b e scary! Always get a good pee before leaving the house. Make it
part of the leaving ritual. In the early days, build in enough time so
you have some wiggle room to get that pee before you leave.
• Have Post-its in your purse to cover the automatic flusher.
• Bring the potty chair in the car so your child has the option to use it in the car if
she is freaked out by public restrooms.
• Also carry a foldable insert with you in a ziplock for reducing public toilet seats.
• If your child is freaked out upon entering a public restroom, abandon the mission.
Offer the car potty chair. Do not push this.
• Always show your child where the restroom is, in both public places and friends’
houses.
• At events like parties, be vigilant. Excitement, sugar, and more fluids than usual
mean you need to be on high alert. (But don’t be that psycho mom, okay?)
• If your child can hold it till he gets home and there are no accidents, that’s
awesome. Many adults won’t pee or poop outside their own homes, either.
• Bring a spare change of clothes. Keep some extras in the car with some baggies.
Accidents can happen to anyone.
• Make peeing upon arrival and/or upon leaving part of your routine.Block Four: Peeing and Pooping on the Potty with
Underpants On
You are more than welcome to try undies at any point in time.
Undies fit snug around the same muscles as diapers and can activate
the muscle memory to just pee.
• If the first day of undies brings on a lot of accidents where there were none, it’s cool
to hold off a bit more.
• Undies are a great natural consequence. If the child wets them, they must go back
to commando as a learning tool, but this can be motivating to the child, so use it.
• Buy a size up so the undies are not as snug as the diaper was.