When you are focused on potty training your child, one of the last concerns you might have is picking out a potty. But not all potty chairs are built the same way or are easy to use. Yesterday I shared some tips on choosing a potty, including safety and stability issues. Now let’s look at some other factors.
Having a potty chair that is easy to clean will make a big difference, trust me. With your little one trying to chair out several times a day, the last thing you want to do is to spend all of that time cleaning and disinfecting the potty. For an easy to clean potty chair, look for one that has a bowl that lifts out from the top, rather than from the sides or the bottom. Also make sure that the “boy piece” is easily removable as needed. Plastic is much easier to clean than wood, even though wood potty chairs may look nicer.
Finally, there are some different designs of potty chairs that you may prefer over a standard potty chair. There is the musical potty chair for example. These potty chairs either play music while the baby sits on the chair to minimize boredom and squirming, or they play music when the child actually adds a mess to the bowl, as a form of a reward system for using the potty.
Another type of potty chair is the multiple use potty chair. We had a potty chair like this. The seat lifted off to be used on the regular toilet, and the lid closed to convert the chair into a step stool for use with the regular toilet. There are pros and cons to this type of potty chair. On one hand, you have everything you need for each stage of using the potty. On the other hand, the removable seats have tendency to slip around or be lifted off and played with by a curious toddler.
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