Not up to toilet training yet but dont want to make him scared of the toilet...

[Kazbah]

Definately put a potty in there.

One thing that might make you smile is that DS has been playing with his toilet seats too, well, until yesterday when he dropped it on his bits. Now he's stopped cold turkey ...

[farmgirl77]

Ok - so next stupid question - a potty for boys?????? Tex is short but I was still thinking just steps up to the big toilet???? DH and I gave each other blank looks at this - how do you potty train a boy???

LOL about bottoms and hands - we had our 18mth maternal health check up today and no one told me they quiz him on how many body parts he knows - this week I'll have to teach him bottoms and hands...

Kazbah - you made me LOL and DH cry (well nearly)

FabFiona - Tex is facinated by toilet paper - is not yet putting everything down in the toilet but I'm sure that is coming...pity we have a septic...and yep, given that I take him into the bird aviaries, who knows what he is putting in his mouth

Thanks everyone for the advice.
FG

[Daffodil Mumma]

My DS is curious about the toilet and watching us too......we just got in the habit of washing his hands everytime we washed ours and now he expects to wash his hands even if he didnt touch the seat.....hearing the loo flush means wash hands to him lol. He has the toilet paper fascination too but thinks its tissue so he wipes his nose and puts it in the bin lol

As for potty for boys.......I have no advice what so ever sorry....in fact I will be coming back to read others responses DS is our first and other than pingpong ball to aim at in the grown up loo I am completely clueless!!! I bought a potty but am now wondering if those step thingys would be better!!!

[sangie]

My DS is 17months and completely obsessed with the toilet too. His favourite thing to do is to stuff it with toilet paper. Also lost a bottle of shampoo and his sisters hair clips!

I tried putting a potty in there but he's much more interested in the toilet of course! I just keep re-inforcing that we don't touch or throw things in but we can sit on it, hopefully it sinks in soon before we lose too many more things to the loo!

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

DS was similar at about a year and a half. We just wash hands after going to the loo. Given how clean we keep the bathroom, the loo seat is safer than the front door handle, germ-wise! (I recall reading that it's more hygienic to eat off the loo than from a kitchen bench, as we're far more fastidious as a species about cleaning our loos.)

I just talked to him about what I was doing and he just trained himself through watching me and his friends. OK, so he was three and a half before he decided he wanted to go to the loo (just one month earlier he would sit on the potty for 3-4 hours, then ask me for a nappy so he could wee). He is four next week and has just decided he wants to poo on the loo. He does know his own mind! But explaining that pets and loos mean washing hands afterwards cannot start early enough, IMO. FWIW, he never liked using the potty. Always had to be the loo, and without the childseat if possible. I guess I could have saved myself some money there!