I'm Peeing Standing Up-what Age Did Your Son(s) Stand and Pee?

Mine's training now and he's almost 4... he sat twice and that's it. He pees standing up because he sees daddy doing that..

My son will be 10 next week. At home, he always sits to pee. Outside the home he always stands. My husband also sits to pee at home and stands outside the home. This is something my husband has always done and I am sooooo grateful.

I suppose I don't see the point to having an 11 year old sit to pee...

Do your friend's kids have a dad or a male role model?

Men pee standing. The boys need practice.

My son doesn't stand and pee. He sits. He's 16. Actually, my husband rarely stands, too, at home. And I'm super happy about it. You know how much cleaner the area around my toilet is because of this?

Men are fully able to sit to pee. They stand for THEIR own convenience (and culturally, they've been taught that "men pee standing up"). As the housecleaner in the family, I'm thankful my men can help me out in this small way.

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Does your friend's 11 year old son, still sit to pee and does so wherever he is even not only at home?

I guess, having the boys sit to pee, it reduces the amount of stray pee sprays/dribbles from getting everywhere on the bathroom floor if the boy can't aim straight in, the toilet?
Is that her reason that she has all her boys sit to pee?

My boys potty trained when they were three. They probably sat down for the first month or so before they practiced standing. We do a lot of camping and hiking, so standing to pee is a very useful skill.

My boys have very good aim and do not make a mess when they use the toilet. Some of their friends are not so skilled in the bathroom, and I feel like asking those to sit to pee when they come to visit because I do not like wiping their pee off of everything.

22 months. Decided he was going to go like my friends sin who was a bit older. Trained himself for the most part.

3! Mine never sat to pee.

My son potty trained the week he turned 3. He sat to pee for about six months and started standing around 3.5 years.

Around 4. And I taught him sitting down. He just chose to start standing up like dad!

As soon as they're tall enough to do it, or to use a stool without being afraid of falling.

He began (like you mentioned) sitting... but eventually transitioned to standing, when pottying was not something "new" to him... so around 32 months or so. It was a few months before he turned 3, I know for sure, b/c he dropped the seat on himself and I had to take him (while extremely! pregnant) to the ER to get checked out.

Word of warning (not just for you, but all moms of boys): If your son's "parts" are not several inches taller than the edge of the toilet bowl, make him use a step stool if he stands to pee. I can't tell you how many other parents have shared the same type story with me, that it happened to their son, too. The boys get in a hurry, go running into the bathroom, yank their pants down and fling to seat up.... out comes their thing and BAM-down SLAMS! the toilet seat. It can actually do vascular damage, not to mention it hurts like a MF#$*#@**
Trying to hold a naked, bawling almost 3 year old when you are 9 months pregnant is a bit ... awkward. And trying to strap them into a car seat with that sort of injury is NOT something you want to find yourself doing.

Have them use a step stool. Just do it.

The only way I could get my little boy to potty train was teaching him to pee standing up - with the little Cheerios in the bowl so he could aim. That was the easy part at 3... "Just like Daddy!" He would say proudly. Getting him to poop in the potty was a whole separate issue and took much longer!

my boys (sons and brothers) ALL stood to pee, right from the gitgo.
i don't get making boys sit to pee.
khairete
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I teach the boys sitting in my daycare then after they are proficient in that for about 4 months then I show them to do it standing up. I bought a urinal (Peter Potty on Amazon, but I got mine at a garage sale) for that reason. My husband does not stand to pee out of courtesy to me.

If I have a boy that won't put down the lid I have resorted to duct taping the ring to the bowl so they can't raise that part.

Only when toilet training did my son start off sitting on the potty and toilet (18mths) and only because at that age sometimes both things happen at once and they arent overly aware of whats going to come out!

I never considered getting him to wee sitting down though once he was toilet trained. Men are supposed to wee standing up so it sprays everywhere and makes a huge mess arent they?!?!?!!

I can't really remember an age and they are too old now for my involvement.

That said, I did I recently threaten to start enforcing the sit-down pee for all men in this house; including their dad. I've found pee on the toilet seat and floor one too many times that no one will confess to doing. :-p

My son only does that in the public bathrooms. If it has a stall door, he won't.

He's nine, and well, it just makes sense to him this way.

I've had my friends boys and husbands try to explain it all(single Mom here), and he decided on his own how he wanted to accomplish this, and I back him up(much to the dismay of certain friends).

I've had teachers try to discourage it when he was in Kindergarten, and I told them to only lay out facts, and not scare tactics, and he made his own choice.

Just my 2cp.

Good luck to you Mama!