What is the best potty seat for a boy?

[Slippy]

Like a few PPs

lol

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

DS20 was potty trained at 1 1/2 and DD18 at 3. He didn't use a potty chair. I let him "water flowers" outside and then we moved to standing on a stool to use the toilet. He was soooo easy and DD was sooo NOT!!

Uh........ that's disgusting.

 

[bumbershoot]

DS wouldn't touch the toilet. He showed signs of readiness at around 18 months, by making it very obvious at night when he needed to pee. So I'd put him on the Baby Bjorn potty that I put next to the bed, he'd pee at night, and sleep the rest of the night, which was LOVELY.

Once he was dry at night (with my help in waking up when he'd do the pee-squirm), we slowly started during the day. I had the Baby Bjorn Little Potty, 2 of them. One in the bedroom, one in the living room because he REFUSED to go in the bathroom off the living room, and there was no way I was taking him upstairs to the big bathroom every time he needed to pee.

My friends thought I was nuts!

But it worked. Did the final wash and dry of the cloth dipes a year later.

And later, when he got taller and more interested in what DH was doing, he started peeing standing up, and he does that just fine.


With the BBLP you do have to hold his bits down, to make sure it wasn't going to hit the ceiling. Though that might be specific to your own kid and what his bits do when he has to pee, LOL. If we have another child and it's a boy, I might get the non "little potty" and get the bigger one, because it has more of a guard in the front.


Anyway, just follow his lead, don't judge things based on what other kids do at what ages...he'll do what he does when he's ready! Just have things available to him when he's ready!

 

[Mickey527]

I had this one for my grandson and he used it from training till age 4 when he could climb on the toilet himself.
http://www.amazon.com/Mommys-Helper...e=UTF8&s=baby-products&qid=1266108054&sr=8-24
I think the fact that it had a place for him to put his legs and he didn't dangle made himmore comfortable with the whole training.

 

[leslie@dvcstore]

Good to know! i have a 2 year now that i am trying to potty train! just trying to take day by day!

 

[DMickey28]

Well my DS is going to be 3 in April and we have had the Baby Bjorn Potty (not the one piece) and a Fisher Price Froggy one he picked out since he was 18 months old. At first he would go on them ... before tubby, before bed ... NADA since before Christmas. He has ZERO interest.

I am thinking of moving away from that and onto the big potty now. He is a big kid so size isn't a problem.

He knows when he goes but he is pretty selective on if he wants to sit in a wet diaper or not. I know when he goes Poopy ... he hides behind the couch. Then you ask him and you get the fastes NO with a grin ... sometimes he will say NO, Georgie did ... He blames Georgie for things.

 

[We_love_WDW]

I think I'm going to go with the Baby Bjorn seat that goes on the toliet and the step stool. I trained my DD on the toliet with a seat that you put on top but I know that specific seat would not work for a boy - I would have a big mess to clean. So I'm going to look for the seat and stool this weekend if not I'll order it online - here we go!!!

 

[tzolkin]

I had the Baby Bjorn Little Potty, 2 of them. One in the bedroom, one in the living room because he REFUSED to go in the bathroom off the living room, and there was no way I was taking him upstairs to the big bathroom every time he needed to pee.

My friends thought I was nuts!



With the BBLP you do have to hold his bits down, to make sure it wasn't going to hit the ceiling. Though that might be specific to your own kid and what his bits do when he has to pee, LOL. If we have another child and it's a boy, I might get the non "little potty" and get the bigger one, because it has more of a guard in the front.

We have the bigger Baby Bjorn one and I loved it.
It was the only one that was large enough and had a high enough front for DS. It's also very easy to clean.



DS was diaper free at the same age and with the same amount of effort as both my DDs.

All three of my kids have potty trained in about 3 days by having the little potty in the living room. They and I stay in the living room and kitchen the whole time. They way they all trained it wouldn't have worked as well to keep trying to run them to the regular toilet. Part of the point was that they could sit on the potty and read or watch TV.

We didn't have any problems using a potty chair instead of a toilet to learn. Even within the first week DS had no issue peeing on a regular toilet when we left our house. And he transitioned to peeing on the regular toilet at home easily. (He would only poop on his potty for months, but he also sat there for 30 mins. each time. We moved the little potty to the bathroom, but he prefered sitting it.)

Fortunately, none of my kids peed at night (even as infants they woke up with dry diapers in the morning). They never wore pull-ups and we never had any bed wetting accidents-- many standing in front of the toilet in the bathroom, but none in the beds. My sister is struggling with this with her 3yo because the pull-ups are almost too small (she wears the same size as my 6yo) and she still wets through.

 

[tzolkin]

I think I'm going to go with the Baby Bjorn seat that goes on the toliet and the step stool. I trained my DD on the toliet with a seat that you put on top but I know that specific seat would not work for a boy - I would have a big mess to clean. So I'm going to look for the seat and stool this weekend if not I'll order it online - here we go!!!

We bought the BBjorn seat that goes on the toilet before we bought the larger BBjorn potty. The pee shield seems like it would work the best, but I had to pick up my DS and put him onto the potty. He could not get far enough back on the seat even with a stool without getting himself caught up on the pee shield.

It will work if you don't want to use a separate potty, but you will probably have to assist him getting on and off the toilet.

 

[puffkin]

We used the baby bjorn potty seat that goes on the toilet. I had another one for traveling but he hated it because it was kind of flimsy. The Bjorn did not budge! He mainly used that for #2 and just stood at the potty for #1. He is tall so he didn't need a step stool. He completely trained at 2.5 years old.

 

[Disneycrazy!!]

DS20 was potty trained at 1 1/2 and DD18 at 3. He didn't use a potty chair. I let him "water flowers" outside and then we moved to standing on a stool to use the toilet. He was soooo easy and DD was sooo NOT!!

LOL Well my son who just turned 4 yesterday, tried to pee in the parking lot at a car dealers today. My husband and I both were screaming NOOOOO!!! OMG get him quick, run to the potty!! I would have died right there on the spot if he would have peed on a new car!!!

 

[Sleepy]

My dad built my son a wooden box to stand on so that he could reach the toilet like the adults. We also bought him one of those toilet seat inserts. Worked just fine and that was 16 years ago. Oh, and we did the cheerio trick for aiming.