John Curley


Too much? Mom potty trains kids in restaurant

BY Josh Kerns  on September 6, 2012 @ 6:38 am (Updated: 11:16 am - 10/3/12 )

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This picture of a mom potty training her child in the middle of a restaurant has set off an Internet firestorm. (Image courtesy KSL TV)
Most parents are pretty tolerant when it comes to others struggles with their own kids. But a Utah mom who spotted another mom potty training her children in the middle of a restaurant says this case is just too much.

"She had two twins, two little girls about two-and-a-half years old, sitting on what I thought were booster seats,' Kimberly Decker told KSL TV in Salt Lake City.

They weren't. After doing a double-take, Decker says she realized the kids were sitting on portable toilets.

"She had to undo the jumpsuits, and take them all the way down so they were completely nude, with the jumpsuits down to their ankles just eating their chicken nuggets, sitting on little toddler potties," Decker said.

A firestorm ensued after Decker posted pictures of the unidentified woman on her Facebook page.

"The more you thought about it, the more unappetizing everything looked around me," Decker said. "I was like 'This is not OK, we're eating.' There was a business meeting with about five or six businessmen going on right next to me."

Decker says she's a parent of three herself and can relate, but this was just too much.

But KIRO host John Curley says we should cut the woman some slack.

"It's so extra hard to be a mom with twins that you almost feel like, you know what I need to operate on a different set of standards than anyone else."

While he's never potty trained his kids in a restaurant, Curley admits to traveling with portable toilets in his own car in case one of his own young children had to go.

"I'd have a red one and a blue one in the car. So they would sit on it and just do their business. And I was always praying it was number one not number two," Curley recounts.

Curley says he would then dump the portable toilet out of his car, then run it over to destroy the evidence.

"Let me say this. It's a little tiny kid, so it's not that much number two."

Josh Kerns, MyNorthwest.com Reporter
Josh Kerns is co-host of KIRO Radio's Seattle Sounds (Saturday nights 7-8) and a digital content producer for MyNorthwest.com.
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  • Kief Sloberman wrote...
    In-N-Out Burger
    September 6, 2012 7:19 am
    no doubt.
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  • R L M 456 wrote...
    Josh Kerns
    September 6, 2012 4:42 pm
    Isn't passing around pictures of underage kids

    Child Porn ????

    nice Job of journalism

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  • cg5611 wrote...
    food and feces
    September 6, 2012 7:22 am
    do not mix. This woman needs some serious parenting classes. I am a twin and I know we were a challenge to our mom. Potty training is an at home project, while traveling I understand it's a challenge but seriously are parents so self centered they can't for go a few outings so their child can perhaps get thru the challenge of potty training in private. and did Curley seriously admit to littering?
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  • T Pense wrote...
    your brat is NOT the center of the universe!!!!!
    September 6, 2012 7:26 am
    I hate these parents who 'baby talk' at drill sergeant volume in an otherwise quiet room; or the ones that let their little 'Damiens' run wild in supermarkets and doctors' offices.
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  • cabanaboy wrote...
    A Public Health Risk
    September 6, 2012 8:29 am
    An e-coli outbreak just waiting to happen.
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  • delicate flower wrote...
    Mom potty trains kids
    September 6, 2012 8:42 am
    The people in the restaurant must be as clueless as this hapless, disgusting mom. I would have been all over that family, big time, but if confrontation is not your style you should have loudly and immediately demanded that the manager deal with it. Oh. And John Curley is a comedian. He is just having his way with you.
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  • sghouse wrote...
    I'd have told the manager
    September 6, 2012 9:07 am
    either they go or I go but we're not both eating in this establishment.

    Oh, and John Curley, you are not funny, please go away.

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  • Stevebo wrote...
    I can't envision a universe where this would be acceptible.
    September 6, 2012 9:28 am
    Potty training is a private matter, not a public one.

    Especially when it's in a restaurant where other people are eating.

    Instead of being passive aggressive and taking a picture of it, someone should have been confronting the mother and/or the management of the establishment.

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  • cobain501 wrote...
    who cares
    September 6, 2012 10:01 am
    its a 2 year old kid. Let the business worry about what the patrons do. if they don't like it, they can tell her to stop. as a customer your only recourse is to eat somewhere else. So just can it already. its so old hearing people complain about everything these days.
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  • kcandjc00 wrote...
    Kids Should Not Be Allowed in Restaraunts!!!
    September 6, 2012 10:18 am
    This is why the only place I dine is in the bar/lounge area where there are no screaming, pooping and crying kids. Disgusting
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  • shark75 wrote...
    sghouse wrote... on Jon Curley
    September 6, 2012 10:36 am
    Don't you have bigger fish to fry than John Curley? Say...Ron & Don? Their show is worse than whatever ended up in the bottom of the toddy potties...
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  • sghouse wrote...
    You got me there
    September 6, 2012 11:25 am
    R&D are certainly flushable along with Curley. I don't listen to either of their shows. I only mentioned Curley as he was quoted in the story.
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