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Boys Potty Training, Not The Same as Girls

February 19th, 2010 |

Author: admin

When you start boy potty training, keep in mind that there will sometimes be subtle differences between that sort of training and what you might do for a girl. It isn't that the two genders are being stereotyped, because after all, most of the basic methods will be the same in either case. But potty training a boy does involve certain extra elements that usually don't appear when you're trying to train a girl. So you'll need to keep these in mind, and not expect boys and girls to be exactly alike.

With boy potty training, it may be necessary to wait a little longer to start. Girls in general just seem ready to make this change somewhat sooner than boys are. But this doesn't suggest the girls are smarter, because as well as understanding the concepts, the child needs to be both physically and emotionally prepared. For this reason, potty training readiness may come more quickly for girls, who tend to mature emotionally a little sooner than boys do. And a boy's physiology may not develop the ability to stay dry through the night as quickly as a girl's does.

But when you do finally get down to things, toilet training boys will present other challenges as well. For one thing, if you've got a boy who runs around all day, or stays in the yard and plays hard for hours at a time, he may be less likely to want to interrupt himself and head to the bathroom to go potty. When engaging in potty training boys, as opposed to that for girls, you may find yourself having to do rather more wheedling and enticing, to get your child interested.

Between materials like potty training seats, books and charts, or the floating "targets" your boy can aim at as he learns to urinate while standing up, even some of the products you use to assist you will differ between boys and girls. Boy potty training involves that extra standing-up stage, which girls won't experience, so that alone makes the training process somewhat more involved. Keeping these differences in mind and tailoring the training accordingly will help you be more effective, and will help your child learn this new skill much more readily.