Child using potty in public

[Moominfan]

I'm pretty easy going, bordering on complacent to mumsnet standards. Went to a fair today. Kid and dad in queue. Dad whips out Potty and the kid does their business there and then. Is this what I have to look forward to? Mines not potty trained yet. Would most people atleast go hide behind a bush or something? There were loads of people around. Place was heaving.

For at home we got toilet seats with a fold down child/toddler seat inside the bottom of the lid, they were around £30 from Argos. They were brilliant, would recommend them to anyone looking to go from nappies to toilet without using a potty.

This is unnecesary and gross. I don't know why parents do it. I have potty trained 2 kids and never carried a potty around with me.

Agree it’s grim. Even more so when people do it in restaurants or cafes etc.

Never even crossed my mind to do such a thing, you go to the toilets. I never carried a potty around, we had a seat thing and step for our home toilet but out you just help them balance on the toilet.

I've toilet trained two boys. I've never taken a potty out, just went straight to toilet when out. If you can't get them to the toilet then they probably arnlent ready

I was at a local farm today a lady whipped out a potty in the middle of the play area, child (around 3) sat and did a huge shit. Mum then shoved the full potty under the picnic table while they finished their lunch...
I was a bit especially at there was a public toilet next to the play area.

This has to be a wind up surely. Whipping out a potty in the middle of John Lewis or anywhere else. Outrageous!!!

There are public’s toilets. Where any person no matter what age should be toileting unless they are in a nappy!!!

I wouldn't want my kids going to the toilet infront of other people private parts stay private

We had a little portable potty when training but only ever used it in the cubicle- DS wouldn’t use a loo at first. Also by the side of the road on long car journeys!

Dobby...r u Cumbria? We don't have many Loos left at all :(

Us today. At a Fate. She went before we left then 10 mins later she wanted to go again. DP took her to the toilets but it was too late. So a trip to the car for a wee in the potty and change of clothes. So far today we've had a wee in the potty in a field, in Waitrose car park and I've just realised it can fit in the passenger footwell of our car so that's warmer.

As it was because we were so open and chilled about potty training he cracked it very quickly.

Ridiculously inappropriate and selfish of you. If you need to get a potty out in John Lewis your child isn't ready for potty training. Other shoppers don't want to see your kid's shit!

I waited until they were ready which is why they cracked it so quickly. They were 2.2yo, 2.10yo, and 3yo and all reliably clean/dry within a week.

YANBU.

Plenty of people manage to crack potty training without whipping out an actual potty in public. Bloody hell.

Now I await all the accusations of trying to claim I'm some sort of 'perfect parent'. Uh, no, this is absolutel base level parenting.

I waited until my son was doing a few hours with a dry nappy and it honestly was no stress. He was about 3yrs 3 months.
I know a lot of people think this is late, but to me spending months taking them to the toilet every half an hour is pointless!
He does a wee before we go out and every couple of hours while we're out and he's fine with going on the toilet, just no hand drivers as he calls them lol

nope, never brought a potty with us (and also never stayed in for days during potty training - just waited until they were ready). and we always at least went a couple of meters away from other people. if a child can’t wait 30 seconds to 1 minute, they aren’t really potty trained yet, just relying on parents rather than a nappy.

Abbazed no, South West. That’s sad to hear you too have a lack of loo. We are a tourist area. Last week I saw the postie run to the loo block in the middle of rural village to find loo block locked. Next village on was the same, locked loos. The council can’t afford to run them. Don’t know where people go..

I’ve had people ask me where the nearest one is and I don’t know. No shops or cafes here. No loos either. Used to be public loos in the villages but they’ve all gone.

People in towns and cities can’t imagine that there really aren’t public loos. Pubs don’t open in the day, so that’s no good.

thats hellish

Can I explain that I wasn’t following the postie. I drove on to the next village and popped into see a friend who has a cafe. She said her single loo was getting huge traffic as the village loo block was getting repaired and it was shut for the foreseeable. So that was two rural touristy villages next door to each other with no public loo.

Ah balls to this. I've potty trained two and loved the porta potty, always had it with me. Even when children are ready they still make urgent announcements at the very last minute - I'd whip it out anywhere.

Having said that, I'd have dashed to a more discreet area if I could but sometimes it is that desperate.

We have one awful public toilet in town. It's a rural town with barely anything left.

@DobbyTheHouseElk Absolutely. I'm near a big village without a public toilet.

We never really trained ours per se tbh, when they were ready they just kind of did it. The odd accident along the way but that's par of the course isn't it.

Never owned a potty either. But I can understand why it can sometimes be necessary when out and about.

When a kid is new to potty training and has to go, it's pretty much right then and then. I bought a my potty carry which folds in two and has a water tight seal on it, no need to dispose off until near a loo.

Middle of John Lewis is disgusting! Typical self entitled parent behaviour that thinks they are more entitled than anyone else just because they have reproduced.

Before we go out I check if DC needs the loo and then when we get wherever we are going I ask again - John Lewis has loos on most floors so no excuse to subject everyone else to your child's piss and shit