Dining out with kids: The potty-training debacle

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• It’s not your fault, buddy.

Parents of young children have different variations of a weekend that is ostensibly toddler spring break. There are no pants involved. There’s usually a mess involved. And several members of your party will be crying before it’s all said and done. This weekend is sometimes called a “lockdown” or the “nuclear option,” but the basic concept is that your family doesn’t leave the house for a weekend in an attempt to get your child potty-trained. Worst-case scenario: You’re back in diapers after 48 hours of frustration. Best-case scenario is like all other spring breaks: You never talk about what happened again.

But the most important part of that weekend is that this all occurs at home. I sit here without a defense of what apparently transpired in a Utah restaurant: a pair of toddlers who sat naked on potty seats in the middle of the dining room. The Consumerist has the story that went viral (courtesy of another diner’s Facebook post) after one unfortunate lunch service at the Thanksgiving Point Deli.