Best Potty Chair for Boys

I have three boys and none of them really used the potty chair very well.... Both types of seats I used had shields to keep it in, but I found putting them on the adult toilet backwards (where they could hold on to the back of the seat) worked best. It stayed clean and the boys learned to point it down from the beginning. It worked for me! Good luck!

I didn't read the other posts but the Baby Bjorn Little Potty is nice and small. The only thing I don't like about it is that it slides on a tile/wood floor because there's no grips on the bottom. I think the next model up does have them though. For travel, Fisher Price makes a nice folding, plastic liner model that comes in a really slick travel bag.

We just started the process and have been using the bjorn which seems to work well. While my son is just 23 months - he is on the taller side and the potty design is very sturdy. No matter how he plops himself down it doesn't tip and the back is higher so he feels more secure. It is super easy to clean too - no corners for germs to get stuck in and is easy to empty.

We had bought some cute ones initially, that had lids like the real ones and were supposed to turn into step stools later... Then we tossed them in a closet and bought Baby Bjorn instead. It not only works a LOT better, but it also looked more accurately like the ones in the cartoon videos we'd gotten for our son to watch during the training process. It was a cinch to use and clean.

We've used the cheap little seats that you set on top of the potty that you an get almost anywhere (Target, Walmart, Toys R Us, etc) for around $12-$14. They have characters on them, and come with a pee pee guard which is a must. I like the one that goes on the big toilet because then when you are out in public they aren't afraid to sit on the big potty. If they are training on a little potty, then they may not want to sit on a big potty when you are out somewhere. I bought a little step stool from Ikea for my sons to use to get up to the big potty. These seats are super easy to clean. The pee pee guard stays on well, some seats I have used from Fisher Price the guard comes off every time my boy goes to sit down. Then, I have pee everywhere. Good luck!

We used a combination of the portable seat that fits on the big potty and a child's seat. Here's the funny part, my son insisted on removing the guard every time he was on the potty. He had one conversation with daddy about how to push down and not get urine everywhere, and he never had a problem. Still, I'd advise you to get one with the guard. Nothing more frustrating for both of you than to have a potty accident with urine everywhere!

I bought the Fisher-Price Royal Potty chair/stepstool. It was only 20 bucks and it's got a wee-wee guard for the pee-pee. So it's good for little boys, and that part comes off so it can be used for little girls too. It's easy to clean and it sings when they go :)
Great product for a good price !

I taught my13 month old boy by having him stand on a step stool at the regular potty. It did best when daddy and he peepeed together.

Hello All,

We used the one that went directly onto the big potty seat also. We started each of our 3 older kids with the only expectation was to sit and read together. There was no expectation given for them to go potty. They knew it was a possibility. But, OUR focus was to read. Role modeling is great. My daughter was 18 months the first time she went on the potty because she was watching her older brother. She was not potty trained until about right at 2 years though as I did not want to again cause pressure to them in training. I think the big thing to avoid is their loss of control over the situation. Another tool we used was the Once Upon a Potty Book. It is GREAT! You can be silly when you read it and there is a part that talks about "and he sat and sat and sat and sat, etc." Hope this helps!
Take Care,
M.

Definitely the bjorn potty. We use the little 9.99 one (Babies R Us is where we got it). They also have the bigger one that is $20 or $30 as I remember with the removable bucket, but the 9.99 one I like because it is SO easy to keep sanitized as it is just one piece of molded plastic...the guard is molded right into it so there is no removable guard which was a must with us because the first seat we had, the guard was not comfortable pushing into his legs and my son would rip it off to play with it which was just disgusting of course. :)
I've found in the potty trainings I've done that GENERALLY, at 2 years old the big potty is too intimidating or something as they typically choose the little potty. Somewhere in the 3 year old age, so not the real early trainers, are generally okay or good with starting right out on the big potty for training. So maybe you'd want to ask him if he wants to try on the big potty, and otherwise buy a bjorn potty for the potty training transition. The ones I've trained decided on their own when they were ready to progress from the bjorn potty to the big potty, so that transition was no big deal at all. They all liked the little bjorn potty a lot and then were just ready for the big potty when they were ready. Best wishes to you! We've just started with our 2 year old now as well and he's loving the bjorn potty so far. :)

I'd skip the potty seat. My son would just play with his and would use a stool to get over to the toilet.

The bjorn is the best for boys. The pee guard is KEY!! Don't let anyone tell you different. They will learn to push their penises down but will pee all over before then so a pee guard is a must. The bjorn cleans easily too.

We used the potty chair the goes on top of the regular toilet. My husband played a big role in potty training our son. We felt our son could relate better with his father than I on using the toilet. And the potty chair on top of the toilet was the most like using a regular toilet.

Best of Luck

We started out w/the Baby Bjorn as well. SO much nicer than the others where you have to flip up the lid, pull out the container, etc. The Bjorn container just pops right out of the top. Well worth the money. I also bought the Peter Potty for him. It's a toddler size urinal that is on a stand. He loved going in that thing!!

We used the "A Throne of Their Own" potty chair. Got it at Walmart I think. It had a higher "splash guard" than some of the others we checked out and that prevented a lot of messes outside of the potty chair. That particular chair also plays a royal-sounding trumpet chorus whenever your child goes successfully and comes with a book to read that attaches to the back. Our son liked it.

Good luck!
A.

My son is 2 1/2 now and we started out using the seat that fits on the toilet, he picked out his own character seat, Diego. However, once he saw daddy peeing standing up, he wanted to do the same so now he won't use the seat and has to pee standing up. His daddy also taught him to clean up after himself because he usually pees on the seat as well. We have a step stool that he stands on which helps. He only goes when he wants to so be patient.

Hi E.,

I have 4 boys and they never used a potty seat. If need be you could always buy a small step stool. (the dollar tree) I thought I would try the seats but it seemed like a game to them and more of a pain to me. I just taught them to use the big potty and little ones love to flush toilets. Someone else might have some help for you but I feel my way worked out really well. Everyone is different.
Good luck,
J. J.

Not that I know, because I'm not there yet, but it seems like those seats that fit into your seat would work well. Especially if he was excited to 'go where Daddy goes' on the 'big boy potty'. And they're WAY cheaper than buying a whole big potty.

Just my two cents. Good luck!

Hi E.,
I still believe the best thing is the real thing...the toliet. My husband built a sturdy stool for our toliet and I covered it with fabric and then thick plastic (for easy cleaning). The best advice to give you is to be consisitent. When he is ready, you have to be consistent. My husband was the one who potty trained all my kids (2 boys and 2 girls). He was consistent. I however, was to busy, cooking, cleaning, etc... Hope this helps. V. K.

We just used the big potty and put my sons on backwards. It worked for them. Hope this helps.

Potty chairs with boys are hard because they don't really fit on them well since they pee from the front. I had a hard time potty training my son because he took the potty chair as a joke and just played with it. We ended up just using the potty ring that you put on the real toilet. The key to our success was waiting till he was ready pushing him to do something he didn't want to do was useless. He became potty trained two months before his fourth b-day. I didn't think that it was ever gonna happen and one day he took an interest and it was really easy from then on out. We had very few accidents. My suggestion is to wait till your son shows signs of being completly ready. G. N.