Mother potty training her toddler in the middle of a hotel

[jenk1]

Title says it all really.
I went to the gym today which is in a hotel, a quite big hotel which has lots of guests, always business meetings going on,functions etc.

Well anyway i was sat outside the cafe waiting for DH to pick me up and a lady came out of the cafe, into the foyer of the hotel complete with a potty and 2 toddlers and sat one down then took the potty into the ladies toilet which was in front of her and emptied it.

I was gobsmacked, i dont understand why she didnt just take them into the toilet or at least to somewhere quieter in the hotel, but right in the middle that is full of people, surely thats not right?

Yep, I agree (yet again!) FrannyandZ...to be honest, I'd have happily waited another six months, but DD asked to pee in the potty one day. The rat.

Oh hoorah. It seems like such a terribly unusual and unpopular viewpoint that I worry people think I am just saying it for the sake of being different. But it just seems obvious to me, to just let them get on with it in the way that you would anything else.

Thanks for explaining that to me FAZ i think what you have said makes a lot of sense, tbh i have been wondering about DD, she is 2 in april and people keep saying "is she on the potty yet" and i just say "no", she isnt remotely interested but then she does have development delay so she wont be out of nappies for a long while but even then i wont force her, this makes me think of the other day, we took her to see the physio and she made her walk 3 steps, she was crying and didnt want to do it, she has mild CP and has only just managed to stand on her feet in the last few weeks, when we came away i thought, im not going to force her to walk because "she,s not ready to" the physio was saying "come on your,e nearly 2 u should be walking now"

Oh and the home schooling is going ok, DS has a private tutor now and she,s really good with him, he only sees her once a week and we do the rest.

Are you thinking of home-edding?

Minitilly was two last november and I am sick to death of people asking me why I haven't started potty training
especially when the truth is I can't be bothered!!!!
He knows when he has done a wee or a poo and he will have a wee on the toilet or potty when getting up / going to bed, but he doesn't seem at all ready
think I shall leave it a few months yet but I'm not sure I subscribe to the he'll do it when he's ready school of thought, but then, I don't want him in nappies indefinitely

I go with what orinocco says, probably just looking for the loo and couldn't find the damn thing in time, I've had to pop dd down on the porta potty in the disney shop front before now, as she suddenly went 'mummy poo now' and there is no waiting for that when it appears......(and no loos within a damn good walk with a toddler n buggy radius......when they're learning they just don't always know how long they can hold on, with many a disasterous consequence.

FrannyandZooey

I agree with you too.

I took the same approach and dd did it all herself. Just announced one day that she wasn't going to wear nappies anymore and that was it. Very stressfree.

Doing the same with ds, who after a few weeks of him getting his potty out and sitting on it, finally produced some wee in it today!!! He was very pleased with himself..... But he will decide when to go into pants. Not me...

Jenk, yes, I really want to let him learn at home. I feel so strongly about the school system and how it fails children. I feel sad about it, though, as I would really like ds to mix with lots of other children, use exciting equipment and meet inspiring adults but it is so hard to provide all that by yourself at home.

Also I would like to have more children and the idea of dealing with a baby or toddler plus home educating an older child is a bit daunting to me. But then I am quite lazy

Ah but this lady had been in the swimming pool at the same time as me before this and was having her lunch in the members cafe, she is a member and does know where the loos are, not that it matters now though, maybe she was just struggling.

I agree - can't make it to the toilet - wear a pull up when out. Ds soon let me know he would rather be in undies and go to the toilet when there was one available than wet himself in a pull up.

And I think children are more adaptable than we give them credit for. Ds will use a potty at home, but when out he uses a toilet. There is no way on earth I would drag a potty around.