Standing up or sitting down?

Gold Member Joined: Apr 29 2010 Posts: 1026

How do you teach a boy from the start? Standing or sitting? After they get the hang of sitting, do you teach standing? Most toilets are so high that standing for a three year old seems to be problematic unless you're at home with a stool.

Posted: Mon, Jan 17 2011, 5:51 pm Post subject: re: Standing up or sitting down?

Sat for about half a year. Then once watched his cousin go standing, came home and said he also wants to, and he did! Our toilets are pretty low.

Posted: Mon, Jan 17 2011, 6:10 pm Post subject:

their choice

Executive Member Joined: Mar 14 2010 Posts: 487

Sitting. And you have to remind them to put their aiver down or it will spray everywhere. I don't know when they're old enough to aim well enough to do it standing, even if reaching wasn't an issue. They could stand on a step stool but I'd be afraid of them falling. I say when they're old enough to reach. My son is 2.5 and what's to do it standing up. I let him stand over the potty seat once but it got everywhere