pushed to be potty trained?

[lilybird]

dd had a party on saturday & one her friends came over (there's 2 weeks age difference) to cut a long short, her friend refused to go on the toilet, her mum says she thinks all toilets are dirty and will only go on a potty. she was holding her wee for ages before her dad got back with the potty, they also have trouble her number2's as she just will not do one, she's taking laxatives as doc says it's all in her head.
now this couple really pushed her into potty training, whereas i let dd tell us when she was ready, do you think that this is causing the problem?

I think it is impossible to say. My DD refuses to use toilets, but she'll happily hold her wee in or use her potty or pottette out and about. I fear that she has picked it up from me as I dislike using public loos as they're dirty .

However, she was more than ready for potty training - to the extent that before we had started she had been known to go to the potty, pull her pants down and do her bis and then call us over to help!

It's hard to say when it's someone you don't know all that well - maybe best not to judge?

Maybe it's her parents' attitude towards toilets that's doing it, rather than early potty training? Or maybe she just has one of those strange notions that children sometimes get ... my dd is almost 5, and will still only use our toilet to poo in - and that had nothing to do with early potting training as she wasn't dry until she was almost 3, clean at almost 4.