REALLY stupid question about potty training...

[pucca]

Once your child is managing to wee and poo in the potty really well, when can you...

A) Dress them properly with confidence?

B) Start venturing out of the house?

C) Do you take the potty when ever you go anywhere? for instance visiting family? and use toilets when in public?

How is the transistion made?

Sorry i am very stupid, 1st time potty training

Take a change of clothes and leave the potty behind.

Dress them properly as soon as they have the hang of it - expect a few slip ups until they realise clothes are not nappies, my dd did this for about a week.

After that week i stopped putting pull ups on when we were out. Only ever had one rather embarrassing accident in middle of restaurant .

No don't take potty anywhere, in fact bin it as soon as possible and use toilets everywhere - bushes when toilets are unavailable .

Not stupid - all sensible things! When i first had dd i realised i didn't know how supermarket shopping worked with a newborn . Had honestly never noticed the trolley's designed for carseats, and had to ask friends advice before taking first trip to Sainsburys

I take a couple of pairs of spare trousers, several pairs of spare pants and don't take the potty. My mum said that they made the mistake of taking my potty with me everywhere and I would only wee on it.

(I speak as a person with a DS who is basically trained and was very nervous when I first took him out with no nappy on. We even managed two 4 hour car trips last week with no nappy and no accidents)

I think that you need the kid to start using at least one of those seats to place on top of the toilet (insteadof a plastic potty), otherwise they may refuse to go in a regular one (or at least DS did!)

I got a protable potty which DS used once, so not a good investment tbh.

As for venturing out of the house, We still carry around a spare set of clothes just in case. For car trips/pushcharir, placing a folded towell on the seat (with a plastic bag inside of it) saved us from washing the casr seat/pushchair fabric in many occasions. HTH

Not all children need those seats Chandra, dd went straight to ordinary toilet quite happily. Depends how your child feels pucca.

I think is easier with girls HAttie, the problem with boys is that without a seat (or better said, without the little thingie at its front) boys are far more likely than a girl to spray all around. DS was really annoyed at getting his clothes wet even when properly sitting on the toilet, and refused to sit on it for several days, now he can use any toilet but the seat was a good help for the transition; but as I said in my first post, those were my thoughts, glad your girl doesn't get this sort of problems

Only just managed to get back on, thankyou for all the replies, very helpful as i said i am pretty clueless lol.

IIRC I had to 'help' DSs when they went on the toilet. I had to push their willys down so it didn't go everywhere, until they were confident enough to do it themselves, and only hold on to the seat with one hand!

I potty trained DD at the end of January and I still make sure she's had a wee before we go out anywhere. I do take a portable potty out with me, if we're going somewhere where I'm not sure about public toilets or if we're going to be out in the car for a long time but we've never had to use it. TBH I bought it more because I think it'll come in handy when we go camping

MIL does have a potty, but after the first couple of goes DD prefers to go on her toilet (we've got a potty chair at home, DD's used to that and doesn't like 'proper' pottys)

Definitely not stupid questions. DD's my third, and I'm still scratching my head about swapping her from the potty to the toilet!

I also help DS when he is on the toilet (although he is learning about pushing his willy in when on the potty at any rate )