Keeping Potty Chair in the Car

A friend had a seat that, with the way it was made, she could put a plastic shopping bag under the seat and over the bowl. Then when her daughter used the potty, she single-knot tied the bag closed so it couldn't leak and threw it in the trash when she got where they were going.

Amazon sells these bags that boys can use. When they urinate in it, it turns to gel. They come in Packages of three or six for $11.00. I forget what they Re called. Will try to find out name. They are great. Used them often when I babysat my grandsons.

On Amazon. They are called Travel John. 3/$8.25

Never heard of that one. I would pull over and let her pee on the side of the road if there was no service station nearby.

I line the potty chair with a bag and an outgrown diaper to absorb the pee. For a boy, I would just pull over and let him pee outside.

We had one of the soft potty seats that go on the big potty in a bag in our car. We carried it into the bathroom for use. I don't believe in catering to the fear.

I could not live without a potty in the trunk! My youngest has been trained for almost a year but still sometimes fails to give me much notice of her need to go. Plus, I have 2 kids in car seats and there is just no way we'd make it in to a potty if I already have them buckled in.

I don't use any special seat...just one we outgrew in the house that migrated to the trunk. We tend to use it in parking lots...like at the zoo or Sea World where the nearest bathroom is likely a hike away beyond the entrance gate (we have a minivan so I can close the doors for privacy and still have space for her to maneuver). So, dumping it in the weeds or bushes isn't an option. I keep a roll of paper towels and a stash of grocery bags with it. When she is done I stuff it full of towels to absorb, dump them into a bag, wipe it with a Lysol wipe, and tie up the bag for the next trash can we pass.

It's easy and in NO way replaces the big toilet or reinforces potty fears. For us, it's simply a necessary convenience (is that an oxymoron???). :)

Oh, and I have a tube of wet ones in one of my cup holders and usually have hand sanitizer in my purse.

I used to do keep a potty in the car. It's wonderful. It was usually just pee.

Throw it out in some bushes or something. You will find a place.

The only time I would consider doing this is if we were going to be at a park or outdoor event with no bathroom and the kid was small and being potty trained. Otherwise, you just need to figure out how to help him face his fear of the big toilet. He'll have to sooner or later, you can't take a potty chair to school.

Personally the idea of having a little potty in various rooms or the car is just gross to me. I refused to do it.
But I did find solutions to using a standard toilet.
First is to get post it notes to put over sensors on auto-flushers. Put it on before they get on the toilet and don't take it off until you are totally done and ready to leave the stall. Have the child stand behind you, by the door when you take it off.
They sell travel adapters that make the adult size opening child size. We have a great one that folds into quarters and fits in a little drawstring bag. When we're home we have adapters for the adult size toilet as well. They actually sell toilet seats that have the smaller rim attached, you just lift it up for an adult or put it down for a child.
You can get step stools that fold flat that you can use for travel if you really need something like that, though we never found we needed one when we were out even though they used one at home.

Teach him to pee standing up. Toilets aren't big and scary, when you stand. We taught my son to stand up last year, because we were taking a 15 hour car trip. It worked great.

I don't understand this carting around the potty thing. Boys do NOT have to sit!!! Another valuable reason for standing, is when they have to go NOW on a stretch where there isn't a bathroom for miles...we just pulled off the side of the road and he went.

I only had one for my girls, my boys could stand. There's a log drive between our house and the city, so it was necessary when potty training. That and one of my girls only has one kidney so, when she needs to go, holding is not a good thing.

I kept plastic bags, so that when they were done it could be tossed once home. It wasn't done often, but it was nice to have for those 'just in case moments'.

we bought this: http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3132746

Thankfully, we never needed to use it, we always made it to a rest stop in time, but it's still in our trunk just in case. I can remember having to pee in a ditch on car trips when I couldn't hold it and no one was around.

I love having the potty in the car. It definitely comes in useful when I'm by myself and my daughter needs to go. This way I don't need to take my two boys out of the car to run into a store. Usually, I pull over and find a grassy spot and just set up the potty on the grass and it goes right into the grass. I got the portable potty that is an open hole so it goes straight into the ground. If that is not an option, I use a plastic bag and try to pull over near a trash can, or throw it away once I get to a location where it can be thrown away. I get the bags that are made for the potty. It has an absorbent pad in the bottom. It doesn't collect all the pee, but it's scented so it doesn't smell too bad.

Go to a marine store, they have them with holding tanks and chemicals that help with odor. I moved my from the boat to car when the kids where younger.

We use the potty when we pull over. Any contents get put in the woods or bagged (baggies, or newspaper bags). The seat itself gets carried in a trash bag. We use wipes and lysol.