Potty Training a Little Boy

The Peter Potty is the first toddler urinal. I can start my son off right by teaching him to stand from the very beginning. He can be a big boy and go to the potty standing just like Daddy.

I also have a 6 year old daughter that has to share a bathroom with my son. The Peter Potty is going to be great for her because she won't have to accidentally sit in mess if my son happens to miss the toilet. He has his own urinal!

The Peter Potty will make it easier on me as well. If I were to teach him to use the toilet from the start we would have to use a stepping stool. With my son being so young he might miss trying to keep his balance then there would be a mess all over the toilet and floor for me to clean up. The Peter Potty will adjust to my son's height so we won't have to worry with a stool.

I have never had to potty train a little boy before. In fact I have never really been around boys before. Growing up most of my cousins where girls, I have only 1 sibling, my sister, and most of my friends had little girls. So this will be a learning experience for us all. I hear little boys are harder to train than little girls.

My daughter was potty trained before she turned 2. That is what I am going to try to shoot for with my son, but I know that boys are different than girls and each child is different. If it happens to take a little longer than what I thought I know it will be ok. He won't go to kindergarten still in diapers.

After putting together the Peter Potty I was going to dedicate the whole next day to potty training. A tip that I had heard before was to take the child to the restroom every 30 min. I set my alarm to go off every 30 min. just in case I got busy and forgot. The whole day (going to the bathroom every 30min.) he did not one time go in the potty even though he loved it every time I said "It's potty time." That just meant it was time to play with the new toy.

The Peter Potty has a tank that you fill with water and set it on top of the urinal. When the little boy is done you press a button on the tank and it rinses everything into a tray held in the bottom. My son thought it was great. He kept on pressing the button to make the water come. He was to busy playing to actually use it.

My "potty training" weekend is over and I have to go back to work. I guess you could say that over the "potty training" weekend my son went to the potty 1 time and spent the rest of the time getting familiar with it.

My husband's grandmother watches my son during the week while we work. She will continue to work with him on potty training. The only difference there is that she does not have a Peter Potty, but she does have a WeeMan Potty Training Urinal.

What makes the WeeMan Potty Training Urinal different from the Peter Potty is that the WeeMan Potty clips to the toilet. It hangs low enough for little boys and then flips over to empty into the toilet.

If you are using the toilet to potty train a little boy make it fun! Add some targets to the water for them to try to aim at. Just make sure that the targets are safe to be flushed. You don't want to be sticking you hand in the toilet to get the targets after they have been used.

Some people have said that they use cereal like Cheerio's. Or you can buy toilet targets like in the picture, that are made from non-toxic biodegradable tissue paper. Using a target for them to aim at will help promote toilet training and will give him practice at ringing the toilet.

When I was potty training my daughter I preferred to training pants instead of Pull-Ups. When my daughter wet in a Pull-Up, she didn't care. It was like wearing a diaper to her. So I put her in training pants. Then she could feel it when she got wet and she did not like it. That taught her to go to the potty instead of in her pants.

If your child is in daycare they will probably say to keep them in Pull-Ups because it's easier for them to clean up. I was fortunate enough to have my family watch my children so never had to put them in daycare.

With my son I am going to skip the Pull-Ups and just use the training pants. It will also save on money. I won't have to buy Pull-Ups like I buy diapers. If an accident happens in the training pants I can wash them and reuse them.

Brandy Taylor