Potty training

[Tippitoesandbuttonnose]

Just want to put it out there that as a nursery nurse I've seen up to 15 kids a year get potty trained each in a different way, whatever works for that child I'll go along with. So I don't have a side

However, friends of mine were discussing potty training today. One is currently carrying around their potty for her DD who is potty training and has gotten potty out in supermarket etc. Basically in public places.

My other friend stated that carrying the potty around defeats the purpose of teaching a child to hold in till the bathroom as whipping a potty out is just as convenient as weeing in a nappy.

Anyway children potty train is fine with me as I'm paid to do what works for them/their parents. But who do you think is BU? The mother whipping out pottys wherever or the other who thinks it defeats purpose?

I would think that that type of potty training still teaches the child to recognise the feeling of needing a wee/poo and teaches them to let an adult know asap. Most people that do it that way gradually stop taking the potty out with them so the child eventually learns to wait.

It's not my preferred way but I can't see the harm in it, apart from how gross it is obviously

I don't carry a potty around with me but I do have an empty Ribena bottle in the car that I've had to use many times for DS when he suddenly announces that he needs a wee!!

Writerwannabe83
That's definitely an advantage of having a boy! Easier aim into more conspicuous containers

Potty training is more stages than being completey nappy reliant vs fully trained. Dd for instance can manage at home with no knickers. If in trousers and out then I have to be much more on the ball with reminders etc.

I think staying at home for a week while you get from not trained to pretty reliable is just not possible for some families, so they have to go out in the unbetweeny stages. No way we would stay in for a week, we'd go stir crazy

My DS was potty trained just after his 2nd birthday in Feb. He's now dry day and night, yes we have the occasional accident, but I consider him done!
We never took a potty out with us, I think he needs to understand that sometimes there isn't a toilet available and he might have to wait. Seems to have worked for us.

Granted there has been a couple of instances when he's clearly been desperate so we've found a bush to use, but more often than not he can hold it until we make it to a toilet.

We had a few days at home when we started, and for the first week of we were out in the car or the pram he had a pull up on but I still encouraged him to try and tell me when he needed to go.

I think potties in public places like supermarkets is unnecessary and unhygienic. Agree do what suits but with consideration for others.
I find delaying training until after school age more of an issue when parents can't be bothered to make the effort out of sheer laziness or fear of traumatising their precious pre schooler. So unfair on both child and school.

No potty here at all. At 3 we went straight to toilet trainer seat at home, little toilets at nursery and me dangling her over public loos or finding a patch of grass if we were out and about. Can't imagine the faff of carting a potty around everywhere!