Experiences of boys and waiting till 2.5 and going straight to the toilet with no potty

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His Mum who is very down to earth said they went away and it took 3 days. He started with pants from nappy (without pull ups). I have heard positive things about straight to pants and waiting until they are ready, particularly with boys. Aparently he started pulling his own trousers up and down for dressing.

What surprised me was that he went straight to the toilet (with booster seat) and had no potty.

What I'd be interested to know is whether people have found waiting with boys until 2.5 has helped?.

And who has gone straight to using the toilet? And why? Is it just a case of if they never get the potty as an option they just learn the toilet quicker?

I am pg with #2 and would either have to train at ds first birthday (August) or wait until the baby dust has settled down, November time where he'd be 2 & 3 months but the weather wouldn't be as good.

My other challenge is he gets really bad nappy rash and is close to growing out of the only brand I fund that worked (having already grown out of washables)

Thanks in advance

We waited until 3.5 (his choice, not ours) and potty/toilet training took two days. We did start with the potty, because he had a fear of the toilet after he'd fallen off sideways during an earlier failed potty training attempt. A few weeks on and he is now happily taking himself to the potty/toilet whenever he needs to go.

I'm not sure whether they have a potty makes much difference as to when they learn to use the toilet. I think it's more to do with the relative size difference between them and the toilet, and gaining confidence to use a stepstool to get on there themselves.

There's not much difference between potty and toilet in terms of how easy it is for the parent. I would want DS to be happy to use a potty for the added flexibility when we're out and about, although he is even happy to be held over an adult toilet now.

I would always recommend waiting until they are physically ready to be out of nappies. And that means being able to wait more than a few seconds between feeling the urge and having to go. I can't tell you how much easier that makes things when you're out and about.

my DS2 decided (on his own, no input from me what so ever) that just 1wk after his 2nd birthday he was going to wear pants and that was that.....no more nappies.

oh, and he was going on the toilet too, standing up (which caused issues with him being teeny tiny......a step was invaluable), and potties were for babies!

he was fab

but then, I am a great believer in letting them state when they are ready....I have done with all of mine (bar DS1, and he proved why you should never push as he took forever to train) and they all were done within 1wk, 2days in the case of DD1, and pretty much went on the loo from day one too, altho DD1 did have to use a seat as she fell in and scared herself.

the only time a potty was used was when out, and I had a travel potty for emergancies when caught short near no toilet facilities.

good luck......and let him take the lead

Ds1 was out of nappies at 3y2m. It took about 48 hours for him to be completely dry and clean. Didn't use the potty, went straight to a toilet.

DS2 was exactly the same (straight to toilet, no potty) but at age 2y9m

I placed a couple of table tennis balls in the loo and got dad to demonstrate how fun it is to make the balls move round the toilet bowl. The table tennis balls don't go down the loo when it is flushed and will pop back up. I cleaned them at the end of the day in bleach and they were needed for about a week by which time DS was dry.

I haven't read all the thread - so apologies in advance if this is now an unnecessary post.

many do not believe me when I tell them about DSs 'potty' training.

DS was 18 months when I first introduced him to a potty. This was because at this point he was aware of when he had wet his nappy, so I thought I's start correlating wet and potty iyswim. For a week we worked on it. Then he suddenly got scared of the potty and would scream if I tried to put him on it.

Then 2 months shy of his 2nd birthday I got a child seat for the toilet as he seemed interested in watching adults use the toilet. Within a week he was dry during the day as long as we were near a toilet to get there quick.

By 2.5 he was able to do a 6 hour car journey to Cornwall dry.

At 2.7 he was dry at night. Only ever had an accident in bed twice. Stopped using nappies at size 4.

Oh - just read thread now and my DS seems among the norm, so no idea why ppl in RL don't believe me