Potty training with day to day life

Has anyone potty trained quite young hows does it work when your out and about once they are potty trained?
Do you take the potty around with you or just pop them in the normal toilet?
I’m debating start potty training from 1 1/2 she’s been walking since just before she was one and good at picking up communication sign language/ makes certain noises for different things so hoping she would soon learn to communicate she wants to toilet?

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if you feel that shes ready then it wont hurt to try, just dont be disheartened if it doesnt go to plan with her being so young. My sons 20months old tomorrow and hes shown signs of wanting to try but it is a very difficult thing to do x

Carry potty and a foldable seat for toilets were a massive help for me!

We started causally from 20 months (also an early walker). By her second birthday she was reliably day dry.

Initially we built up small trips - so we try on potty before going out, explained there were no pottys or toilets on our walk, popped to the local shop which is less than 5 mins away, and then tried again as soon as we got back. Then started going to our usual groups etc, trying before we left and as soon as we got there. Whenever we went anywhere I’d ask her to show me where the toilet was by pointing or tell me as her communication developed. Was also a case of recognising her fidgeting etc and whisking her off to try ‘you’re doing xyz, it looks like your body might be telling you to try for a wee/you’ve done several farts, sometimes that’s our body telling us that there’s a poo to come out’. So getting her to recognise her own cues as well.
We did have a travel/carry potty but she didn’t really love it or use it much - preferred a proper toilet or to hold it.

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Do you think spanking (bare handed) your child is appropriate discipline for this incident?

I do NOT want to start a online argument. But today l had the cops called on me after disciplining my 4 year old on a public beach. And l would like your opinions. Heres what happened

We played,swam... for about 4 hours prior to this. She would not leave someone else's beach toys alone after telling her multiple times no that's not ours do not touch it. If you touch it you will go into timeout. Do not touch it that's not ours. And she touched the toys. So l picked her up and started carrying her back to the our table. I held her under her arms back against me. (She was throwing her arms and legs the whole time) Maybe 50ft. There l placed her on our outdoor rug and told her she needed to stay. She got up and started back to the beach. I then picked her back up and sat her back down. She got up again and started l then did the 1 2 3's with her and told her that she needed to come back and sit on the rug. (The rug is 10ft by 10ft.) She then went over the stream/puddle and started running to the beach. I then pick her up and brought her back and then put her on the rug more stern like NO SIT DOWN. She then decided to take sticks and start forcefully poking me with them. I told her no that is not nice please stop. She kept doing it. I would take the stick she was poking me with and she would grab another. After the 3d time I told her if she kept poking me she was going to get a spanking. And she poked me again. So I stood up (I was sitting at the table she was on the rub on the ground) and gave her three spankings. My hand went about a foot and then back down. She cried for a second and then sat on the rug quietly and had her timeout.

Long story short some family was upset about it and decided to come over and tell us how we were abusing our kid and then they called the cops on me. The cops did a investigation. Watched the video the family took of me and the facility cameras and talked with several surrounding people and came to the conclusion that l was in my right of disapline standards and gave me a disordery conduct warning. Anyway do you think l disciplined my child apparently? Or do you think l abused her?

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