day potty trained - what to do for car trip?

[Anonymous]

I put one of those waterproof pads for the changing table (flat kind) on the carseat under the kid. It's super thin and small.. We potty before hand and be sure to stop every 2 hrs for a bathroom break. Kids do better than you'd expect. If you have time before the trip - I'd stop using a pullup for naps. Make sure her mattress has a waterproof cover and you're good. Nap potty training isn't hard - one or two accidents at most. It's the night time that's different.

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Anonymous wrote:We used a pull up in the car for road trips (that's what DS naps and sleeps in). It didn't set us back at all. He still wanted to go in the potty when we stopped. We also put a waterproof pad made for car seats (can't recall the brand) under him in case he had an accident. I think you will be fine putting a diaper on her during the car ride.

Did this with our DD both in the car and on plane rides. She didn't tell us she had to go until it was a RIGHT NOW scenario, so we wouldn't have the luxury of time to find the next exit or wait until takeoff was complete. She was fine with a pullup, understanding it was simply to help all of us as a backup measure. Didn't set potty training back a bit.

That's why you need to be proactive in using the potty before take off, etc

NP here--seems like PP had a solution that worked for their family, seeing that it didn't set potty training back a bit.

A truly potty trained child should be able to wait for taxiing if they've gone right before, but everyone has their own definitions.

[Anonymous]

You can put pullup over the underwear - as a "just in case". That way they still feel the underwear and will feel if they are wet, but it will not go everywhere and cause a big mess.

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Anonymous wrote:We used a pull up in the car for road trips (that's what DS naps and sleeps in). It didn't set us back at all. He still wanted to go in the potty when we stopped. We also put a waterproof pad made for car seats (can't recall the brand) under him in case he had an accident. I think you will be fine putting a diaper on her during the car ride.

Did this with our DD both in the car and on plane rides. She didn't tell us she had to go until it was a RIGHT NOW scenario, so we wouldn't have the luxury of time to find the next exit or wait until takeoff was complete. She was fine with a pullup, understanding it was simply to help all of us as a backup measure. Didn't set potty training back a bit.

That's why you need to be proactive in using the potty before take off, etc

NP here--seems like PP had a solution that worked for their family, seeing that it didn't set potty training back a bit.

A truly potty trained child should be able to wait for taxiing if they've gone right before, but everyone has their own definitions.

A potty trained child is one that knows how to identify that they need to go to the bathroom and can use it when accessible. A potty trained child has no control over the size of his or her bladder.

[Anonymous]

It's actually a great way to keep the potty training going. Your child won't be running around the house out of your view, and he isn't going to pee in a seat that he knows he is going to have to sit in! Just be sure to pull over whenever you see a rest stop (while he is awake) and let him try to use the potty. I wouldn't recommend putting a diaper on him. That will just set you back.

[Anonymous]

So I guess I'm a crazy mom... We're driving 14 hours next weekend with two kids (ages 2 and 4) and a dog. We frequently make this trip to our second home... If we stopped every 2 hours, the trip would take days.

My 4 year-old is fully trained and has been for almost 2 years. She'll be wearing a Pull Up. It works for us and she knows we only do this on long car rides.

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Anonymous wrote:We used a pull up in the car for road trips (that's what DS naps and sleeps in). It didn't set us back at all. He still wanted to go in the potty when we stopped. We also put a waterproof pad made for car seats (can't recall the brand) under him in case he had an accident. I think you will be fine putting a diaper on her during the car ride.

Did this with our DD both in the car and on plane rides. She didn't tell us she had to go until it was a RIGHT NOW scenario, so we wouldn't have the luxury of time to find the next exit or wait until takeoff was complete. She was fine with a pullup, understanding it was simply to help all of us as a backup measure. Didn't set potty training back a bit.

That's why you need to be proactive in using the potty before take off, etc

NP here--seems like PP had a solution that worked for their family, seeing that it didn't set potty training back a bit.

A truly potty trained child should be able to wait for taxiing if they've gone right before, but everyone has their own definitions.

A potty trained child is one that knows how to identify that they need to go to the bathroom and can use it when accessible. A potty trained child has no control over the size of his or her bladder.

Not exactly. A potty trained child can also hold their bladder for a couple of hours. That is one of the readiness benchmarks.

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Anonymous wrote:So I guess I'm a crazy mom... We're driving 14 hours next weekend with two kids (ages 2 and 4) and a dog. We frequently make this trip to our second home... If we stopped every 2 hours, the trip would take days.

My 4 year-old is fully trained and has been for almost 2 years. She'll be wearing a Pull Up. It works for us and she knows we only do this on long car rides.

Are you the same mom who drives on day long trips and only stops once or not at all?

And yeah, you're crazy, and incredibly lazy. We all have places to go. Making your preschooler soil themselves for your convenience is disgusting and absolutely terrible parenting. It is one thing to have a back up pull up just in case you can't make it to a bathroom. It is a completely different story to intentionally not stop to make good time and have a fully potty trained child piss and shit themselves.

For someone who travels this trip so often you seem to be downright awful at planning. Running into the bathroom every few hours or using a portable potty shouldn't extend your trip to days, and a child that has been potty trained for years shouldn't need to use the bathroom every 2 hours unless you're loading them up on liquids. You seem truly inept.

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Anonymous wrote:So I guess I'm a crazy mom... We're driving 14 hours next weekend with two kids (ages 2 and 4) and a dog. We frequently make this trip to our second home... If we stopped every 2 hours, the trip would take days.

My 4 year-old is fully trained and has been for almost 2 years. She'll be wearing a Pull Up. It works for us and she knows we only do this on long car rides.

"It works for us" ... No, it works for you. Have you asked your child how she feels about having to crap on herself every time you go on vacation? Why don't YOU wear a Depends to make it even faster? Only fair ....

[Anonymous]

Before you all make raging allegations, my daughter hasn't ever had to poop in the car and her pull up is dry. much safer than having to pull over on the Jersey turnpike in traffic. Believe me, we stop at the rest stops but want the pull up as a back up when traffic is horrible.

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Anonymous wrote:Before you all make raging allegations, my daughter hasn't ever had to poop in the car and her pull up is dry. much safer than having to pull over on the Jersey turnpike in traffic. Believe me, we stop at the rest stops but want the pull up as a back up when traffic is horrible.

I think people are assuming you're the mom who posted on another thread like this that she puts her 4 year old in diapers/pull ups so they can drive 12 hours straight and not stop. She specifically said she makes her kid pee on themselves when she could easily stop, because of saving time.

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Anonymous wrote:We used a pull up in the car for road trips (that's what DS naps and sleeps in). It didn't set us back at all. He still wanted to go in the potty when we stopped. We also put a waterproof pad made for car seats (can't recall the brand) under him in case he had an accident. I think you will be fine putting a diaper on her during the car ride.

Did this with our DD both in the car and on plane rides. She didn't tell us she had to go until it was a RIGHT NOW scenario, so we wouldn't have the luxury of time to find the next exit or wait until takeoff was complete. She was fine with a pullup, understanding it was simply to help all of us as a backup measure. Didn't set potty training back a bit.

That's why you need to be proactive in using the potty before take off, etc

NP here--seems like PP had a solution that worked for their family, seeing that it didn't set potty training back a bit.

A truly potty trained child should be able to wait for taxiing if they've gone right before, but everyone has their own definitions.

A potty trained child is one that knows how to identify that they need to go to the bathroom and can use it when accessible. A potty trained child has no control over the size of his or her bladder.

Not exactly. A potty trained child can also hold their bladder for a couple of hours. That is one of the readiness benchmarks.

Don't you have adult friends who have different bladder capabilities? My mother in law pees all the damn time. My dh can go for 6 hours without needing the bathroom (daytime). I think it's fair to say that some kids can hold their pee longer than others.