The child can use the toilet after standing. Some parents may decide to skip the step of training potty and instead have their child move straight to the toilet when they think their toddler is ready. That will make cleaning up easier, however also will increase the time that make your child to get toilet trained. Using a potty or toilet seat are toilet training products and a part of the toilet training process for toddler training.
Toilet training seats and the potty chairs are the tools that help the child go to by themselves. See advantages and disadvantages of the toilet training seats and potty chairs below.
Advantages of a Toilet Training Seat
- No need to clean up afterwards, just need to flush
- They learn to sit on the toilet from the start.
- Fixed seats are stable and have less chance of coming loose.
- Kids get used to being on the toilet from the start, and the process of washing hands in the basin and wiping from the toilet roll.
Disadvantages of a Toilet Training Seat
- Only use within in the home
- Your child may not be able to climb on and off the seat by themselves initially
- If there is a rush and the seat is not on, accidents can happen
- Going straight to the toilet use can lengthen toilet training in certain case
These are the disadvantages of choosing a potty chair instead of a potty seat for potty training your toddler.
Disadvantages of the potty chairs
- Regular dumping, need to cleanup every time after child use the potty chairs. Dumping is swiftly followed by cleaning, in readiness for the next time use.
- Takes extra bathroom space. As opposed to potty seats which are positioned on top of the existing toilet seat, potty chairs are placed on the bathroom floor. People with small bathrooms will therefore find potty seats to be a better alternative compared to potty chairs.
- Potty training may takes longer. After successfully using a potty chair, a kid will still need to learn how to use a standard toilet.
Advantage of the potty chairs
- Kids may more prefer to use the potty chair, because most potty chair has various shapes that kids will see that the same way as they see toys and will most likely be eager and look forward to using it. This aspect alone can make potty training so much easier and fast.
- Potty chairs have a very wide base that in direct contact with the floor making them very sturdy. This greatly reduces kids toppling over and hurting themselves.
- Easily accessible. Potty chairs are always ready to be used and place at the bathroom that kids simply walk in the bathroom and use them without any hustle.
Parents can choose one of them for toilet training process of their children according to their needs.