We call it a “Potty Chair” or a “Potty Training Chair.” “Potty” is the diminutive/juvenile way of saying “pot,” referring (I assume) to the days when we used chamber pots. Most American children under a certain age will say they have to “go potty” (older children will say “go to the bathroom” or “take a shit” or whatever) ,and we refer to the process of teaching to use the toilet “potty training.”*
If you speak a non-American variant of English, what do you call this device? And if you speak a language other than English, what’s the device?
*I’m to understand that the term “potty training” is falling out of favor and that more-enlightened parents prefer “toilet teaching.”
I’m viewing this on a desktop computer with German installed as the system language, so I get the Amazon page displayed in German, and they call it a “Töpfchenstuhl” - which is pretty much the literal translation of “potty chair”. The word sounds plausible to me, but I wouldn’t have known what to call it if I hadn’t read it. I might have come across that word before, but I don’t remember.
We called it a training seat when we were raising our children.
And yes, it is a training process: it’s not really ‘teaching’ in the sense of intellectually learning math etc.
But I suppose you can call it teaching if you want to. I’m just a bit tired of politically correct language.
It depends on your interpretation, I suppose. But the phrase toilet ‘teaching’ just annoys me.
At that age you are not dealing with a verbal pupil/teacher interaction.
You are training a baby who has the potential to become an adult in how to acquire the necessary behaviours.
But let’s not fuss about it, it’s just a verbal nitpick. Call it what you will, no worries.
All parents do, how else would children learn languge?
Look, I just took exception to a particular phrase ‘toilet teaching’, which I thought was rather pretentious and a bit silly when ‘toilet training’ describes the process more accurately. You are dealing with a pre-verbal human at that stage.
I don’t want to get into any more discussion about this: as I said, call it what you wish.
Have a good day.
My daughter says that potties are so last century. Her two have a seat that fits over the adult-sized WCs and a lightweight step for them to climb up on.
“Teaching” instead of “training” might be new , but 30+ years ago, when my kids were young it was either "toilet training or “potty training” and I don’t remember one being much more common thatn hte other.
I’m Australian, I’d call it a potty (no ‘chair’). A lot of parents in Australia use an insert on a regular toilet instead, like the one bob_2 posted, and that’s what I used with my kids.
The learning process we call ‘toilet training’. I’m a pre-school teacher, and I think there is definitely teaching involved, but I’ve never heard ‘toilet teaching’ here. Little kids, when they need to go, usually say something like “go toilet” or “do (a) wee”.