When to start toileting
How to potty train a boy - Ask a Doc | Cook Children's
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I'd like to talk to you about potty
training which is a problem with most
parents and the common question we
doctors get boys tend to train later
they mature later they talk at a later
age so they're frequently three three
and a half before they're potty-trained
there's exceptions to this some of our
later but boys are not harder to train
they just they come later also boys
you start off sitting down and a little
tiny potty chair that's on the floor and
it has a little bit of cup in the front
to catch the urine because of the
genitals pointing up or in that
direction they will eventually get to be
where they can stand and at the potty
and urinate and get a little stool for
them to stand on in front of the big
body it's usually occurs around 18
months to as much as three or four years
of age but we all get potty trained some
day it's not really as important it's
working on other things such as
vocabulary and language it seems like we
get in the pressure from from relatives
or friends and say oh you should have
them potty trained at certain age but
they you have to have that neurologic
control to be able to do this they have
to say it since that hey I've got a full
bladder or rectum and I'm about to go
and they also have to want to if they
don't want to good luck you're not gonna
force that so wait till they're giving
you those signals pee pee pee pee you
set them on the potting they go and they
do this every day for a week it's really
not hard you'll see some books that says
potty training in three days but they
also tell you to wait till they give you
those signals and they're actually ready
but if they're showing a lot of
resistance they you can tell they need
to go they go hide in the corner and
squat and try to use the bowel movements
they know they need to go they just
don't want to sit on the potty then you
can use rewards a couple of points
though of they it has to be used up if
you give them a matchbox car for going
on the potty
then I don't have to go on the potty
again so parents use treats you eat blow
bubbles play on the iPhone something
that's used up number two has got to be
what they cry they really important for
them
number three it's got to be somebody
else has got to be getting it if it's
sitting on the Shelf it's not gonna
apply pressure so everybody in the
family or better yet friends who come
over and spend the day and they go to
the bathroom they get the treat in the
child be crying for that treat you say
no you got a peepee on the potty to get
that treat but if that doesn't help and
they're resistant just wait because the
harder you push the worse it is
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