My favorite tip for kids who have to go to the bathroom when there isn’t one
I got a text message from a friend last week about the horrors of having her recently potty-trained son pee in a cup while driving because there was nowhere to pull over. While this wouldn’t have helped her at the time, it reminded me of my very favorite tip for kids who need to use the bathroom when there isn’t one.
Keep a cheap potty chair in your car along with a few diapers. If your child needs to go to the bathroom, open a diaper and put it in the bottom of the potty chair. When he is done, wrap up the diaper and done. No mess.
It is so simple and yet it is seriously genius. I don’t even know where I originally heard it, but it stuck in my head. I’ve only had to do this twice, but I was so happy to have everything I needed and no mess to clean up!
Ahh!!! That’s such a great idea! And sometimes the public restrooms are a worse option than having no option at all. Thanks for sharing!
Totally true about public bathrooms!
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Such a great idea with the diaper! We’ve used the potty chair on long trips, but the process of dumping it, spraying it with disinfectant and wiping it out is just not fun!
Hello Sarah!
I am about to start potty training my son and I am so delighted to have stumbled upon this trick. Pure genius!
We put coffee filters in the bottom of the potty chair. Cheaper than diapers and just as much an easy cleanup.
Interesting! Doesn’t it go through the filter?
In the past, we kept a small potty and a bottle of water to rinse after.
This is honestly the most environmentally irresponsible solution I have ever seen. I think it would worth an analysis why is it an issue that “you don’t want to deal with”.
This is a part of our everyday life, and you just have to bring a little bit of water and cleaning tissue, done.
So what exactly do you do with the deposit, then? Dump it on the side of the road so it’s someone else’s problem?
Isn’t it technically the same as using a diaper before potty training? Do you not believe in diapers at all….?
Well that’s what u have done when your child wore a diaper anyway!
If you use cloth diapers, put an insert in the potty and a plastic bag. Wash as usual. No need to be condemning.
Sorry, that comment was for ZsigiP.
For emergencies….its not that serious. If you are too high and mighty don’t do it.
When I need to go to the bathroom, I’m a adult so I find the closest dumpster. I take off my clothes. I sit in the dump but I don’t know actually said I have floating set so I I call my clothes, but I don’t take off my shoes and When I’m done I put back on my clothes and I get I was a dumpster and it takes 31 seconds for me to get done and after I’m done, I close up the dumpster. Nobody will notice I get back in my car. Make sure everything’s safe and I’m then I get buckled And that’s it. I’m done well it’s because getting in my car takes 39 seconds so that’s why I get a little extra time and and make sure they’re privacy so I can go. I like my kids so it’s done goodbye.
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Did you actually read the whole thing? She has only done it twice, not every time her kid has to go potty.
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When my baby need to go to the bathroom and pee, are you at the dumpster like my son but this is a girl so I can’t do the same thing that I grab a bag I pulled out her onesie take off your diaper and I’m at the dumpster so I will pull up her arms in her legs and she’s gonna go in the bathroom and when she’s done, I tie up the bag. I make sure the baby doesn’t fall and get hurt I make sure onesie put up I put on a new diaper because she pooped in that diaper. Also, I put down her leg. I hold her. I get back in the car in her car seat and that’s it.
Every toilet trying child has a ‘right now’ emergency. I once stopped next to a garbage can, supported my LO by holding her under her knees and with my forearms under her arm pits, I held a plastic grocery bag under her bottom while she pooped in it, when she was done I tied up the bag and dropped it into the garbage can.
That’s a good idea
Wow, my daughter when she needs to go to the bathroom are you the poor toilet
In other countries using a trash for child to “go” is fine. As for environmental issues on the diaper thing…. Yea I guess but this is hack for emergencies not a every day thing (I think)
Like previous comments I don’t think it’s necessary to use a diaper in a potty. Common sense here. A little bottle a water to clean the pees (no don’t need to sanitize the thing like you are going to perform an open heart surgery in it, it’s just pee people) and then for poos usually put a little soap but since our daughter poos are solid it usually is not very hard to clean. Then when I’m home, once a day (before going to bed) I put water and soap to sit overnight and in the morning rinse off. VOILA!
Really no need to send yet another disposable diaper to the landfill. I’m already strongly against disposable diapers; I managed to exclusively cloth diaper through our daughters life so far (26 months). We’ve also use the Elimination Communication Technic so we been using a potty and, mostly, the toilet. If you really can’t deal with a potty and think that it’s “so unsanitary” well why don’t you just use a regular toilet. If you don’t have a portable toilet seat like us you can just hold baby above the toilet by the legs (squatting position) and you flush down the toilet. Clean.
Cloth diaper = NO POO EXPLOSION!!!!
Elimination Communication = No clean up + less diapers + early potty trained out of diapers!
Disposable diapers are a big waste for the environment and for you wallet. Lets be smart about them. – And if you really really can wrap your head on how easy they are you should look at Hybrid. At least the covers are not thrown away; it’s 1/3 least the waste.
And Elimination Communication/Early potty training is great. Everyone should try it. Imagine the when you see the potty in the toilet and you know you won’t have to clean that bum. That was an amazing feeling. Bonus they think that babies that do elimination communication have good confident in themselves; no proven but I do believe that it can only bring good to the child.
2. Your child is 2 years old. After reaching 24 months aka 2 years old there is no reason to count by months.
Congratulations.
My son had a “have to go right now” emergency. I had him squat over a plastic bag and asked him to lift the bag by the handles while he did his thing. Then I threw a disposable diaper straight into the trash just to pi$$ of the anti-disposable diaper users out there.
so for my toddler, I can do the same thing for my baby and she sits in the car seat too, so it can be safe. I ride on the van or sometimes not my husband I in the car, but when my toddler need to go to the bathroom, pee and poop, I bad before take off her diaper. I pull down her pants or shorts or skirts. Well, I have a bag for either even both.T I grabbed my Out of the car seat I grab a bag I go to the dumpster. I take off your diaper. I take off her skirt. There was a skirt so. when she’s done, I will try to pull up her pants put up put on a new diaper so that’s it and then I get it back in the car. The baby gets back in her car seat about the color up. And then I did Into the car I bubble up I turn on the car and close the door old car works and then I’m done goodbye one more thing that was a skirt so goodbye now And it only takes two minutes that’s a lot right guys. Well goodbye actually now,
Why do you not just let them go in there pull-ups
Tried that, he didn’t want to use it. In the end he did a couple of times on our road trip right after potty training.
on another trip like 6 months later we used a cheap potty but in the van
but you are so worried about it spilling all over the diaper hack would have been perfect!
You can take a potable potty with you and it works awesome it come with 100 bag with the potable potty
It is just $20.99 to get one
And my son will I pull up to th the closest dumpster and I put on a short or pants and I grab a disposable Walmart bag and when he’s done wait before he’s done I pull up his arms and his legs when he’s done I tie up the bag and I throw the bag in the dumpster
You know what? We are still using diapers when we were out when our son was young as a back up/safety net so I’d do that on long car journeys etc so you don’t need to worry. Out in public – you could take your potty and there are portable potties you can buy which are easier to carry. I’m glad anywhere I go, I saw a portable toilet to clean up.
What the site to order this potty please