How do I get my 5 year old son to start peeing standing up? How did you teach your sons to pee standing? I would like him to stand before school starts.
1/ Ping Pong ball in the toilet: encourages child to stand and improves aim ...and usually doesn't flush away. Don't buy the specially designed ones from Waitrose with smiley faces; they are about £5 for 4 and still flush occasionally. Buy a bulk pack of 12 cheap white ones from eBay for about £2 and get kid to draw own patterns on with indelible markers.
2/ When out in the woods, fields, etc, don't bother walking back to the loos, try to get him to stand against a tree ...adds an element of excitement and grown-up-ed-ness (yes, I made that word up) to the whole thing.
3/ Tick sheet. Reward him for trying. Reward him doubly for succeeding.
4/ Lead by example. Let him see you standing.
5/ Most important one! Don't worry too much about it. He won't be the only one at school who still sits and he'll get there in the end ...especially as they all get older and he sees his friends doing it.
6/ Remove toilet seat and glue sand, or marbles, or little bits of grit, or something similar to the top of the bowl. The pain and discomfort will discourage sitting. (joke - honest ! 😀 )
6/ Remove toilet seat and glue sand, or marbles, or little bits of grit, or something similar to the top of the bowl. The pain and discomfort will discourage sitting. (joke - honest ! 😀 )
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Ping pong is my fav :0) Not sure if it works or not with the boys - i just enjoy trying to sink it 🙂
I found using public toilets helped but make sure you use the urinals.
Must buy some ping pong [censored]!!
Of course we're all missing the obvious here. When they are first born, we sit there cooing over them and we think "come on ...do something ...learn something ...grow up - ooh, I can't wait" ...and we wish for them to hurry up and do normal human things:
There is the whole mobility issue. "Mr's Jones' boy was walking at three weeks. Why isn't little Johnny walking yet, he's nearly a year old. Must be retarded. Come on kid, get up and walk, you lazy ... ...did you see that, he took a step ...he did, I saw it ...just before he fell on his face and started crying ..." ...and so on ...the first crawl or [censored] shuffle, the first step, walking along holding onto furniture, the first stagger ...until "Oh for God's sake come back here now, will you. No you can't climb the stairs backwards with your eyes closed carrying the dog. Stay away from the swings. STOP, there's a car coming. Hold my hand. Hold onto the buggy. Come back, please come back. I'm begging you."
Next, we start willing them to start making noises: waiting for those first chuckles, then the babbling, then the first word, the first sentence, until ..."Jesus, don't you ever stop asking questions. Please stop, just for five minutes. No I don't want to hear what colour underpants you are wearing ...again, or that there is another fly in the garden. Please just stop talking. Please. I'm begging you."
We want them to make lots of friends and be nice wholesome social animals, watching eagerly to see when they start to interact with other children ...first acknowledging others, then the odd word, maybe starting to play a bit, making friends, having play dates and friends over for tea ...and then suddenly "No you can't invite 60 people to your birthday, just choose your best friends ...10 of them ...No, not Kyle ...Kyle's not very nice ...no I don't care, he's not your friend, he's not good enough for you and he messes about too much. No you can't stay up until midnight and get £10 a week pocket money - I don't care what your friends say they do."
You want him to wee standing up ...really ...well I hope you have thought this through ...and I hope you have water-proof ceilings ...be careful what you wish for 😀
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I think that sums up the childhood years perfectly 😀