Montessori and Potty Training Boys


Toddler boy sitting on adult potty, with title of post on it.

My son E. is 26 months old and has been wearing underwear for about a week during the day (cloth diapers at night). For the first day or two, he'd make it to the potty about half the time... But after those first few days, any suggestion of the potty upset him very much. So, I stopped mentioning the potty, thinking he was still learning about his body... The past few days he has not attempted to go to the potty at all, just has accidents all day. Should I be doing something else? If so, what? Should I try to get him to help clean up? If so, how? Have I missed his window of opportunity?

Oh! The joys of potty training! Boys? Oh boy! Boys (when they potty train or potty learn) act just as you described! They are fickle! What to do? Keep reading at my NEW blog!

Lisa Nolan's son and his buddy sitting at a table when they were in preschool


Toddler boy sitting on adult potty

Top and Bottom photo credit: desertrice / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND
Second photo by Lisa Nolan