What age did your little boy stand up to wee?

[Opalfeet]

Just that really. He's 3 and a bit. Nursery asked if he stood up to wee. I thought boys that age all sat down. If he stands on his step, he'll barely be big enough to get his penis over the toilet. 🤷‍♀️
Please share with me the age at which your littlies managed it.

[Chelyanne]

Let him do it when he's comfortable doing it, no age to aim for.

I clean the loo a lot because our 10 year old boy pees on the seat, really annoying when I'm desperate and don't notice it before sitting down.

[Maray1967]

I think DS1 was about 5 or 6, but DS2 always sits (13) and there’s a lot less mess.

[xprincessxjanetx]

My 4 year old DS sits down. My 10 year old DS stands up but I can't for the life of me remember when he did but it was definitely not at age 3! I would guess around 5/6?

[Oldandcobwebby]

I'm 57 and I started sitting to wee about 5 years ago. It's far better. You can't miss, and it gives you a chance to ponder on things.

[Sarahplane]

I think mine was about 6 or 7.

[97thousand1hundredand4]

4 year old has only ever sat. His dad also always sits, so he's never really seen different.

[selflove]

Single mum of a 5year old boy. This has never occurred to me before, I only taught sitting down, and standing never occurred to me, so I asked him! He says he does stand up wees at school because everyone does, but sit down wees at home because it's comfier!

[soughsigh]

I followed the oh crap method of potty training and she suggests that little boys sit down till they're tall enough to reach without standing on a step - seems sensible to me. I'll certainly not be encouraging him to stand anyway!

[Missreginafalange]

Mine was 2, not long after he potty trained he saw his brother standing for a wee and never sat again

[HoppingPavlova]

Mine never sat down, stood up from the beginning of toilet training. You put something in the toilet for them to aim at. From memory I think we used stuff like a ping pong ball with a face drawn on it or something. I remember it didn’t flush away but popped back up, think it was ping pong balls but may have been some special toilet training ball? Toddlers watch patents go to the toilet (ours always hated closed doors), and boys seem to want to do it like dad?

[Frymetothemoon]

@Temp023

Why would you teach them to stand up? They just piss all over the floor, keep them sitting down.. ( never understood this one.. bleugh!)

Yep, so pleased that DH sits to pee. I can always tell when there's been another man in the house (yuk!)
Have heard it's better for the prostate too

[Blugh]

I read somewhere that small children should be encouraged to sit, as then boys more likely to realise they might need to poop also. Otherwise they can get into habit of quickly weeing standing and can get constipated as don’t always have the urge to just go? of quickly weeing standing and can get constipated as don’t always have the urge to just go?

That’s really interesting and actually makes a lot of sense !

[MayflowerMaisie]

DS 10 sits at home, no idea what he does when out.

[Caspianberg]

I read somewhere that small children should be encouraged to sit, as then boys more likely to realise they might need to poop also. Otherwise they can get into habit of quickly weeing standing and can get constipated as don’t always have the urge to just go?
No idea If that’s factual, but I think I’m will be teaching Ds to sit if possible.

[CoalCraft]

Is it something they have to learn? DH almost always sits. Tells me it's more comfortable.

I online have a DD though so can't say I've given it much thought!

[Halloweenrainbow]

Still very messy at 4.5. I get him to sit when out because I don’t fancy being on my hands and knees mopping up a puddle in a public toilet.

[KarenW]

Husband 51, boys 21 and 18, all sit down. Only pee standing if in a public loo. They have had to clean bathrooms from an early age so figured that the target practice was not worth the clean up. Urinals are higher than a home loo, so less messy. Sorry, no help for the littlies tho!.

[user64325]

I was adamant mine would sit but he was having none of it and insisting on standing before 3. This was annoying for public toilets because I'd have to hold him up, or he'd stand on my shoes. He somehow doesn't hold it, and never misses or gets it on the seat tbf .

[ofwarren]

I've 3 boys and they all stood from the start. I never thought to get them to sit 🤷

[PitchImperfect]

9yo has never done a stand-up wee in the toilet afaik. 7yo will do it any time he's left alone in the bathroom, then I walk in & find the puddle. He lacks any sort of coordination, is quite short & never remembers to lift the seat. DH & I have had many conversations about the relative merits of standing vs sitting. DH insists they need to know how to do it, I'm unconvinced. Men's toilets have cubicles that could be used instead of urinals & neither of them have ever had a problem doing outside wees when necessary. Part of my job involves cleaning toilets so I might be a bit biased, having seen how some adult men still haven't mastered the use of urinals. Why can't they all just sit on toilets like women do & stop leaving puddles for me to mop?!

[Thesearmsofmine]

10 year old stands, 8 year old sits at home but can stand and use urinals if our., 5 year old always sits. Tbh I just let them wee however they want as long as it goes where it is meant to go!

[OverTheRubicon]

My boys stand up out of the house but sit down inside, can't face the mess.

[Opalfeet]

On, not in.