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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm just reading this and realizing: this is one of the reasons potty training is so hard. People have such weirdly intense feelings about it, and so many people disagree. Like I've heard people say that a child in diapers over the age of 2 or 2.5 is "gross" -- it's a common attitude on here because people are very in favor of early training. But now we see people who think the portable potties are gross and inappropriate. Of course, if you train early, you pretty much have to use a portable potty, because as PP's have noted, kids that age can't hold it for however long it will take you to find a bathroom. And if you don't use a portable potty, you pretty much have to train later when your kid has more ability to wait for a potty when you are out of the house.

Maybe it's just that potty training involves poop and pee and is, by nature, kind of gross, and maybe we should all cut each other some slack instead of shaming one another for the somewhat unpleasant aspects of teaching our kids to put waste in a toilet? Like maybe diapers are kind of gross AND portable potties are kind of gross and everyone is just trying the best they can.[/quote]

LOVE THIS perspective. Much of parenting is damned if you do, damned if you dont. We are all just trying our best and what seems to work for our particular kid and their temperament but also where, we, as parents are. Sometimes you dont have the bandwidth to be perfect or do the hard stuff. Sometimes the medium stuff works, even if it takes longer. [/quote]

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