Nothing is working !!!

[Momof4]

Putting a child on the potty every 30 minutes sounds like kind of a bad idea to me, but also how do you have time to do that? I don't bother trying to potty train at daycare until the parents tell me the child is doing great at home and interested then I try really hard too but I also insist on pullups or containment. I'm way too busy to clean up accidents here.

[Inspired by Reggio]

Putting a child on the potty every 30 minutes sounds like kind of a bad idea to me, but also how do you have time to do that?....

Ya no kidding ...

Kinda like I have always wanted to learn how to speak French and someone said 'sure I'll teach ya' but than kept coming and interrupting me every 30 minutes and said 'hey stop what your doing - come here with me we are going to spend 5 minutes learning a French word ... ok go back to your scrapbooking ... oh nope been 30 minutes I am back again stop what your doing come over here here is a new word' .... would not be long before I was saying 'umm ya screw you - I do not want to learn French anymore it is a PITA'

I know back in the 'day' it was common practice to do the 30 minute thing - this was how we trained 'toddlers' in daycare centre ... and it SUCKED cause you basically spent all day sitting on the potty, cleaning up from potty and so forth but they had to be 'trained' in order to go into the preschool room back then ... that was not potty trained that was just LUCK .... if you sit on the potty that often you are bound to have 'success' in peeing on the potty just out of sheer statistics and yes you only have 'rare accident's' but it does not mean you are TRAINED in that you know when you need to pee before hand to go to the bathroom unassisted to meet that need independently ... it means if an adult forgets to TELL you to go to the potty every 30 minutes you PEE YOUR PANTS ... and I have a four year old boy in care who is just like this - he wears underwear but if you do not SEND him to the bathroom every hour and MAKE him go pee - he pees his pants cause he has no clue how to read his 'signs before hand' that he is going to go cause this is how he was trained at home - the parent put him on the potty so much he showed 'success' so they got rid of the diapers ... but he is not 'trained' yet and same with his poop - he poops around 4pm daily and if you do not TELL him to go sit on the toilet he will poop in his pants and not tell anyone or notice?