Entry FeedI read something recently, in another mom's blog, about how no one tells you how much easier it is to travel with kids before they are toilet trained. Consider yourself told! You can pretty much change a diaper anytime, anywhere. Finding a suitable bathroom with the 3 seconds notice you get when your preschooler yells, "Mommy! I need to pee!" is often a challenge on the road.
Some kids like using different bathrooms, especially when they are toilet training. They arrive and someone's home, or a new venue, and immediately have to go pee. Of course they are just checking out the facilities, or peeing as many places as possible like a wolf marking its territory.
We have the opposite problem with Daughter. She is very particular about what toilet she will use. She was doing well with potty training, when we decided to renovate both of our bathrooms. We started with the basement one, and when that was done, we ripped out the second floor bathroom. She took one look at the new toilet in the new bathroom in the basement, announced, "That's not my potty!" and went right back into diapers.
This past winter was hard. With the boys playing so much hockey, she spent many hours in an arena. Unfortunately, most arena bathrooms do not meet Daughter's cleanliness standards.
The weird part it that she will seldom, if ever, have an accident. She has amazing bladder control! She will just hold it until she find a suitable facility.
Yesterday, we decided to go mini-putting. Daughter had to go pee, but took one look at the weird toilet in her grandparent's camper and said, "No."
She hit her ball at the first hole, and turned to me announcing, "I need to go pee."
I took her to the closest bathroom; a public bathroom located near the swimming pool. "No," she said.
Three minutes later, back at the mini-putt, again she asked to go pee. I gave her two choices - either the camper bathroom, or the pool bathroom. She choose the camper one, we walked back, and she went without complaint.
I told Husband that we are spoiling her with our two, beautiful, newly renovated (and mostly marble) bathrooms. It worries me a little, as later this summer we are going to be "roughing it" in Algonquin Park... And I don't think that where we are staying there is any running water.
Those Thunder Boxes (as they re called) in Algonquin, aren't that bad. I know of others who have pack a seat to bring with them so kids feel at home..not much roughing it but does the trick.