Quote Originally Posted by Crayola kiddies View Post
I wouldn't stress about it then and make then the next six weeks unbearable trying to force a kid that doesn't want to sit on your potty ...... Gee im sure in two months she can figure it out.
Yup - this would be my approach as well..... 8 weeks on one on one time with mama is LOTS of time to get her ready for school!

Personally I do not introduce 'underwear' in the training or potty learning process until the child is able to stay dry for 1.5 - 2 hours in a diaper/pull up, is able to tell me they have to GO to the potty and is MOTIVATED to go willingly ... and when we start underwear they still have to wear a containment unit over top of the underwear (plastic pant or pull up) for 2 weeks accident free both at home and in program ... they wear a diaper or pull up to nap time until they consistently wake up dry from nap time and than like someone else mentioned I put a mat under their cot for a few weeks 'just in case' after we move to underwear all day.

I think ever provider WANTS all their kids trained - it sure does make life EASIER to not have to clean up poopy diapers all day long ... however I personally do not want to be tied to a toilet all day long either nor do I want children peeing all over my home in order to 'get there faster' cause a kid is not truly READY to train and we are pushing him - hence the accidents and stress! .

IMO the difference between allowing a child to run around naked at HOME, to put your own kid on the potty every 20 minutes AT HOME or any of the other wonky things people do to try to train quicker is that at HOME you've only got one kid and training is something you do ONCE with that kid so it is not a 'way of life' for you .... as a childcare provider we have 5, 6, 8 children depending on our jurisdiction and there is ALWAYS someone who is training - training is a way of LIFE for us - so we need strategies and plans for this that work for the WHOLE GROUP and cause the least amount of stress to our way of life ... it is not sanitary to have naked children peeing or pooing on our furniture, it is not realistic to expect us to be in the bathroom every 20 minutes putting a kid on the potty and so forth.... it is not the provider is being 'lazy or supportive' in not being willing to do these things it is that these things do not WORK in our DAYCARE LIFE ... training is one of those things were as providers WE have to put a policy for training in place that works for the group and your environment and others have to 'fit into' that or keep looking for a provider who has a policy similar to yours - those rare providers who do not care if a child runs around their home naked peeing and pooping on their furniture or floors - but is sure is not me