Public potty training

I haven't even started potty training my daughter yet. She doesn't seem ready for it but she is still not 2 yet. I would never bring a potty out in public. I would take that time to try to do it in the bathroom there after they are done eat or before they eat. I would also never strip my kids down to being butt naked either not even in my own house. The only time I've done that is when I had to rush my daughter to the bathroom to get a bath when got the stomach bug and was throwing up and and stuff all over here crib.

I think that is not okay at all. I suppose potty training is quite personal, we shouldn't make it public, and most of all, it affects others. I don't think it's good to be in public, anywhere else too, not saying it's in the restaurant, while others are eating, this is really inconsiderate of the mother. Also, I don't think this is a good lecture for the child too. We should tell the children to go to the toilet to pee or poo eventually, also we need to tell them it's private. I have a friend who potty train her kids in the living room, and let them watch TV. I don't think it's good too. It will build a habit that the kids will eventually need to do some activity when they poo, this is a bad habit and is not good for their health too. The kids are 6 and 7 years old now, and they still sit on a potty and watch TV in the living room, though they already learned going to the toilet.

thats just gross. i should not be so shocked though as people are doing crazier and crazier things with their kids these days. its like most young people have no shame any more. i potty trained my 5 and 2 or 3 others i watched at times and never never would have shamed them like that. or myself.

I would have been one of the people complaining very loudly to management about the situation. Ick... This is a form of child abuse... not to mention violating health regulations. Again, ick... File this one under "people who shouldn't be parents."

Oh my! That's just crazy! I definitely wouldn't take potty training to that extreme. In fact, that's not even potty training . . . the kids need to know there is a time and place for going to the potty (it is a private thing) - and doing that in the middle of the restaurant was NOT a place or time for it! The mother also stripped the girls down to nothing and let them sit there like that in public - geez, give them some dignity for goodness sake! I don't know how that would be handled. Do you tell the people at the restaurant they need to do something about this (surely it's breaking some "code")? Do you get the cops in on this? Do you actually go up to the parents and tell them a thing or two? Geez, just what was that mom thinking????????

There is a time for everything and you can train your kid as much as you like but if it's not ready it's just a waste of time. You better show by your own behaviour (and others) that it's good to went to the toilet and give a hug/applause if they do so. I would not let my kids sit on a pot in a restaurant or at my dining table. But if they needed to go and I am on the road (and they are little) I would not mind to put them on the potty on a parking place or where ever. It's better (esp. if they say they need to go) as let them do it outside (which is not allowed over here at all). If it comes to training it's not about being in public but about the right time (kid needs to be ready). I think it's overdoing to say (complain) you can't leave the house for hours because you are training your kid. Never heard anyone say that in all those years (over 28) I am a mother.

I don't think anyone should do this....uck. In a restaurant? My kids trained at home.....not in any place public besides asking them if they needed to go when they started crossing their legs!

That is absolutely disgusting and so wrong. I cannot imagine how any mother would ever think that is ok. There is no reason for that she can do that at home if thats how she thinks you potty train your kids but no way should she ever do something like that anywhere else.

I don't think that it is right for her to do this to them in public. She literally has her children naked in the restaurant and being on a potty is quite unsanitary in a restaurant. Potty training her children in this manner does not bother me on bit if it is done in the privacy of her own home.

Potty training should be done in an appropriate place, like home. It should not be done in public, seems creating a scene.