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The seat where toddlers learn power: the whole family celebrates your bodily functions.
means A small toilet (or training seat) for young children learning to use the bathroom — also British slang for 'crazy' or 'trivial.'
from Two separate stories tangled in one word. 'Potty' as toilet-talk comes straight from 'pot' — the chamber pot families kept under the bed before indoor plumbing, shrunk down to toddler scale. 'Potty' meaning crazy or silly is British slang from the early 1900s, origin genuinely unclear — possibly linked to the idea of something small, trifling, or 'not worth a pot,' but no one's fully certain. Both senses got adopted by generations of parents, which is how a word can mean both 'bathroom furniture' and 'off your rocker' without anyone finding that strange.
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- Entire sticker economies exist to reward basic biology.
- etymology
- Shortened from pot, as in chamber pot.
- british twist
- In the UK potty also means crazy.
- training myth
- Readiness matters more than age for success.