What do you do if your dc doesn't want to go potty anywhere but home?

[mommyoftwo]

I've been working really hard on consistency and keeping Amelia in underwear or training pants. She's making good progress. We are up to 45-60 min intervals and she had one small accident today which she promptly told me about. In the past she hasn't cared if she was wet so that's making progress. Yesterday we went to an apple orchard about 20 minutes away. I had her go potty just before we left and tried again shortly after we arrived. She would sit on the potty but wouldn't go and kept saying she couldn't go. I took her multiple timees only to have the same thing repeated. Finally after more than two hours she peed her pants. It didn't seem to bother her at all and she was much more upset by being forced to stop playing (we were there with friends) to change her clothes than anything else. I'm pretty sure the problem was that we weren't at home because she has no problems when we are here. Any thoughts or suggestions? Also, did your child insist on stripping down completely while in the early starges of potty training? I'm just going with it because it seems pointless to try to fight it. I just let her run around in panties only while we are home. Hopefully by the time it gets really cold outside, we will be past that stage.

[MommyAllison]

Not much advice here, but when I watched 2-3 year olds in the church nursery, there were a few that *insisted* on taking everything off to go potty - even their shoes and socks! So I think thats pretty normal, though it can be a pain when they have to go *right now*! GL

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[mudder17]

It may just be the personality of the kid, but I think Kaya found it fun in the beginning to try other people's potties. Yes, most of the time she did wait until we got home to pee, but she did also go through that phase where she wanted to visit the bathrooms wherever we went (sometimes she would go, sometimes she wouldn't, sometimes she would go just a tiny bit). One thing is that she did feel like she needed to completely strip before going because I guess she felt like the clothes got in the way. But somehow, she was able to make the distinction that when we were out and about, only the pants and undies needed to come off. She has only recently hit the stage where she'll pull down her pants partway to go and then pull them back up. I think it's just them getting comfortable with the whole process.

One thing you could possibly do is have a travel potty of some kind in your car or something along those lines that is "hers" so that maybe she'll feel like it's her own special potty.


Eileen

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[JBaxter]

Nathan is like Kaya. He loves to see everyones bathrooms but gets quite upset at dressing rooms in stores because he think all stalls should contain a toilet.

It's just a phase of the potty learning process It may partly be she was having too nice of a time to stop playing. Hang in there.

[jenjenfirenjen]

We've only been doing this PT thing a few weeks but in the beginning, DS was really good about using public potties. Then an autoflush got him while he was sitting on the toilet and now he wants nothing to do with public potties. This is yet another time that a minivan really comes in handy. I keep one of our Baby Bjorn potties in the back and we just use it as needed. It's working really well for now (though I know at some point, he's going to have to use a public potty.)

[mudder17]

LOL, I forgot--DH has actually held Kaya over a urinal to pee and she did just fine. I think she found it "fun" to be like Daddy, sigh. Apparently she really needed to go and the stalls were all full. Doh!


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[mudder17]

Our neighbor's son had the same problem at his preschool. It got to the point where they had to put a towel or something over the sensor every time he went to the bathroom (which did work). Then it turned out that other kids in his preschool was having the same problem (all around 3 years old), so they disabled the automatic flushers in the preschool toilets. :)


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[californiagirl]

We let DD choose whether to wear underpants or wear a diaper. We started with when we're out, if she needs to go and doesn't, then she has to wear a diaper. Then Friday she had an accident after she refused to go in a restaurant and I thought we had time and didn't make her change. On Sunday, I went, and told her she needed to stay with me (she'd chosen to go with me and then wanted to back out) but she didn't need to sit on the potty. And then we discussed how what happened on Friday was sad, and the flush was non-scary, so she went! Hooray!