My rule is pullups till I say otherwise. They get too busy and I am too busy to watch for the signs and remind them. Not fair to have to clean up that kind of mess when it isn't necessary. Parents forget that when we trained years ago we would have used the thick training pants that were about 4 layers plus had a pair of plastic pants on the child till we were pretty sure accidents had ceased. Now they jump from diapers to silky underpants and expect miracles. Does not happen.

I am just coming off a month of potty training three kids with varied results. It wasn't my idea so I went with it cause that is what parents wanted. Well they got told in the newsletter last week time is up. I am taking back control of my daycare and they have agreed cause they saw what happened. They were training the kids to tell me fine but at the least sign they wanted to go or to go because a friend went or whatever so I literaly lived in the bathroom. We never made it down to the basement playroom the entire month, never did a craft, rarely got through an entire store etc. One of them piddled every 10-15 minutes. So what if he could tell me he needed to piddle.

I have them all back in a pullup and we visit the potty regularly (30-45 minutes) based on our schedule as in before snack, before story, before going to the basement to play. A child that can not hold it for 30-45 minutes is not ready. Been only a week and already they are much more relaxed and 1 is still on target, one sometimes and the piddler well he is glad to not have to live in the bathroom too I am sure. He has produced something at each visit even if wet in between. It will come just not at the expense of our other learning.