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WOH mom and potty training
In article , ted says...
If you work outside home full time, when did you start potty training your child? How did it go? How did your childcare provider help you with this? Thanks. My son was in a family daycare with two providers, and they were happy to help out. He pretty much self-trained at 3 1/2. They were in no rush, in fact I was the one that felt he needed a bit more of a nudge at one point :-) One advantage of family daycare *is* the potty training situation. There's only one or two people to come up with a plan with, and the setting is small enough that kids who aren't potty trained don't get held back in "toddler rooms". Banty |
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ted wrote: If you work outside home full time, when did you start potty training your child? How did it go? How did your childcare provider help you with this? Thanks. Ah...what fun! My son was nearly 3 1/2 when he toilet trained. In a nutshell I needed to wait until he was totally ready physically and emotionally. When he did train, it didn't take any time at all....really, he knew exactly what to do and just did it. He had already been dry at night for sometime, so when he trained during the day he was fully trained. We used pull-ups only a few times when staying overnight in hotels or other people's houses. That's the short and pleasant story. The longer version is that with him being nearly 3 1/2 I was getting a bit anxious. We had tried a couple of times in the previous months which involved putting him in pants and seeing how he got on for a day. He could not have cared less. The nursery did work with him for a couple of days and then kindly told me he was not ready. Being WOH I did not have the time to stay at home with him for a week while he ran around bare bottomed. Also, it became clear quite early on that it might be something I'd get frustrated with pretty quickly which knowing the nature of my son wasn't going to be very productive. Mary Ann |
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The daycares I've worked in have always started having children on a
schedule about age 2, where they attempt to go potty every few hours (and have one available all the time). Usually most of the children didn't seem to be really trained in that they initiated going on their own and usually recognized signs until at least age 3, sometimes 4. You may want to check with your provider-if they're doing the schedule, they want children to be either in pullups or training pants that the child can take off and on, not diapers, and you will certainly want to make sure there are multiple sets of clothes there once they start any sort of training, because they're probably not going to be able to do bare bottomed training. |
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WOH mom and potty training
In article , Mary Ann Tuli says...
ted wrote: If you work outside home full time, when did you start potty training your child? How did it go? How did your childcare provider help you with this? Thanks. Ah...what fun! My son was nearly 3 1/2 when he toilet trained. In a nutshell I needed to wait until he was totally ready physically and emotionally. When he did train, it didn't take any time at all....really, he knew exactly what to do and just did it. He had already been dry at night for sometime, so when he trained during the day he was fully trained. We used pull-ups only a few times when staying overnight in hotels or other people's houses. So often I hear of the age of 3 1/2 for boys self-training that I strongly suspect that there's something developmentally going on that makes that the time when they're truly ready. Banty |
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WOH mom and potty training
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:30:22 -0500, "Donna Metler"
wrote: The daycares I've worked in have always started having children on a schedule about age 2, where they attempt to go potty every few hours (and have one available all the time). Usually most of the children didn't seem to be really trained in that they initiated going on their own and usually recognized signs until at least age 3, sometimes 4. You may want to check with your provider-if they're doing the schedule, they want children to be either in pullups or training pants that the child can take off and on, not diapers, and you will certainly want to make sure there are multiple sets of clothes there once they start any sort of training, because they're probably not going to be able to do bare bottomed training. I haven't go to this point yet (DS is almost 1), but our day care actually politely requests that you don't send pull-ups unless absolutely necessary. The handbook says that it's because it slows down the diaper changing process so much. I'm not sure what we're going to do when the time comes. DS is in daycare full-time and wears cloth diapers. Manda |
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WOH mom and potty training
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Banty wrote: So often I hear of the age of 3 1/2 for boys self-training that I strongly suspect that there's something developmentally going on that makes that the time when they're truly ready. Evan's coming up on 3 1/2 and he does seem to be physically ready and getting close to being emotionally ready. I do think he'll train very quickly once he starts. My other two trained earlier though -- my first at 3yo on my initiative took only a few days, and my second at 2 1/2 on his own initiative but with accidents for months thereafter. Robyn (mommy to Ryan 9/93 and Matthew 6/96 and Evan 3/01) -- "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." -- Theodore Roosevelt |
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WOH mom and potty training
"Mary Ann Tuli" wrote in message
The longer version is that with him being nearly 3 1/2 I was getting a bit anxious. We had tried a couple of times in the previous months which involved putting him in pants and seeing how he got on for a day. He could not have cared less. The nursery did work with him for a couple of days and then kindly told me he was not ready. Being WOH I did not have the time to stay at home with him for a week while he ran around bare bottomed. Since your son did train in a short amount of time, then he *was* ready, it didn't matter if you would have had the time to have him bear bottomed. If he wasn't ready emotionally and physically being bear bottomed or not wouldn't of mattered. -- Sue (mom to three girls) |
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-- Cadie, 19 Aries, 17.5 months "Manda" wrote in message ... On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:30:22 -0500, "Donna Metler" wrote: The daycares I've worked in have always started having children on a schedule about age 2, where they attempt to go potty every few hours (and have one available all the time). Usually most of the children didn't seem to be really trained in that they initiated going on their own and usually recognized signs until at least age 3, sometimes 4. You may want to check with your provider-if they're doing the schedule, they want children to be either in pullups or training pants that the child can take off and on, not diapers, and you will certainly want to make sure there are multiple sets of clothes there once they start any sort of training, because they're probably not going to be able to do bare bottomed training. I haven't go to this point yet (DS is almost 1), but our day care actually politely requests that you don't send pull-ups unless absolutely necessary. The handbook says that it's because it slows down the diaper changing process so much. I'm not sure what we're going to do when the time comes. DS is in daycare full-time and wears cloth diapers. Manda How exactly do pull ups slwo down the diaper changing process? LOL Aries is in the pampers easy ups, which are regular diapers, but without tabs, so they pull on. Made for babies who won't sit still for changing. It's twice as fas as regular diapers, in my opinion. Pull off pull on, no trying to fit the tabs just right... |
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WOH mom and potty training
In article X%yOc.182297$a24.32190@attbi_s03, Cadie says...
How exactly do pull ups slwo down the diaper changing process? LOL Aries is in the pampers easy ups, which are regular diapers, but without tabs, so they pull on. Made for babies who won't sit still for changing. It's twice as fas as regular diapers, in my opinion. Pull off pull on, no trying to fit the tabs just right... I recall that, especially for dirty (as opposed to just wet) pull-ups, it was a messier, slower process pulling up, getting the baby to step out, etc., than it was to change a dirty diaper with the baby or toddler laying down. Open the top, clean the bottom, then slide the thing out, with all contents caught, was a lot easier than having to get the whole thing off at once. So I found diapers a quicker change than pullups. Banty |
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WOH mom and potty training
"ted" wrote in message
om... If you work outside home full time, when did you start potty training your child? How did it go? How did your childcare provider help you with this? Thanks I work outside the home, and wondered how we'd go about this as well. I don't know if it's the right way, but it worked for us :-) DS was in preschool, with extended care hours. When we trained, DS was really resistant to it, but he was otherwise showing all the signs of readiness (physically, anyway) at about 3 1/2. I put him in underpants for a weekend and he peed in them every single time, so I put them away for a while. Then a few months later, I tried again, and he used the toilet each time with only one accident that was a timing issue. I still sent him to preschool on Monday in a pull-up, but explained to him that he should try to use the toilet, and told the teacher in his presence that he was using the toilet but would still need reminders. She gave him a timer, and showed him how to use it, so that every hour he'd go to the bathroom. He didn't pee in his pull-up all week, so the following week he went in underpants. He's had one accident at school since then ("mom, we weren't fast enough") and none at home. I was surprised when our preschool teacher said she *liked* pull-ups, for a few reasons-it minimized the mess in the classroom of course, but also gave my ds practice dressing and undressing. And since it's more work to get changed, she hoped it would give him incentive to use the potty ;-) In practice, though, they were really just diapers that got put on a different way. I don't think DS ever thought of them as underpants. Good luck! It's definitely interesting ;-) -- When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. - J. M. Barrie .. |
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