Boys and babydolls

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Boys and babydolls
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Mon, 08-21-2006 - 11:24am
What do y'all think of boys and babydolls. I bought my son, now 15 months, but when I bought the cabbage patch doll he was about 8 months. I was wondering if I allow my son to play with a boy cabbage patch doll if it's wrong. I mean he likes to twirl it's hair while he's going to sleep. He prefers his big tonka firetruck over his cabbage patch doll and it never leaves his crib, but will I make my son a sissy if I let him play with it. I dont think there is anyting wrong with it. I mean he's only 15 months and it doesn't go stay the night with him anywhere else and half the time he throws it out his crib, but guys think I am crazy for allowing my son to play with it. They say I'm gonna turn him gay, sorry for the expression but that's what I get from most guys on the subject.
Also how do you potty train a boy? I know put cheerios or goldfish int he toilet and tell them to hit the targets, or so I've been told, but seriously do I make them stand at the toilet until they pee or what? Girls you can sit on the toilet until they pee and then clap but are boys the same way. I know they sell training toilets with pee guards but how do you get them to stand and pee.
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Mon, 08-21-2006 - 11:34am

My son is ALL BOY, and he had a baby doll, that used to be my little brothers, when he was younger.

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Mon, 08-21-2006 - 8:58pm

Playing with dolls is fine, no worries about it- and any guy that has a problem with it, just ignore them.


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Mon, 08-21-2006 - 9:05pm

OK my son is 15 and if he see's me posting this he will kill me.

I potty trained him to sit on toilets and to only stand and pee at urinals or outdoors.

My dad has had some bladder problems in the past and the urologist told us it is better for men to sit to go as their bladders don't empty fully when they stand.

So he sits on toilets, I trained him to stand while camping and I also had my dad help out with that one. He took him outside on their 80 acres after he learned to know when he had to go. His favorite time was when there was snow on the ground and grandpa taught him to spell his name.

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Mon, 08-21-2006 - 10:09pm
My son had a cabbage patch doll- it's probably still around, and he's definitely all boy. in fact, he's got his first crush, so no worries about me turning him gay by letting him play with "Shelba". He also had a bear named "Bo" that he wouldn't go anywhere without for a while. That was annoying!
I also sat him to potty train,as he was too short to reach the toilet when he was potty training. I potty trained him before he was 1, and he was way too easy. Actually, as soon as he started walking, he was potty trained- and it took less than a week. It's sick, I know. He started standing when was tall enough to reach.

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Tue, 08-22-2006 - 9:49am

Thanks yall. My son is all boy the cabbage patch doll " Augustus " looks just like him, thats the reason I bought it. I wont be taking it from him anytime soon, as I see he wont turn sissy from it, thanks.

As for potty training, well James Wyatt still doesn't walk, he'll take 3 steps, thats the furthest we've gotten him to walk. After that he gets scared and sits. I feel better knowing he is trying though. One morning he's gonna wake up and be running then I'm gonna be like omigosh, crawl please!! LOL.

He's getting too big for me to carry. When he was 8 months old he only weighed 13 lbs, was in the - 10th percentile for height weight and - 25 percentile for head circumference, didn't know their were negative percentiles until I had him. but he had failure to thrive due to his acid reflux and now at 15 months he is about 24 lbs. he sure did catch up. He was 9 lbs. 5 oz. when he was born and 8 lbs. when he was 2 weeks old, so he was big starting out then lost weight and then didn't gain weight so he's had a rough start, so we'll wait until he walks to potty train, couldn't imagine him crawling to the toilet climbing on, going to the bathroom and crawling off, LOL.

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Tue, 08-22-2006 - 3:33pm
I had my Step-son at my folks house over the weekend and he was playing with a doll in a stroller. My mom has grand daughter's too and my step-son is in a house with all boys - no girl toys. My mom claims boy's playing with dolls teaches them compassion and to be a good parent. My step son is only 2 1/2 but knew to give the baby-doll the bottle and rocked him.
As for potty training, my DS was 2 1/2 when he was trained and when he was ready it was super easy. I assume you live in FL also from your name, i'd wait till next summer to train him. Just send him outside with regular underwear on. He'll catch on pretty quick when it runs down his leg.
We've started training my Step-son, though we only have him every weekend. He's not conpletely ready but will poop on the potty and goes right after he wakes up and before he takes a bath. He knows what to do on the potty. he just doesn't understand the feeling before he pees. It will come with time and training.
good luck
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Tue, 08-22-2006 - 10:49pm
Yes I'm hot hot sunny Florida. That's a good idea undies and if he pees he's a boy, maybe a little pool will teach him. Never mind, I just thought about that and realized if he was in a pool peeing in it, eewwwwww!!!! Ok, anyways, I could let him run naked and free in the house when the girls are at schoool, LOL assuming he walks one day, ha ha. We're learning sign language now, so... we're holding off potty training, teach sign language whihc is good because i can teach my babydoll loving son, LOL, that his babydoll is a boy, with sign language.
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Thu, 08-24-2006 - 12:26am

OK, maybe I'm totally behind on the board. Do you have a child with learning dissabilities or a hearing problem????

If so you need to really let him take the lead with potty training. My 15 yr old has some dissabilities and I was told to get communication and gross motor functions under his belt before going for those major milestones you see in normal child development.

I wasn't even able to nurse "T "as he couldn't stand to be held for any length of time. He did walk at 7 months as he spent so much time in a walker we thought he developed those leg muscles faster than normal and was just tired of being confined. He also was on a horse with me at 6 weeks because we found he liked the rocking motion so much he would smile.

Potty training at 15 months is early as far as I can find in any normal situation. If your DS can't tell you what he is feeling or even walking, potty training is the last thing you need to worry about.

Just love him and give him the stability to make those other milestones that lead to potty training.

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Thu, 08-24-2006 - 12:58am

Nicolas wasn't ready at 15 months to potty training, but he was at 3.5 and it didn't take long at that point.


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Fri, 08-25-2006 - 10:29am
No. he doesn't have a hearing problem. I am teaching his sister's so that they have a foreign language to fall back on, and it is considered a foreign language. He is just getting taught as well. He already is talking a great deal. He just wont walk. He says mama, more, milk, dada, get, hi, bye, I love you, and he says a lot more than that. He can already tell me what he wants but the sign language is an extra curricular activity for us to do as a family. He right now looks at me like I'm crazy but my older daughters are picking it up quick, and it's something I've always wanted to do myself, and when I started having kids I always wanted to teach them as well. We are starting with basics learning together, like grass, flower, bath, milk, cup, dog, cat, mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, sun, black, green, potty, cracker, chicken, cheese, clean, dirty, cook.