Stress Less: Potty training in public

I typically like to address my Stress Less installments to everyone, but that one is for parents of preschoolers who are potty training. That’s considering I’ve noticed potty training tends to cause the most stress amongst my fellow parental cohorts. I’m not going to offer magic tricks for how to get your kids to use the potty. But I will aim to ease minds about doing so in public restrooms.

I actually find it strange that parents allow their kids to romp without a care on pesticide laden grass in public parks, identified as such with those handy little flags, but freak out whether their child touches anything in a public restroom. Fifty percent of American women won’t sit on a seat and they teach their kids to do the same. But in an ABC News test, the toilet turned out to be the cleanest thing in the public restroom. As the subsequent report points out, you’re not going to get germs from your behind. You’re

going to get them from your hands.

There really is little need to anguish anyway. At least not about genital herpes or HIV. But you might concern about staph infections. It’s possible to contract an infection from potty seats, but it’s not as likely as you might think. The bottom line: as faraway as you wash your hands after a trip to the bathroom, you and your kids will likely never acquire anything by way of the public potty.

Original post by Deanna Glick

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