Pooping at the playground

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is about pooping at the playground. Getting your potty out and letting your kid poop wherever he feels like it is gross. If you can't manage the poop training so that this isn't an issue you either suck at potty training or your kid is too young. The nannies can stop patting themselves on the back if they consider that a success. I potty trained my own kids and never had to bring a potty everywhere to enable spontaneous public pooping. Get real.

A toddler can use a travel potty discretely, off to the side, to pee or poop. It’s really no big deal. I doubt anyone noticed. They’re two years old.

They poop once a day. This isn't some insurmountable task. Your kid is not potty trained if this is so hard to manage. Put him in diapers until you're over that hump.

I’m not against portable potties for pee but yes, it’s odd to me you’d need them for poop. Part of the way I knew DD was ready to train was that she was going into another room to poop in private. It’s animal instinct, actually— many animals instinctively seek privacy to defacate.

I wonder if one reason a lot of kids develop problems around pooping during potty training is that they are being encouraged to poop in front of other people, including peers on the playground. Forget how other people will experience this— I think it’s weird for the kids.

Oh, Jesus, get over it! Preschool kids, younger that OP’s kid, poop in the toilets in front of each other all the time. DS has even told me how cool it was that Larla’s poo looked “like a baseball”.

Don’t put your weird shame hang ups on your kids.

What? No they don’t. If your preschool is having kids watching each other go to the bathroom that is a huge red flag.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is about pooping at the playground. Getting your potty out and letting your kid poop wherever he feels like it is gross. If you can't manage the poop training so that this isn't an issue you either suck at potty training or your kid is too young. The nannies can stop patting themselves on the back if they consider that a success. I potty trained my own kids and never had to bring a potty everywhere to enable spontaneous public pooping. Get real.

A toddler can use a travel potty discretely, off to the side, to pee or poop. It’s really no big deal. I doubt anyone noticed. They’re two years old.

They poop once a day. This isn't some insurmountable task. Your kid is not potty trained if this is so hard to manage. Put him in diapers until you're over that hump.

I’m not against portable potties for pee but yes, it’s odd to me you’d need them for poop. Part of the way I knew DD was ready to train was that she was going into another room to poop in private. It’s animal instinct, actually— many animals instinctively seek privacy to defacate.

I wonder if one reason a lot of kids develop problems around pooping during potty training is that they are being encouraged to poop in front of other people, including peers on the playground. Forget how other people will experience this— I think it’s weird for the kids.

Oh, Jesus, get over it! Preschool kids, younger that OP’s kid, poop in the toilets in front of each other all the time. DS has even told me how cool it was that Larla’s poo looked “like a baseball”.

Don’t put your weird shame hang ups on your kids.

What? No they don’t. If your preschool is having kids watching each other go to the bathroom that is a huge red flag.

No. All two’s and three’s rooms have open bathrooms.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is about pooping at the playground. Getting your potty out and letting your kid poop wherever he feels like it is gross. If you can't manage the poop training so that this isn't an issue you either suck at potty training or your kid is too young. The nannies can stop patting themselves on the back if they consider that a success. I potty trained my own kids and never had to bring a potty everywhere to enable spontaneous public pooping. Get real.

A toddler can use a travel potty discretely, off to the side, to pee or poop. It’s really no big deal. I doubt anyone noticed. They’re two years old.

They poop once a day. This isn't some insurmountable task. Your kid is not potty trained if this is so hard to manage. Put him in diapers until you're over that hump.

I’m not against portable potties for pee but yes, it’s odd to me you’d need them for poop. Part of the way I knew DD was ready to train was that she was going into another room to poop in private. It’s animal instinct, actually— many animals instinctively seek privacy to defacate.

I wonder if one reason a lot of kids develop problems around pooping during potty training is that they are being encouraged to poop in front of other people, including peers on the playground. Forget how other people will experience this— I think it’s weird for the kids.

Oh, Jesus, get over it! Preschool kids, younger that OP’s kid, poop in the toilets in front of each other all the time. DS has even told me how cool it was that Larla’s poo looked “like a baseball”.

Don’t put your weird shame hang ups on your kids.

What? No they don’t. If your preschool is having kids watching each other go to the bathroom that is a huge red flag.

No. All two’s and three’s rooms have open bathrooms.

They certainly do not. Kids are entitled to privacy too. I would never send my child to a preschool where they are forced to go the bathroom in front of the entire class. My children’s preschool has a single bathroom with a child sized toilet and sink. The very top of the door has a small window for an adult to easily check in on them if needed.

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I know I will get hate for this but we have used the portable potty everywhere. At the park, on the sidewalk, outside her daycare (because she told us she needed to go after we had left, and it's a walk to the entrance). On road trips during the city portion of the drive she has gone next to a building. There are many places where there are no public bathrooms. We really don't care. Most of the time nobody sees her. If there is no trash can we take the bag with us. You can think we are gross but it makes our lives so much easier and she doesn't have to sit in a wet diaper (poop is not an issue for her, she only poops at home). She is 3.5 now and we are using it less lately, but for the past year it's been awesome. OP, if it's working for you, ignore the haters. You are your child's parent, not them.