I hate potty training too!! lol

For myself, I will not tell the parent when to start training or start training their child here without talking to them first. They need to be working on it at home too or else my effort here is wasted. Once we have agreed to start training, I ask the parents what their approach is going to be. If it is something I am comfortable doing than I do it as well. If it's not, we talk about it and come to a plan that we both like. Both the parents and myself have to be on the same wavelength or it will just confuse the child. As annoying as it is, I have no issue potty training children with different approaches. They are not my children after all.

I prefer pullups but I know plenty of people don't. All of my parents have agreed to use them though at daycare so that is great. I take the child to the potty every hour in the beginning, when we go outside and when we are done snacks or lunch, before and after nap. Once they have done this for awhile, I cut back on me taking them as they need to learn when to go. After awhile longer of this, I ask the parents for underwear and we continue. I still put a diaper on them for nap though and for outside. I don't have a set number of days they need to be accident free but it usually works out to be about 2 weeks and then I allow them to come to daycare in underwear.

I have carpet but it's an easy to clean carpet. We have had accidents on it and it's frustrating but I clean it up, change the child and we start again. If they have 2 accidents in one day, I will normally put them in a diaper/pull up for the rest of day as I do have other children to look after. However, I haven't really had more than 2 potty training at the same time so I have been able to concentrate on that child and have altered days around training. Right now, I only have one training and she is in underwear now and the end is in sight!! She took awhile to train because she regressed for a bit and absolutely refused to go on the potty both at here and at home. We didn't push it and then one day she just started to use it again. There is the odd time (usually after nap) that she cries that she doesn't want to sit on the potty but mom said she still puts her on it. I was a bit hesitant to do this as I didn't want potty time to be a stressful time but I did what mom asked and it worked fine. I think she is just crying because she takes awhile to fully wake up.

Find what works best for you, the parents and more importantly the child and go with it!! The key to potty training is consistency in my opinion.