Where is it acceptable to use a travel potty???

[BiscuitStuffer]

Seriously - I am fully aware that it isn't in the aisles at sainsburys but if you're out and about in the street / park etc, what do you do?

I saw a child using one by the tills in boots the other day, no-one batted an eyelid!

Anywhere if the alternative is wee all over the floor, I would say. that's the point of travel potties for us - for very newly potty trained/training toddlers to use at the instant they say they need a wee - you don't have time then to look for the loo unless you're right by it.

Obviously you do your best to do it somewhere appropriate, but time is of the essence sometimes!

Agree with flamingo "anywhere if the alternative is wee over the floor" and yes I've even used mine in the aisles in Sainsburys as the alternative was wee over the floor.

I would agree with anywhere - if anyone complains just retort with "would you rather he weed on the floor?"

Sorry, but not in the aisles in Sainsburys, or any other shop.

If necessary, just outside the door of the shop, just before you go in, and immediately after you come out again. And do small shops until they've got the hang of it!

In the street, or in the park - yes, but not right next to someone having a picnic.

Obviously Smithagain was lucky enough to potty train young children with cast iron bladders who weed on command.

I wasn't and with 3 under 18 months couldn't limit trips to small shops or manage to dump trolly and successfully haul 3 small children round a large supermarket in the 2 seconds needed to get out.

Didn't really want to splash wee merrily round the shop as we went on that 2 second dash so used a travel potty on a couple of occasions and you know what having successfully potty trained 3 children in 1 year I never once had critical comments over where the potty was used.

As long as it's not in a restaurant/cafe most people just acknowledge that a 2 year old on a travel potty is due to exceptional circumstances during the early days of potty training. Not one drip ends on the floor, the bag is neatly tied up and stowed away,if you're discrete it's out of sight and it's over in seconds. You'd have to be pretty precious to find that unacceptable.

i think its more of any age thing, under three anywhere really as long as you are discreet. if it had to be in a shop, then at the back in a corner with you standing infront.

older than that and especially a poo - out of sight to everyone. carpark is fine, maybe by the end of the car facing wall. in parks behind a bush, down an alley.

definitely not in a shop queue or in the middle of a street.

the poor child would find it hard to concentrate anyway.

Yes over 3s who've been doing it a while can hold on enough to get out. 2 year olds in the 1st few weeks of training just can't and boy can they produce a lot (as I found to my cost several times).

I've thankfully only had to use it once out shopping as ds can hang on abit now but there was no toilets. I went outside into car park and found a quiet spot out of the way, as much for his sake as anyone elses.

Dd (5.1) Often has to go and refusses to use public loo's (i can't blame her), we try and find a corner of a car park or a lay-by.I have never let her go on a pavement but she's always managed to hold on for 5 minutes when i find somewhere quite to go.

"Obviously Smithagain was lucky enough to potty train young children with cast iron bladders who weed on command."

No, I potty trained two young children with pretty normal bladders, but never needed to get the travel potty out in a food store.

In the park, yes. On the pavement, yes. In the middle of a car park, yes.

Maybe I was lucky. It didn't feel like it at the time. It felt like a military operation with carefully planned shopping trips, dodging from one loo/potty to another, with mad dashes for shopping in between. And planning the first couple of weeks carefully so that any huge shopping trips were not done with small children in tow.

Actually, looking at it again. Yes, I guess I did wait until both children could wee on command. In the sense that they were both able to produce a wee when sat on a toilet, provided it had been a reasonable time since they last went. Meaning that it was possible to make sure they used a loo immediately before going into somewhere I didn't want to use the potty - giving me a window of opportunity to get a quick shop done before the next emergency .

They did not, however, have bladders of cast iron. And we did have an incident in Woolworths that caused a 17yo Saturday lad to rethink his ambitions to work in retail .

i used one i a charity shop once lol he needed to go i had the potty he went

when he couldn't i would find a corner somewhere out the way in the street and sit him on

when he couldnt ask that should have said