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[quote=Anonymous]Stay at home dad here. I have a weird question. How do I get a two year old girl to use the bathroom in public? She's been potty trained for about three weeks. She tells us when she has to go, and she hasn't wet herself at all (day or night) in that time. The only problem I'm running into is getting her to go in a public bathroom.

Over the past month while she was potty training I stayed close to home. The park, playground and grocery store are all within a 5-10 minute walk from our house. I limited our trips outside to 60-90 minutes. Now that she's trained, I tried going further from home. We went to the mall a few days ago and when she had to go I took her into the men's bathroom (I couldn't find a family room). I pulled her pants down and tried to just hold her over the toilet but she flipped out! She locked her legs and kept trying to climb out of my arms. All of this happened while she was peeing so it sprayed all over me, her pants and the floor. We ended up going home.

Today we went to Target and she had to go. This time, I took her into one of the handicapped stalls and took her pants and everything off. I tried to hold her over the toilet but, again, she was afraid and wouldn't go. I held her there for a while, but eventually gave up. I stood her up in the stroller to put her pants back on and she started peeing. I moved her back over the toilet, but by that point about half of it was already inside the City Mini.

So again, my question is how do I get a little girl to go to the bathroom? I'm completely out of my element here. With a little boy, you just "point and click" and he goes in the urinal. You don't even have to pull his pants all the way down. I know that part of it has to do with me holding her over the toilet, but...I don't know if you've seen the inside of a men's bathroom, but the stalls are the worst part. There's no chance in hell that I'm going to sit her on one of those toilets even with the little paper guard thing.

So what do I do? Any advice would be appreciated. She turned two about a month ago, so her conversational skills aren't the best. Talking her through it isn't too effective. [/quote]

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