Potty chair

A potty chair, or simply a potty, is a proportionately small chair or enclosure with an opening for seating very young children in order for them to urinate and defecate ("go potty").^[1][2] Potty chairs are a variant of the close stool, which were commonly used by adults before the widespread adoption of water flush toilets. There are a variety of potty chair designs. One type of potty chair, placed directly over the toilet, is called a "toilet training deat" and allows ejected fecal material from a young child to drop directly into the toilet bowl, therefore eliminating manual removal and disposal of the said waste from a receptacle beneath the hole, which is often a bag or receptacle similar to a chamber pot. Potty chairs are typically used during the potty training, also known as toilet training, of toddlers.

A young child sits on a potty chair.

Ancient Greek potty chair.

Usage of potty chairs greatly varies across cultures.^[3]

Potty chairs have been used to toilet train toddlers as far back as sixth-century ancient Greece; a clay potty chair from that time period was once discovered in the Ancient Agora of Athens, and potty chair images can be seen in red figure pottery iconography.^[4][5]