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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are people really grossed out by seeing a very young kid use a travel potty outside in the park?!!

Too bad.  [/quote]

The fact that it's a child doesn't change the fact that it is rude, disgusting, lazy and unnecessary. Then what do you do with the poop? bag it and bring it home? This is insane. Just put a diaper on your kid if he's not potty trained.[/quote]

You bag it and put it in the trash can, just like you do with a dirty diaper, or dog poop.

You don’t get out much, do you?[/quote]

Does the kid bend over butt to the sky so you can wipe it in front of the entire park? I have never seen this gross behavior before and have spent plenty of time in the park. This isn't as normal or as common as you're making it out to be.[/quote]

This has got to be location based. We're in Columbia Heights and I see this ALL THE TIME. If you're in the suburbs, or even in more suburban areas of DC, I could see how people would just avoid the park for the week or month or even few months of active potty training. Where we are, everyone is in tiny apartments or little row houses. So if you're not at the park, you're literally inside a tiny home all day. We don't have any outside space to play in. Not going to a park one day is unusual. Not going two days in a row is very, very rare, and basically only happens because of illness. In my three years of parenting, I've never gone a full week without going to a park. Which means, unless you have 100% potty training success in a day or two (which is just not all that common) you [u]need[/u] a park potty solution during potty training.

At the park near us that's very toddler focused, I see a toddler use a travel potty probably an average of once a day. There's no restroom, and it's in a residential area. It's just not the end of the world. Yes, it's mostly pee, and you just dump it in the wooded area outside the playground (newsflash: animals pee in there all the time! And so do dogs!) but this particular mom is struggling with a poop issue, so it's poop. The travel potties all have little bags. You tie it up and either put it in the trash can (that's what the dog owners do) or you take it home with you. You sanitize your hands and your kids hands and you move on. You go to a little out of the way spot and go behind the stroller for some privacy. If this isn't the culture of where you are, then okay, fine, but there's real, practical reasons why this is common in a lot of neighborhoods and it's not "laziness" - it's necessary![/quote]

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