Anyone else use Potty in SUV trunk?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yep, I kept a potty in the car for emergencies but never used it. My sister-in-law kept one and used it a number of times for her kids and friend's kids; she used plastic bags as inserts and she (or the other parent) would toss it - not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. Not all parks have bathrooms (those that do are typically gross anyway) and some kids have urgent needs.

As another poster pointed out, park bathrooms have always been gross and probably will always be gross - so at what age do you stop carrying around your child's toilet with you and teach them to use a park bathroom? Or do you parent intend to have eight-year-olds squatting over your potettes to defecate?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is getting as batshit as the one where the lady walked 8 miles. Someone must be having some fun trolling this weekend.

The subject of this thread is batshit. Toilet-training means training your child to use a toilet - which involves training them to void their bladders before they leave they house whether they think they have to "go" or not and learning to use public restrooms. It does not mean following your child around with a plastic bucket for their convenience.

PP was right - this will be the most entitled generation in history.

I agree with this. If you are driving around with a disposable potty in the back of your car you are not toilet-training your children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is getting as batshit as the one where the lady walked 8 miles. Someone must be having some fun trolling this weekend.

The subject of this thread is batshit. Toilet-training means training your child to use a toilet - which involves training them to void their bladders before they leave they house whether they think they have to "go" or not and learning to use public restrooms. It does not mean following your child around with a plastic bucket for their convenience.

PP was right - this will be the most entitled generation in history.

I agree with this. If you are driving around with a disposable potty in the back of your car you are not toilet-training your children.

So, say you have a few very young children with you at a park for playing and a picnic... If one child has an urgent need to use the bathroom, you are really going to load up everyone and everything into the car to rush around trying to find a public toilet rather than just use a little potty (private, clean) in the back of your car? Again, this is for very young children -- say pre-school and younger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is getting as batshit as the one where the lady walked 8 miles. Someone must be having some fun trolling this weekend.

The subject of this thread is batshit. Toilet-training means training your child to use a toilet - which involves training them to void their bladders before they leave they house whether they think they have to "go" or not and learning to use public restrooms. It does not mean following your child around with a plastic bucket for their convenience.

PP was right - this will be the most entitled generation in history.

I agree with this. If you are driving around with a disposable potty in the back of your car you are not toilet-training your children.

So, say you have a few very young children with you at a park for playing and a picnic... If one child has an urgent need to use the bathroom, you are really going to load up everyone and everything into the car to rush around trying to find a public toilet rather than just use a little potty (private, clean) in the back of your car? Again, this is for very young children -- say pre-school and younger.

If this happens so often that you carry a poop pail you should try a different park.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is getting as batshit as the one where the lady walked 8 miles. Someone must be having some fun trolling this weekend.

The subject of this thread is batshit. Toilet-training means training your child to use a toilet - which involves training them to void their bladders before they leave they house whether they think they have to "go" or not and learning to use public restrooms. It does not mean following your child around with a plastic bucket for their convenience.

PP was right - this will be the most entitled generation in history.

I agree with this. If you are driving around with a disposable potty in the back of your car you are not toilet-training your children.

Totally agree. I'm not really sure why people are being so hostile about it. But I do think it's odd that people carry little potties around. If your child can't "hold it" until you get to a bathroom, he's not potty trained.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is getting as batshit as the one where the lady walked 8 miles. Someone must be having some fun trolling this weekend.

The subject of this thread is batshit. Toilet-training means training your child to use a toilet - which involves training them to void their bladders before they leave they house whether they think they have to "go" or not and learning to use public restrooms. It does not mean following your child around with a plastic bucket for their convenience.

PP was right - this will be the most entitled generation in history.

I agree with this. If you are driving around with a disposable potty in the back of your car you are not toilet-training your children.

So, say you have a few very young children with you at a park for playing and a picnic... If one child has an urgent need to use the bathroom, you are really going to load up everyone and everything into the car to rush around trying to find a public toilet rather than just use a little potty (private, clean) in the back of your car? Again, this is for very young children -- say pre-school and younger.

So you are going to pack everyone up and rush back to your car in the parking lot but not use the public bathroom which is probably right near the parking lot in most large public parks?

I'm a NP here but we do a great deal of traveling with twin 3 year old boys who have been potty trained for over nine-months and this dire situation has never arisen for us. I make them use the bathroom before we leave the house or hotel and we do not stay in any rural, bathroom-less area for more than a few hours anyway. I have to say I find this new trend of carrying around your children's toilets to be ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love pottee potty http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0016L0MMS?pc_redir=1405052689&robot_redir=1

I toss the bag in the trash. Lysol wipe it down set a new bag.
We are always on the go and most public restrooms are disgusting

Yeah, they're definitely more disgusting than just letting your kid shit in a bucket and then driving around with it.

That's not how pottee potty works but whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love pottee potty http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0016L0MMS?pc_redir=1405052689&robot_redir=1

I toss the bag in the trash. Lysol wipe it down set a new bag.
We are always on the go and most public restrooms are disgusting

Public restrooms have always been disgusting and probably will always be disgusting - at what age will you stop letting your child pull down his pants and defecate in your car?

I'm 40 . Do not use public restrooms. When he is taller and can reach into a standard toilet he use the public restroom. Or a tree. I don't rightfully care. This works for us. And if it doesn't work for you ok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is getting as batshit as the one where the lady walked 8 miles. Someone must be having some fun trolling this weekend.

The subject of this thread is batshit. Toilet-training means training your child to use a toilet - which involves training them to void their bladders before they leave they house whether they think they have to "go" or not and learning to use public restrooms. It does not mean following your child around with a plastic bucket for their convenience.

PP was right - this will be the most entitled generation in history.

I agree with this. If you are driving around with a disposable potty in the back of your car you are not toilet-training your children.

Totally agree. I'm not really sure why people are being so hostile about it. But I do think it's odd that people carry little potties around. If your child can't "hold it" until you get to a bathroom, he's not potty trained.

And your point is…? Children don't go overnight from wearing diapers 24-7 to being 100% completely potty trained. Or did you wave some kind of magic wand to make this happen?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is getting as batshit as the one where the lady walked 8 miles. Someone must be having some fun trolling this weekend.

The subject of this thread is batshit. Toilet-training means training your child to use a toilet - which involves training them to void their bladders before they leave they house whether they think they have to "go" or not and learning to use public restrooms. It does not mean following your child around with a plastic bucket for their convenience.

PP was right - this will be the most entitled generation in history.

I agree with this. If you are driving around with a disposable potty in the back of your car you are not toilet-training your children.

So, say you have a few very young children with you at a park for playing and a picnic... If one child has an urgent need to use the bathroom, you are really going to load up everyone and everything into the car to rush around trying to find a public toilet rather than just use a little potty (private, clean) in the back of your car? Again, this is for very young children -- say pre-school and younger.

So you are going to pack everyone up and rush back to your car in the parking lot but not use the public bathroom which is probably right near the parking lot in most large public parks?

I'm a NP here but we do a great deal of traveling with twin 3 year old boys who have been potty trained for over nine-months and this dire situation has never arisen for us. I make them use the bathroom before we leave the house or hotel and we do not stay in any rural, bathroom-less area for more than a few hours anyway. I have to say I find this new trend of carrying around your children's toilets to be ridiculous.

I grew up in the 70s and I remember my parents having a portable potty in the back of the van for my younger siblings we went on long trips. I imagine they had it for me as well, but I would be too young to remember. It's certainly not a "new trend". But you can go back to your handwringing if it makes you feel better.

[Anonymous]

To the person who asked if going in a diaper/pants and going in a potty in the back of the car are the only alternatives, I point you to this comment:

"If your child can't "hold it" until you get to a bathroom, he's not potty trained."

That's the implication, right there. Don't bother PT your kid until he can hold it for some indeterminate amount of time. So then... He goes in a diaper. Much more civilized than peeing in a potty with a plastic disposable liner? Yeah, uh huh.

And it's not a new trend-- in the past, it was called a bottle or a tree

[Anonymous]

I always had the potty in the trunk of my SUV when dd was potty training. Why expose them to all the germs in filthy public restrooms ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is getting as batshit as the one where the lady walked 8 miles. Someone must be having some fun trolling this weekend.

The subject of this thread is batshit. Toilet-training means training your child to use a toilet - which involves training them to void their bladders before they leave they house whether they think they have to "go" or not and learning to use public restrooms. It does not mean following your child around with a plastic bucket for their convenience.

PP was right - this will be the most entitled generation in history.

I agree with this. If you are driving around with a disposable potty in the back of your car you are not toilet-training your children.

Totally agree. I'm not really sure why people are being so hostile about it. But I do think it's odd that people carry little potties around. If your child can't "hold it" until you get to a bathroom, he's not potty trained.

And your point is…? Children don't go overnight from wearing diapers 24-7 to being 100% completely potty trained. Or did you wave some kind of magic wand to make this happen?

+1 It's not weird. Using a toddler potty is an intermediate step towards being potty trained. We bring our potty when we go for a walk to the park because it is often a 90 minute trip and the only real potty on the way is a port-a-potty (We tried using it once and it was so completely disgusting that DD wouldn't use it.) We've used our little potty a couple of times on the sidewalk and I don't give a toddler-sized piss what anyone things about that.

[Anonymous]

When we were still in the "newness" phase of potty training, my son had to wear a pullup on a long trip, just in case we couldn't stop. He was able to hold it, but you never know when you're going to be stuck on 95.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love pottee potty http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0016L0MMS?pc_redir=1405052689&robot_redir=1

I toss the bag in the trash. Lysol wipe it down set a new bag.
We are always on the go and most public restrooms are disgusting

Public restrooms have always been disgusting and probably will always be disgusting - at what age will you stop letting your child pull down his pants and defecate in your car?

I'm 40 . Do not use public restrooms. When he is taller and can reach into a standard toilet he use the public restroom. Or a tree. I don't rightfully care. This works for us. And if it doesn't work for you ok.

Wait - at 40 you pee or poop on a tree rather than a public bathroom?!

PS Your son peeing on a tree doesn't work for me if I'm the next person to sit under that same tree.