Standing up to Pee

[SharonW]

My son (3 years old) prefers to pee sitting down. I am trying to persuade him to pee standing up like all the other boys in his nursery.

Any tips on how to achieve this?

P.S. I know he doesn't have to do this just because everyone else is, I genuinely believe it will be easier for him.

[Gems83]

I have a DS who is 4 years old and ever since i toilet trained him he has sat down to wee but he just started school in september and he will now stand up and use a urinal but still sits on the toilet at home!!
personally i dont see a problem with it as he grows up he will decide what he is more comfortable with. also as he grows it will become easier to stand up at the toilet!!

[hellymelly]

My husband has a friend who says " stand up for toilet cleaners rights and sit down!"so he sits down( dh,not the friend,though the friend too)I am the toilet cleaner in our house so I am glad he does,no wee all over our floor.

[Tortington]

boys should stand up. i think its immasculating to expect older boys to sit down - and men sitting down make me want to puke.

if you can't piss in a toilet aiming correctly when your older there is something wrong with your dick.

fwiw i think you are doing the right thing teachng boy to stand up.

men sittish down to piss is wrong

[Blondeshavemorefun]

tnought men only sat dow to pee if having a poo as well?

do grownmen really sit down otherwise?

[luckylady74]

Agree with Custardo, but I have no excellent reasoning - just feels wrong and my 2 boys learned to wee like that in the garden as I trained them in the summer - get a step for your bathroom if you have a high toilet!

[FairLadyRantALot]

hm...but we are talking a little boy not men...tbh...all my boys started of sitting ddown pees and then develope to go on standing uppers....but the younger 2 really will pee themselfs if trying to pee in a bush...WHY????
I think a man would normally stand up and well, they should know how to aim and older boys should, too...however, when we have sleepovers here a lot of the visiting 12 year old (that is the usual age right now), will pee onto my toilet seats and beyond or next to the loo...which makes me think that not all older boys are as housetrained as mine

[Tortington]

yes indeed pissing on the seat is rude - lift the fucking seat - MOTHERS TRAIN YOUR SONS

[Blondeshavemorefun]

and pissing on floor is also bad manners, and if carpet - it gets very smelly!!

[Tortington]

no one should have carpet n the bathroom

its wrong i tells ya

[ButtonMeUp]

Well i am obviously de-mascualting my ds1 as he prefers to pee sitting down as he has a read of his Beano at the same time. I also let him have a toy hoover and a doll when he was young. Stupid effing comment imo.

Let him pee how he is comfy. Standing up is great for when out in the woods and they are needing to go, but persoanlly i wouldnt make an issue. At school i am sure ds1 goes stanidng up too, really there are more important things to worry about. The fact that he is going in the loo and not anywhere else should be good enough!

[LittlePushka]

I know several men who in the comfort of their homes sit to wee. (Obviously no idea what they do when out, but imagine male public tolets are prohibitive to siting).

No of them are immasculated! What a very odd thing to imagine of a little boy?

Agree with Buttonmeup here...if the lad likes to sit then let him sit!

[nooka]

alicet has your son not seen his dad pee? ds has seen dh pee (standing) many many times, and still sits. He just prefers it.

[Tortington]

i said older boys didn't i? READ

[nooka]

Who is expecting older boys to sit down? I have never instructed my ds either way, but I am quite happy for him to sit. He is too little at nine to worry about emasculation. Are you talking teenagers here custy?

[TheGoddessBlossom]

mine stand. I wish they could just learn to get the wee in the bloody toilet, as I am SICK of sitting in wee, tracking through wee in my bare feet, cleaning up wee. Mind you, DH hasn't mastered it in 38 years so what are the odds?

[FairLadyRantALot]

Goddes...maybe you should instruct your dh and any boy old enough to do so, to clean up after them, that might teach them....

Custy, I agree with the carpet comment...I think having carpets is a very brittish thing....I don't think in Germany I have ever come across carpets in bathrooms and in Cyprus there were hardly any carpets full stop, lol... in Germany we use those bathroom mats, so, that you don't get cold feet, but they are so easy to sling in the washing machine it's no issue of becoming smelly....

Also, custy, the OP was about a 3 year old boy and the mum worrying about how to....personally I think that boys will automatically stand up once they go to school anywya, so, there is nothing to worry about....it's part of the natural development, I think...

[ethanchristopher]

custy, bit uncalled for dont you think?

i dont think that a man is, what, gay? if he chooses to sit down

its his personal choice, would you like to be told your a man if you choose to stand and straddle? (assuming your a woman not a man)

[notsoteenagemum]

DS is just four and sits, I asked him the other day what he does in school and he said he stands because there is always wee on the seat, I asked why he didn't wipe it off and he said when he did that once he got told off for messing about.
Had a new boy in playgroup plus who tried to sit on the urinal when he saw thats what the others used.

[DrHorrible]

DS sits in some places, stands in others. mainly down to the toilet - at Psycho's house he can't shuffle back far enough so it tends to shoot out under the seat if he sits, our house he is fine. Nursery he likes the novelty aspect of standing and weeing between that split seat bit.

Taught through necessity - he wouldn't wee in public (well, not PUBLIC, but out, no toilet, and wouldn't wee by our car), so got him to wee in a bottle - it seemed to spur on the standing thing. Now he will only wee when out, in a bottle

[elmoandella]

i refused to show ds how to do it standing up as too messy. however he has taught himself anyway. much to my joy we get it everywhere.

it all started with peeing in the potty standing up. and progressed to standing on tip toes to wee in loo till we got step.

FWIW all the males in my house when i was growing up did pee sitting down. tiswas the rule to maintain piss free floors

[elmoandella]

custardo totally disagree with immasculating. if you'd seen the large strapping male specimens of my family and dp who all pee sitting down. there is absolutly girlie about a grown man in the "thinker" position they adopt when doing anything on the loo.

even a pee requires a 5 min read of any literature floating about the loo.

[Tortington]

ethanchristopher - i never said gay!!! but if thats what you equate with immasculation - then i think it says more about you , personally i know of lots of maculine gay men....

elmo - i guess we will have to disagree, lovely we can do that.