I don't have a written policy on potty training but when each child gets to that stage I have a discussion with the parents. I think it's best for the child to have a consistent approach to it so if the parents have a plan in mind and I am okay with it, I approach it their way. Many times the parents say they don't have a plan so I suggest what I think will work best from experience and we go from there. One main rule I have is that a child needs to be accident free at daycare for 2 weeks before I will consider letting them come in just underwear. They also have to be able to tell me they need to go to washroom and they must be able to pull down and up their clothing with very minimal help from me. The parents know that they are to send multiple change of clothes during this stage. If I send 3 wet pants home I expect 3 clean pairs the next day to replace.
I have a dresser that each child has a drawer in. Their diapers, wipes, creams and extra clothes all go in here. I let the parents know when and what they need to replenish a few days ahead of time so they have time to run out and buy some. I have almost always had parents just send the whole sleeve of diapers at once. If they run out of diapers I have also borrowed from another child and replaced when they brought diapers. This very rarely happens though. If a parent were to consistently not have enough diapers for their child I would do the same as torontokids and call for pick up. It's not up to me or the other parents to be supplying diapers.
I have had a child not have a spare pair of pants here and I just let him run around with just a diaper and texted the parents to let them know they would need to bring a pair to go home in and also a couple pairs for the drawer. I sometimes have spare clothes here but at that time I had no pants and just a skirt lol. There was another time it happened to the same child and I just put him in the skirt and his parents brought pants at pick up lol.

































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