Australia must be the only country in the world where you can drive 2,000 kilometres in a month, and see only one other party of travellers. The sense of isolation brings you together. But then we discovered a happy and unexpected side-effect. 4WD-ing makes toilet training of little ones easy. Then you park the truck, get out, get the shovel and the toilet paper and the soap and the shower hose and the towel, go to the chosen space, dig a hole with the shovel, have a bodily function, use the toilet paper, cover the hole, go back to the truck, plug in the shower hose into the bayonet fitting, switch on the water, wash the hands with the soap, dry the hands, reinstall the shovel and the toilet paper and the soap and the shower hose and the towel paper, and start up the truck.
Little children have a brain that soaks up like a sponge.
If you give them a lot to copy, they'll copy it. And being off-road, we didn't have to wait until we saw a garage. There was no time delay, so his bladder and bowels wouldn't miss the magic moment. But part of this routine is a lack of normal social restraints. You have to become a little disinhibited yourself, before you can help your child's ''bodily function''.