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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I used to get the urge to go every time I went to Barnes and Noble in my 20s. The playground is a poop trigger for your kid OP. Stop taking him for a while as others have suggested. And quit with carting the plastic potty around. Gross.[/quote]

What is with this anti-plastic potty thing? It's so helpful when they are little and much less gross than having them wear diapers. OP, ignore these fools.[/quote]

I do think the portable potties are gross for poop. I also think the push to potty train earlier and earlier, and to do it fast so that families can keep going out as much as possible, is what drives their popularity. We never used a portable potty because we stuck close to home when potty training and also didn't rush it -- we were just never in a position where my kid was young and inexperienced enough with potty training that they couldn't make it to a nearby bathroom to go. I didn't really consider her potty trained until she was capable of realizing she needed to go with enough warning for us to get to a bathroom. And yes, that meant that for a while we had to stick to playgrounds at rec centers with toilets, or close to home. It was like 6 months -- not a huge sacrifice.

The upside is that my kid never pooped herself at the playground. YMMV.[/quote]

I am the OP - we only started potty training because my little guy showed interest - he wanted to be like his big brother! He sat down himself and started peeing! He pooped without prompting and all by himself one glorious time before the proverbial shit hit the fan. (No real shit has hit any actual fan - yet.) I agree he isn't potty trained yet - I don't claim he is. That's that problem.

Now we've been at this for 6 months or more now, and we've stalled. None of our local playgrounds have public bathrooms that are regularly open, so saying "avoid the playground for a while" is basically saying "deprive your child of outdoor time, or travel very long distances." We don't have a yard he can play in, public playgrounds are it. So he stays in a pull-up at the playground because every other option is too gross, and we keep trying to get him to go before we leave and at other times. And we bring the fold-up travel potty because at least if one day he decides he wants to go in it, it will be there as an option - I don't get why people think this is weird? Like someone else said, this is pretty normal at all our playgrounds, we're not the only ones.

Anyway, "normal" potty training stuff isn't working, so I'm looking for the kind of advice only strangers on the internet can give. Or, a recommendation to someone I can pay to help me solve this. (And I've ordered a dollhouse-sized playground set that will now go in the bathroom at home because why the heck not it can't possibly make things worse.)

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I would keep him home or somewhere close to a bathroom while actively potty training. He has no incentive for doing this differently right now. Or use a pull up and take a break trying to potty train. As for pooping at the playground, how would you feel like if I pooped in a bag right next to the monkey bars?[/quote]

About the same as if you pooped in your pants and then slid down the slide, honestly.[/quote]

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