure out that he doesn’t like being wet real quick.

Take him every 30 min. My son wasnt potty trained until about 4. Dont buy diapers. Use the potty underwear

Use a piece of cereal. Throw it in the toilet and have him aim.

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Mine got a little rash from sitting in poop cause he didn’t tell me he went. He was moving away from me while I wiped him and I told him “this is why you gotta use a potty this is yucky”. He tilted his head at me and goes “it’s yucky??” And I said yeah. Been using a toilet ever since

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Set a timer and if he goes sticker for reward like him picking out underwear. Use diapers for just night time if needed

Give him a reward each time he does it a cookie or a cracker. Clap your hands and see how happy you are and jump up and down and be joyful make him feel like he did something good.

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It was reminders until he told us himself. Every hour ish

We used oh crap method

Patience and rewards
Make a prize bucket with choices of little things he like stickers, things he will lose in 5 minutes :sweat_smile: one prize for going another for telling you. Kids love praise. Slowly back away from prizes and just give lots of good job and high fives… for example try what works for you both

I used cheerios in the toilet for them to aim at n hit…they loved it…I also would buy little toys from the dollar store kept them in a basket and when they went potty they got a toy everytime! I also never sat them down to pee or sat them backward…I had a little ladder potty they’d step up n pee sat down to poopie!!! Good luck to you!!!

Sit. Him. On. The. Tolite backward. Give him. Washable marks. To. Draw. On the. Lid. It. Make. It. A game. He. Will. Start. Using. It. Worked. For all. Three. Of mine. And. Do. A. Sticker. Charter. For ever time. He goes. Give. Him. A sticker. At the. End of the week. Take. Him to the dollar store. And. Let him. Pick. Out. One. Thing

Underwear
Only And let them Pee
Outside
Or Put Cheerios in
The toilet and have them hit them as a target

Depends where he is developmentally but my son was above the curve so at 3.5 I made him change his own poopy diapers and let him pee in the yard (we live in the country) after two times of washing poopy undies it stopped completely. Don’t let him wear pull-ups either and put in in charge of clean up. Trust me if he’s mature enough this works like a charm.

I’d stop putting diapers on him and put underwear because maybe if he pees in underwear he will see it’s uncomfortable and will start to use the toilet when he realizes wet underwear suck

I put cereal in the toilet and told my son to pee on them lol. It worked wonders

Take the diapers away and use a reward system.
He may not feel that he is wet with his diaper, so remove them and put him in underwear (that he picked out)

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I wouldn’t give up and I wouldn’t rush it my son was finally potty broke a few days before his birthday and it was due to he wanted to go to preschool and they want there kids potty broke he was fully going on the toilet in a week but I used him wanting to go to school to help and a lot of rewards like those dum dum suckers and we didn’t limit him on the suckers but if he pooped he got to choose either a sucker or a candy of his choice

<3 The potty struggle!!! I’m in the thick of potty training my 2 year old. I am asking him constantly to sit on the potty. I stopped buying diapers. We have pull ups for night and when we go out. Underwear the rest of the time. He still struggles at home. He goes to early headstart and he just started using the potty at school Friday for the first time because he sees the other boys. That’s my best trick lol! They see other boys doing it and they mirror that behavior. Your oldest sons have them all show him how they potty. Of course ask their permission because that can be intrusive to some kids but if they are okay with it have them all go potty together. Good luck momma don’t be hard on yourself or him and don’t listen to anyone shame you about his age. All kids learn differently but they all get the hang of it eventually. Your child’s mental health matters way more than what age he started using the potty!

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My son wasn’t until his 4th birthday. I gave up and lied and told him that now that he was 4 they didn’t make his size anymore and he said ok mom and from that moment on has never had an accident :triumph::roll_eyes: he’s now 7.5 :woman_shrugging:

Pants during the day, and use a toilet seat instead of the potty. Why we telling kids to go on a potty when we go on the toilet. My little one is 3 in December and he mastered it straight away day and night. My older 2 are 14 and 11 and they took ages! Toilet seat and keep asking him if he needs the toilet. Good luck

We just started potty training our son that will be 3 in a couple weeks and he is very goal oriented. We have a sticker chart and when he says he has to go potty we immediately put him on the potty and then we tell him how good he’s doing and if he goes he gets a sticker and if he gets 3 stickers in a row he gets a toy at Walmart.and the first time he ever went on his potty we took him to Walmart to get a toy so he knew it was a good thing to do. He’s gone 4 times on the potty now and has received 2 new toys from just going potty. Make it a big deal when they sit to go potty and tell them even the littlest of pee or poo is a good thing. We also gave him his favorite treat while sitting on the potty. Fruit snack or a small lollipop

underwear only. he won’t like sitting in mess and getting his new undies all dirty.

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It took me about 2 weeks to get my son fully trained and that includes overnight. First week it was every 15 mins to the bathroom. (I also trained him from the start to stand and pee so I didn’t have to retrain later) he would hop up on the stool i would throw three piece of cereal in the potty he would try to aim and sink them. If he went he would get lots of cheers and high fives. Pooping I learned the faces and actions he would make when he had to go. As soon as I seen him doing these things I would hurry him to the potty. When he pooped he would get 6 m&ms. If he got through a whole day of no accidents we would get a temporary tattoo

Stop trying to rush him. Keep doing what you are doing. Introduce pull ups & boxers & use both & let him determine when he’s ready.

My grandson is 3 1/2 & pees in the big potty but still wants a pull up to :poop:.
He wears his boxers all day but will ask for a pull up to go #2 & uses a pull up at night time.
He’s just now starting to wake up in middle of night or early morning to go potty but still pees occasionally in his pull up during the night.

Keep working with him, & rewarding him. Do not pressure or punish him. It will click when he’s ready.

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Just completely do away with diapers and pull ups. Tbh we tried alot of different things and what finally worked was rewarding.we used totsie rolls and different candy . We potty trained 3 of our boys at once. They go consistently and stopped having accidents and still working on them only going to “big” potty and wiping everytime they go #2 man idk how people did it. Especially with younger kids.

I made a potty chart and tacked it up on the wall behind the toilet. Every time he used the potty he got to put a gold star on the chart. He was 2.5-3.

We put Cheerios in the toilet and make it fun for him. See how many Cheerios he can hit :joy: Lol

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Train them exactly how you train girls. Make them sit. They will figure out the other way when they get older.

Put underwear on him and let him pee outside

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He knows the concept. He will do it on his own when he’s ready.

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Put Cheerios in the toilet and tell them to aim for it that’s how I got my son to toilet train :gift_heart::gift_heart:

Let him pick out his own big boy underwear

Pee & poop chart, one star for pee, 2 for poop. X number of stars in a week or a day gets a small prize: sticker, crayon, goldfish cracker, stay up an extra 15 minutes, bubble bath vs regular, chose Friday night pizza toppings or movie, or breakfast, lunch or dinner main dish.

What incentivized my son was he couldn’t ride the little school bus to day care until he was potty trained. Even then there were accidents, but they can be stubborn little buggers!

Potty watch. It’s a timer that can be set for 30,60, or 90 minutes. They wear it like a watch and it beeps to remind them to go to the bathroom.

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Only thing worked for my son up in till last 2 months before school was sleeping naked didn’t want to pee or poop on himself. Underwear during the day time out if went on himself reward every single time went to bathroom. Peeing outside on a tree helped he thought it was funny

Not ready. Wait until they want to

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Twins are hard. My grandbabies were.

Put cheerios in toilet n let him aim. Make a game out of it

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Had my son pee In a can . That’s how pm trainedy.brother ans it worked

Just give them some more time.

Why is it that three years old is the famous age to potty train boys.

Boys just inherently take longer.

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yrs ago it was at 2 we trained our kids.

My pediatrician told me start in the winter, cuz their less busy bodies LOL!! Personally I bought a Winnie the Pooh toilet for lots $$$ n it sang or played music n said great job every time u flushed it, but he only got to flush it when he actually went n ofcourse we cheered n were so PROUD​:purple_heart::blue_heart::green_heart:

Get him hero underwear and tell him they do not like it if they get wet or messy

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Try putting pamper on backwards it worked for my son and daughter but they didn’t potty train til about 3yrs

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It’s just like training a girl lol. You take the child to the potty every 45 minutes to a hour and watch the cues. Train him sitting down then gradually teach him how to stand and aim in the toilet. Put cheerios or something in the water and tell him to aim at those. Also give sticker rewards each time he goes. Put the pampers on backwards or put him in pajamas with the zipper but put it backwards and if it’s too hot cut the legs off and make the legs like shorts and sleeves like short sleeve. Consistency is the number 1 rule. Also you can duct tape around the pamper also but not on his skin just the pamper only to where he can’t take it off either.

My boys didn’t train until they were 3.

They show the same cues as a girl. I have both and my son was easier than my girl. My son was fully trained including nights by 2.5, my daughter is 2.5 and hasn’t even started training.

My boy did this I learned to put pants on him until he learned he could take both off

Uh I guess it’s easier that I’m the only girl and my boy has been watching 3 older men/ boys in my home go potty so he kinda just picked it up one day still needs training but he’s getting good at it even doesn’t go poo in his pullup anymore

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20 months is very young for reliable potty training. But saying that there is nothing wrong with sitting him on the potty when he is there with you and if pees in the potty give tons of praise. Usually they will start telling you when they need to be changed as a sign of potty training.

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Mother of 5 boys here. Boys are HARD. Generally, 2 1/2 is the absolute earliest - anything earlier will be frustrating for both of you. Once he’s dry during the night, I’d start. Let him watch daddy or some male mentor.

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I tried to potty train both my boys when they were about 2 n a half. (That’s when I started with my daughter. She was definitely ready for it and seemed to be easier to train than my boys.) It took a pretty long time with the boys tho. I wanna say they were about 3 when they actually “figured it out”. Another mother had suggested using Froot Loops or Cheerios. (Give them something to “aim” at! Lol. They can still aim for them, whether they are sitting or standing. ) It actually did the trick!!! Especially using the colorful Fruit Loops!!! They thought it was fun n it seemed to take the “stress” out of it; it was something they actually “wanted” to do. I also had a little “treat” for them as well. Small tootsie rolls or similar, dum dum suckers, Starburst, stickers, tattoos, etc. Something small that they can receive when “the job is done”!!! :slight_smile:

My nephew started potty training at 18 mos so it’s definitely a possibility!!

Just watch his cues. Take him every 30-45 minutes and have him sit on or stand in front of the toilet and give him a few minutes. Sometimes it’s a hit and miss until you can figure his cues about needing to pee. If standing in front of toilet give him some cheerios to dunk (hit) and make it fun for him. Stickers small dollar toy etc rewards for him going pee in the toilet. It’s a process but if he has accidents don’t make him feel bad about it cause that can make children regress with potty training also

Let him pee off the porch

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I had to take the pull ups away

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We had a tree out back called the pee pee tree. Only special kids got to go on it. Worked for my sons and grandson.

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Any cereal that floats
You tell them to sink the boat
Also promotes aiming skills
They also have to associate the bodily feelings of having to go to the bathroom #1 and #2
So explain that also

Maybe he needs to go to Grappy’s for a few weeks?

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Honestly making my kids sit on the toilet was the only way I could get both my kids to do it just sitting on the toilet to go and big boy undies and encouragement my kids they hated the accidents so I never bought the pull up’s