How do you prepare for taking the potty training kid into the real world? In this episode of The Lounge, Daddy Brad and Daddy Clay tackle this parenting question. They share their thoughts on some of the things that moms and dads face when they take their children to a public place and the restroom their toddlers have to use doesn't look like the bathroom at home. DadLabs ep. 374. Brought to you by Kaboom.

Daddy Brad: Welcome back to the lounge – I’m Daddy Brad.

Daddy Clay: And I’m Daddy Clay. This week the lounge is brought to you by Kaboom scrub free – this is a refillable continuous toilet cleaning system – Kaboom.

Daddy Brad: Daddy Clay, this week is all about potty training, and potty training takes a while – it can be a long process, so during this time, you cant stay chained to the house all the time. You have to go out – it would be very boring if you stayed in!

Daddy Clay: Yes

Daddy Brad: So the question is, how do you prepare in order to minimize accidents when you go out in the real world, during the potty training period?

Daddy Clay: Because venturing out with a child that’s potty training, is basically setting yourself up for a total nightmare for yourself and for others, because accidents - are a certainty, and when they happen in public - its particularly embarrassing.

Daddy Brad: Yeah

Daddy Clay: All the public bathrooms! Well I think the first thing you’ve got to do is, you’ve got to find a way to ask the kid to use the bathroom before you go out.

Daddy Brad: Yeah! Got to go poo-poo now, got to go pee-pee now.

Daddy Clay: But it never works because as soon as you say does the kid need to use the bathroom, what’s the answer?

Daddy Brad: No!

Daddy Clay: And what’s the answer as soon as you get in the car?

Daddy Brad: I’ve got to go.

Daddy Clay: Every single time – it’s amazing! So you can say you’ve got to go poop before you leave, and they will say I don’t need to poop! Until that buckle goes click and you get out of the driveway – then that kid is turtling and they’ve got to go right now!

Daddy Brad: It’s the rumble of the engine kind of gets things going - the digestive factor.

Daddy Clay: Here’s another thing I think you have to do, which is – whatever your routine is, you have to remember that whatever your routine is in your own bathroom, is going to be replicated in the public bathroom. For example, if your daughter sings a little potty song in the house – she’s going to sing that song when you’re in the bathroom at the restaurant for everybody that’s there.

Daddy Brad: Yeah it makes sense.

Daddy Clay: I smell my poop; I see your face is very cute when it’s just the two of you in the privacy of your bathroom.

Daddy Brad: Kind of weird

Daddy Clay: So know that whatever the routine is – that’s what’s going to happen in the restaurant.

Daddy Brad: So are you telling me, you know the little potty inserts that you put on the potty because the kids will fall through unless they have the potty inserts you know? Those things you sit in there?

Daddy Clay: Ohh that’s a…

Daddy Brad: Do you carry that with you?

Daddy Clay: No way man! No way! No you cant does that! So what do you do when you’ve got the fall-in? You’ve got the big toilet!

Daddy Brad: Hello down there! It’s like the Grand Canyon!

Daddy Clay: And what do you do? Really, what do you do in public? – Do you always bring another set of clothes with you?

Daddy Brad: Absolutely!

Daddy Clay: Because what if, you’re in the bathroom and the kid drops the juice all over their clothing?

Daddy Brad: Trashcan!

Daddy Clay: In the trashcan with all the clothing, what do you do? Do you drag the naked kid through the restaurant to the pants? Or do you always take the pants with you just in case?

Daddy Brad: If it comes down to me dragging a naked kid through a restaurant, or a juiced up pair of pants, the animals are going into the can baby! Throw it away throw it away! You cant save that kind of stuff.

Daddy Clay: Yeah that’s true.

Daddy Brad: Well you could put a diaper on them but you are talking about encouraging backsliding!

Daddy Clay: Do you pick the locations that you’re going to based on the knowledge that you’ve got a potty training kit? For example, do you avoid going to the public park where the only option is absolutely the nastiest porta-potty ever conceived by the mind of man?
Daddy Brad: But you can let the kid pee outside of the park.

Daddy Clay: No but what if it’s a boy, but what if it’s a girl?

Daddy Brad: That’s interesting.

Daddy Clay: This is a different issue

Daddy Brad: Do you feel different about that?

Daddy Clay: Porta-potty - do you say “Okay honey, the kid is potty training, we cant possibly go to the national seashore where there is that porta-potty where the poop has built up into a pyramid that almost comes up to the top of the toilet”, do you know what I mean?

Daddy Brad: At the seashore?

Daddy Clay: Yeah there’s one right there and ...

Daddy Brad: You’re kidding?

Daddy Clay: There’s just a poop pyramid and it’s almost even with the seat, so do you go in there? Because you know you’ve got to take your kid in there, they’re going to take one look at that and they are going to be scarred for life, because their imagination is going to be embossed with the poop pyramid at the national seashore, and that’s all they are going to talk about for weeks.

Daddy Brad: Do they sell hot-dogs at the concession stand there?

Daddy Clay: Why would you say the word hot-dogs?

Daddy Brad: I don’t know – I’m just saying

Daddy Clay: Why would you do that? That’s just wrong!

Daddy Brad: Stuff comes in – it’s got to go out!

Daddy Clay: And that bonds in my mind hot-dog - poop pyramid, forever I’m done with hot-dogs until now.

Daddy Brad: Well you could use a few less! Well it’s an interesting, interesting question. How do you prepare - if you have a checklist of things that you do while you’re potty training, before you go out into the big world with your child, go to dadlabs.com and share that with us.

Daddy Clay: Yeah, I’ll start a forum on dadlabs.com – its like how do you prepare for taking the training kid out in the real world? Join the conversation, let us know what you think, what tips and trips you keep, from keeping up with the poop everywhere in the public place when you’re going out with that potty training kid. Hey and you sign up and we’ll hook you up with – one lucky or two lucky commentors string there, we’ll hook you up with one of these great kits Kaboom scrub free, and make sure that the toilet in your house is always much more pleasant than the one at the national seashore.

Daddy Brad: Yes!