How to teach little boys to wee inside, not around, the lavatory.

[spidermama]

I have three boys and three lavatories. I spend more time than I'd like to on my hands and knees cleaning up wee and muttering angrily to myself.

My boys are 5, 3 and 7 months.

Any tips?

draw a smiley face on a ping pong ball. put ball in toilet.
the boys have to hit the ball when they pee!

it will be too light to get flushed away

Make them sit down? Actually, that doesn't help either as they pee upwards and get it all over the seat. It is disgusting isn't it Spidermama? I have 3 boys too, aged 9, 7, and 2 and I am sorry to say they dond't get better as they get older - worse in fact!

Thinking about it, the only solution I can come up with is making them responsible for cleaning the loo everytime they misfire, but somehow, I don't think that would work. We already have arguments about who was the last to use the loo and not flush it....!

God, if I had a pound for ever time I wished I knew the answer to this question.

3 boys here too.

PING PONG BALL!

They'd just pick it out and throwing around the bathroom though.

How old are they? surely they know not to take things out of the toilet if you tell them? or are they too little?

i used to work for a family with 5 little boys and it worked a treat. youngest at the time was 3

make them clean it up

I will make them clean it up custy but I fear they're more likely to spread it around than clean it up. Especially the three year old. You're right though it's the only sustainable route.

I'll try the ping pong ball too starlover.
Someone once suggested drawing a target with eye liner for them to aim at.

LM you have three boys and a girl too then? D'you ever feel out-numbered?

The wee smell is dreadful and sometimes I feel the whole house smells of it. I wonder if visitors get it in the nostrel.

they're not in the army, surely!

No never outnumbered Spidermama, because when the boys are off doing their boys stuff, I am left with just the one dd. Imagine if there was only one boy and three dds!

This thread shouldn't just be about little boys in my opinion...

Well quite. When we see the mess our dp/dh's make of it, we can only feel dispair for our sons.

despair even

Do you really think the ping pong ball will work with dh? He resented me asking him to sit down, and refused to do it.

lol zaphod my dh refuses to accept that he ever leaves any drips. We tell ds to wipe up his messes, he's 6 1/2, and has only fairly recently started standing up on a routine basis. However, it's not just boys - I watched dd spray right across the room the other day. I didn't think it was possible, but if the angle is right...

I think this is a job for Dads (if available). If Daddy is peeing straight into the toilet (big if of course) then boy may be inspired to do the same. Starting with the classic cross-pees of course.

Smug - I've never had to use the ping pong ball - and DS1 went straight to toilet (hated the potty) - standing up.

We just taught him to "point his pee-pee down" - and he does

Only had 2 misses - both of those when I got him up to do a wee in the night and didn't help him point in time

Cross wees ericblack.
I had to ask dh what this meant. He used to indulge in a triple cross with his two brothers. All good for target training.

second the ping opng ball - have seen it - but as I only have dds can't comment on its effectiveness.

Ping pong ball ... no boy (young or old) can't resist it!

And if you don't clean it up straight away it stains brown! I have horrible brown old urine stains all over my skirting boards in the loo. Nothing will shift it.

Oh God yes Rosieposie. We bought this flat after 3 blokes had lived here. Even worse when it is the brown pee of three strange men. We replaced the toilet seat as the more you cleaned around the bits that fix it on, the more old brown stuff seemed to come out, even after a year.