Potty time and mixed genders

[Inspired by Reggio]

Yes coming from 'centre based care' I do bathroom time in 'mixed genders' as well because when you have multiple children training it is just easier to have them all going at one ~ I do this until they are school age or fully trained and now requiring any assistance at all and then they make use the bathroom on own and earn the right to privacy so to speak.

I witnessed a horrible accident in centre care with a little boy peeing standing up where the seat came down and nearly took the tip of his penis off so at my house everyone pees sitting down while training ~ you have to be fully trained and tall enough to hold the seat up while still holding your penis for aim with the other hand before you are allowed to pee standing up!

I have also noticed in my years of training that if peeing standing up is introduced too early for boys it can impact their ability to master 'pooping' on the potty because they do not fully make the connection of sitting down and 'relaxing' that portion of their body in order too poop because much of the success of mastering the pooping sensation is by accident when toddlers sit down to try and pee and a poop comes as well ~ this does not happen when boys pee standing up because well the rectum instinctively 'tenses' for them to prevent that from happening. So in addition to being tall enough to hold the lid and aim to pee standing up you have to have fully mastered the pooping as well here before 'standing'.

Plus IMO peeing standing up to pee one of those things that the quote 'just because you can do something does not mean it is a good idea to do something' is intended for ~ in a perfect world no one would stand up to pee because it is MESSY and DISGUSTING having to clean up the splatter of this cause even when you can 'aim' the taller men get the more splatter occurs and drips down the fricken toilet sides and walls for whomever has to clean the bathroom ~ typically the women