Post by asoctoberfalls on Aug 27, 2014 5:33:07 GMT -5
DS just turned 3, and I think he's ready to potty train. He wears underwear on the weekends and rarely has accidents. He enjoys using the potty and keeps asking if he can wear underwear to school. However, his daycare has a policy that they don't want them in underwear until they consistently keep their diaper dry, which he doesn't. If he's wearing a diaper, he usually won't tell us when he has to go potty...he will just go in the diaper.
Does anyone else's daycare have a similar policy? I'm sure he would eventually stop going in his diaper, but I don't want to hold him back when I feel he's ready, plus I'm sick of buying diapers.
That seems like a terrible policy. It's not uncommon for kids to continue to associate diapers (or even Pull-Ups) with using the diaper even if they're "trained" in underwear.
Our daycare handled potty training entirely; I didn't have to do anything.
What if you just sent him to school in underwear and tell them he's staying dry consistently? It's technically true -- he's staying dry, just not in diapers.
we just went through this exact situation! Our daycare does not have a set policy but her teacher in her room kept saying that she was not ready to potty train because she wasn't waking up from her nap dry. We really thought she was ready plus she was insisting on wearing undies to school.
So last Monday, after a weekend of hardcore potty training, we just sent her to school in undies. The teacher again tried to push back but we insisted they put her on the potty every 30 minutes. By the middle of the week she was waking up from her nap dry and this week she is telling everyone when she needs to go.
I was pretty annoyed with how her teacher approached it. In our circumstance, she wanted to wait until the annual transition and do a couple of the kids all at once when the older kids had moved to the next room. Which I kinda understand but dude, my kid was ready. I agree that some kids will just keep peeing in the diaper if they are in one- that how my DD is at least.
C just started the 2yo room and every time they do a diaper change they offer the potty. The kids in the room are all in various states of PT but they encourage them all to at least try.
We also noticed that our kids would not always be dry when wearing a pull-up because they knew the pull-up was there. It took 2 weekends in underwear at home for our 3 year old to get the hang of knowing when he needed to go. After the second weekend, we sent him in underwear, but they put him in a pull-up for naps. The teachers had no problems with that. He rarely has accidents now. This was about 2 months ago. Most of the class is in the same position - underwear during the day and pull-ups at nap (and bedtime at home).
oh our daycare offered the potty all the time (with DD being in diapers). The teacher just didn't think she should be in undies full time until she woke up dry.
From when he started at 2, his teachers always did diaper changes and offered the potty at the same time. DS was 100% in diapers at the time, but on day 2, he peed in the potty for the first time. Gotta love peer pressure. Not that it was consistent, but definitely a start. We did the 3-day method 5 months after he started daycare and then sent him to school in undies and lots of extra clothes. He of course had some accidents but is doing great now. We do a sticker chart at home for "perfect potty days". He's still in pull-ups at nap and overnight, which seems fairly typical for boys his age.
That's a bad policy IMO. My son keeps underwear dry but would wet a diaper or pull up when we were training. Our daycare's policy is that when parents give the go ahead, they put underwear on a kid and take him or her to the potty every hour until it "takes." Reward, song and dance, stickers for success. Usually takes a kid a couple weeks but in the 2.5-3.5 room they have extra assistants to make it possible. Kids can't move on to the 3-4 room until they are fully trained. So daycare is motivated to help get them trained.
Post by asoctoberfalls on Aug 27, 2014 8:34:30 GMT -5
It sounds like their policy does indeed suck!
They give him a chance to go on the potty often, and he does go, but he also goes in his diapers. I think if they put him in underwear full time (except nap), he would do fine.
Maybe this is something I need to push with the director. I'm not happy with how his teacher is handling it. DS tells me almost every day that he asked his teacher if he could wear underwear and she told him "not until your diaper is dry."
They give him a chance to go on the potty often, and he does go, but he also goes in his diapers. I think if they put him in underwear full time (except nap), he would do fine.
Maybe this is something I need to push with the director. I'm not happy with how his teacher is handling it. DS tells me almost every day that he asked his teacher if he could wear underwear and she told him "not until your diaper is dry."
yup, it does sound like it sucks. If your kid is doing really good on the weekends, I would just push for undies full time at school (with diapers at naptime of course). My thoughts were I am the parent and what I (and my money ) say goes.