Did your child ever use a potty chair or just switch from diapers to toilet?
@beautyqueen26 (16030)
United States
June 8, 2008 4:48pm CST
When my daughter was going through potty training, we bought her the cutest potty chair. But, she refused to use it. I'm not sure why, cause it was adorable. I think it wasn't big enough or something. I can't remember.
Anyway, she was more than eager to switch from diapers to the big people toilet and skip the potty training chair. I was just as happy that she didn't use the chair, cause the clean up would have been really messy. (We used cloth diapers the first year, so I'd gone through enough messy clean-ups to last a lifetime).
Did your child use their potty chair or just prefer using the toilet, when they were potty training?
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@rrdj71 (696)
• United States
8 Jun 08
Funniest thing my 1st born did and it took her almost A YEAR before she learned. My youngest one however, was watching, I guess and she NEVER liked it so she just went straight from diapers to our toilet. Before she turned 3 she was FULLY potty trained.
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@beautyqueen26 (16030)
• United States
8 Jun 08
That is phenomenal! Mine learned quick, as well. She just took to it very naturally.
@gemini_rose (16264)
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8 Jun 08
My daughter is 2 and a half, she has a potty that she never uses. When she goes to the toilet she likes to just sit herself on the big toilet and she gets on and off herself! It is quite funny to watch her. At the minute though she only uses the toilet at the night time when I am getting her ready for bed, but it is a start though.
@beautyqueen26 (16030)
• United States
14 Jun 08
That is a phenomenal start. My little girl took a long time to
get to that point. We spent at least two years with her potty
training. I wish I could say that it happened in a couple
months. But, it didn't. She started right. And, she really tried.
But, she always struggled,
back and forth between being a baby and being growing up.
She would make progress and then backtrack. It
was just a matter of time and persistence.
And, finally she started getting the idea of what
she should do.
So, we adopted that phrase. "I'm a big kid now."
And, I would sing that to her while she was on the comode.
And, then after
awhile, she would go on the big comode and she would
sing that to herself. Now she says that over everything.
She eats her food or washes her hands and chants.
I'm a big kid now! She's a sweetie!
@gemini_rose (16264)
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14 Jun 08
You did really well, it shows your love and patience with your child.
For me I find it harder with my daughter than with my sons. With them I put them on the potty once, and that was it they were away and in pants within weeks. They were really fast, she on the other hand is resisting at all ways.
But at least she is going in the evening and sometimes in the day now when her nappy is off!
@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
8 Jun 08
My son didn't like the potty chair either. He went from diapers to underwear and was fully potty trained in roughly a week.
@beautyqueen26 (16030)
• United States
14 Jun 08
Mine just refused to use that thing.
She would sit there and smile and not do anything.
She was really trying though.
She did her best.
But, I think she couldn't identify with it.
@ravinskye (8237)
• United States
9 Jun 08
we bought a potty chair for our first one and she loved it. she used it for a little while then we bought her the seat that fits on the big potty. when her sister started to train she wasn't interested in the potty seat. once we tried to put her on the big potty like sissy, she started going alot better. I'm not sure which method we'll use with our son, he's only 10 months old lol
@beautyqueen26 (16030)
• United States
14 Jun 08
Wow! I wish mine had taken to hers. But she did not.
@Essie119 (673)
• Canada
9 Jun 08
We bought one of those small seats that fit on the regular toilet seat. The kids use a stool to get up and down. I was talking to a day care worker and she told me that some kids get attatched to their potties and then the parents have to retrain them to use the toilet. Besides, like you I didn't (and still don't) need one more disgusting thing to clean.
@beautyqueen26 (16030)
• United States
14 Jun 08
Yes, that is what I was afraid of.
Once she learns things a certain way,
it's hard to convince her that way is not
the way to do.
She just keeps at it and then has to relearn.
She struggled with the regular potty training.
Even though she would get up on there, it
was all about doing so consistently and that was
not always possible. But, she is completely
potty trained, both day and night now.
@sashashimp (115)
• United States
9 Jun 08
I am trying to potty train my daughter who is 3 and she wants nothing to do with the potty chair or the big people toilet. I want to get her trained are there any suggestions for me because i am getting frustrated with her.
@Lavender_Breeze (373)
• United States
9 Jun 08
What we ended up doing with my son was a reward system...but not a sticker chart or anything of that nature. We used the 'instant gratification' method. We bought several inexpensive small toys (in his case, he loved matchbox cars, so we bought those). We put them on a shelf in the bathroom. When he used the potty, he got a toy. Every time. But when he had an accident, he had to put one back on the shelf. He hated that. It took about 2 weeks total. Then he was good to go!
@sweetdesign (5142)
• United States
9 Jun 08
This was many years back for me (my daughter is almost 18 now) but we had bought several different potty chairs and she didn't like any of them. We ended up with the little padded insert that you put on the regular toilet and she liked that.
@lizzyt2007 (1312)
• Craig, Alaska
10 Jun 08
I am still in the potty training stage with my son. he's 4yr and never used a potty chair. I started him on a toilet and he does at home only. I try to encourge him to go to bathroom when we're out in about but he won't I just hope one day he'll surprise me when we're out and say "I have to go to bathroom".
@foxyfire33 (10005)
• United States
9 Jun 08
I didn't use a potty chair with my older three and they all did just fine. There is one here for the younger ones...not that it does any good. They do use it once in a while, I don't mind cleaning out the the pee, that's a simple as dumping and rinsing. On the rare ocassions it gets used for more than that...yuck, yuck, yuck!
@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
9 Jun 08
I bought a red turtle potty and he played with it most of the time and didn't pee/poop in it once. Then I bought a potty seat and had his father show him what to do. Didn't take him long to learn. We had a few accidents along the way but that's all part of it. He didn't like wearing pull-ups.
@steve9737 (918)
• Colombia
9 Jun 08
I don't have kids but I still remember that I used a potty chair when I was a kid, I don't remember why I liked to used it but my mom says that I rather prefer it instead a diaper, I think that I stated to used a big porcelain toiled when I was big enough to sitting on it, I agree with you that cleaning a potty chair would be very messy, I hope when I have kids they just skip the potty chair as your daughter did, it would be great if was a little toiled that would be installed int he bathroom, I would not be sure about a potty seat, it don't seen that safe like I would want for a kid.
by the way just looking online I found some different kids of potty chairs, I liked the one called "fisher-price fun to learn potty" it has a whirl that when the handle is used it make a real sound, at least that is what it says, it has too a dispenser with a roll of toilet paper, it is very similar to an adult version, it cost almost 30 dollars so it is not than expensive like I would think it would be, anyway looking in other potty chairs, I found some with sounds and technology stuff but I don't think that would help in train a kid, the one I liked was a inflatable and portable potty chair, I would be good idea for keep one in the car because you don't know when you would need one. 
@vicki2876 (5636)
• Canada
9 Jun 08
I would say that all my children did use the potty but transfered over to the actual toilet at different times. I just let them go at their own pace of when they wanted to go to the next one. My youngest and smallest child was kinda scared to do number two in the big one as he was afraid he would fall in. LOL
@lilybug (21107)
• United States
8 Jun 08
My son used a potty chair for a long time. My daughter is still in the beginning stages of potty training and she has a potty chair. Sometimes though she likes to try to use the big potty, but since she is only 16 months old she will fall in unless I hold her just right.
@beautyqueen26 (16030)
• United States
8 Jun 08
What a sweetie! Mine was at least two years old, before she really started potty training (her choice), so she was really big enough to climb up herself. She was too short to climb up onto the toilet in the front bath, so we gave her the master bath, because the toilet is so low. It's almost a kid sized toilet!
@ANTHONY0701 (1)
• United States
9 Jun 08
My daughter is 1 1/2 years old and is not ready for potty training yet. She is my first child but I expect to try the potty chair at some point. Right now she just likes to pull the toilet paper from the roll.
@mummymo (23706)
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9 Jun 08
My kids both used the potty quite quickly before starting to use the toilet! I always had the potty round them amongst their toys when they were still far too young to even know what it was just so they were used to it and it didn't frighten them - my eldest was out of nappies during the day by the time he was 1! Nights were a very different matter though! xxx
@gr8life (6251)
• Malaysia
9 Jun 08
Hello beautyqueen26,
I have a big problem right now. My son is 20 months old and he is still using a lot of diapers. I need five bags of diapers which consist of 32 pieces XXL diapers each bag. I just don't know when is the right time to train him to use potty chair. Right now, he can only use one brand which offers big enough XXL size diaper. I am afraid after this, we will find a very hard time to look for another brand. When did you start to train your daughter?
@moneyandgc (3428)
• United States
9 Jun 08
I have four children. My youngest is 2 years old but we have not started potty training at all yet. I have never bought one of those little potty chairs because I absolutely do not want to clean it out. Not only that but after teaching the kids to potty on that little plastic chair, you then have to transition them yet again to the big flushing toilet. No thanks.
I just bought one of those little seats that fit on the big toilet and they went there from the beginning. None of my kids were ever afraid of the big toilet either.
@spectrum42 (393)
• United States
9 Jun 08
My daughter uses both and seems to like having a choice. Now that she's using the regular toilet more, I could remove the potty chair, but I don't want to. It's nice to have a 2nd option in a one-bathroom house for the times when she can't hold it and someone else is using the bathroom.
@misty99 (736)
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9 Jun 08
Kids tend to emulate and do things which adults do, one of which is using the toilet. I was just like you with my second child, he get to choose the potty he wants, only to use three times. With my youngest, she goes straight to the toilet and get to play with the soap and water after-which she enjoys very much.
@Lavender_Breeze (373)
• United States
9 Jun 08
Neither of mine we interested in a potty chair. In fact, I didn't even have to TRY to potty train my daughter. She just decided one day that was the place to go and did it. Very early on, too.
My son, well, he was a tough one to train. He just didn't care to use the potty AT ALL. But when he finally did, he used the toilet, not a potty chair.
