POTTY TRAINING SEAT

TRAINING SEATS

Potty training seats are a great convenience when used properly and acknowledged by potty training toddlers. Some parents take on a best-of-all-worlds model and use a potty chair at first and then switch to a potty seat as a child becomes more advanced. Many parents today opt to using a potty training toilet seat exclusively when toilet training their child.

A potty seat is a child-sized seat that fits on top of an adult toilet, consequently eliminating any need to empty out the bowl from a potty chair which sits on the floor.

There are both advantages and disadvantages of using a toilet seat instead of a potty chair to train your child and we'll explore those distinct differences in this article.

Potty training seat pros

The most obvious advantage to using a toilet seat is the one already referred to. By having your child sit atop an adult potty, all the waste goes directly into the adult toilet. No potty chair bowl to spill, tip over, clean up, smell, etc.

Using a potty seat means you will by no means have to transition your child from using a potty chair to using the seat. He's totally at ease with the adult toilet from the get-go.

A toilet training seat is transportable. Simply put one into your car and you always have a suitable potty for your preschooler or toddler wherever an adult toilet can be found.

A potty seat time and again makes a toddler feel "big" right away, given that she's aware that the grownups only use the adult toilet. And now so does she.

Potty Training Seats – Cons

 Potty seats can have a safety issue attached to them. You'll have to make available a step stool of some sort for your child to climb up onto the training seat safely. Some children love this, but some toddlers intensely dislike this part of using a toilet seat; in fact, they're downright scared.

Potty seats can be in the way. You'll need to move it each time an adult needs to use the toilet. Of course, you'll want to leave the seat on the adult toilet when your toddler is new to training as accidents can and do happen while a child is trying to put the potty seat onto the adult toilet or wait for help.

A potty seat needs a place where your child can firmly plant his feet so he can push during bowel movements. On a potty chair, the floor provides that automatically. Sometimes the step stool doubles for this with a potty seat, but sometimes the step stool is not the right height once a child is sitting down.

A training seat mounted on top of an adult toilet doesn't work for little boys who want to stand and pee like Daddy. So think about how you want to toilet train your son before automatically reaching for a potty seat.      

The most important factor to consider is what will make your experience potty training your child go as smoothly and seamlessly as possible. Finally, the toilet training process has its share of built-in ups and downs and what you'll want most is to know that the potty chair or seat you choose does its job by being safe, comfortable and fits in with your home life comfortably.