OT: Potty Training & Daycare - long

[CampbellScot]

As many people have said, you need to get your dd out of those pull ups. They are diapers without tape and more difficult to change!

At your daughters age she should be heading towards being potty trained, but there is no "absolute" age. I'm shocked that your dd's teacher hasn't been more helpful. I do know that some daycare centers have regulations about kids past a certain age being potty trained. Some of it is health code related. But the teacher should try to be on board with things. You need to have a training plan in place though so she can follow through at school.

My husband and I stayed home one weekend and potty trained my step son. He was TWO. He'd begun telling us he had to go just before he'd go in his diaper so we knew he was ready. We flooded him with juice...(well it was more water than juice, but he liked it) and we put him on the potty every fifteen minutes. He wet through every pair of undies he had the first day. He didn't believe us when we said he had to potty IN the potty and not his undies. Every time he would wet his pants we'd go through the whole process of getting the bath ready, getting all the stuff out (wash cloths, soap etc)...having him help clean whatever he got wet besides himself...really dragged it all out and the whole time he was in his wet undies. He HATED that. He also hated that he had about 7 baths in one day. By the middle of day two he was down to no undies at all since he wet them all...he didn't like not having no undies on at all. We kept up with the juice and every fifteen minutes on the potty...and finally he just started going in and plunking himself on the potty. It just clicked with him all of a sudden. He knew we weren't kidding. He had lost the battle and was ready to accept the new rules and that was that. When we found him on the potty for the first time we threw a HUGE party!!! confetti and stickers and party hats...the whole deal. He was thrilled. We've never looked back.

It's not simple for everyone but it's a mix between mom being firm, not going back to diapers, lots of positive praise and some well timed bribery! Dr. Phil is right about finding their currency.

You can do it. You just have to strengthen your resolve, remember you are in charge and stick to it.

Good luck!!!

 

[daisyduck123]

We potty trained my DD in one night.
She was almost 3.

One evening, we tossed the diapers, put underpants on her, & told her that's all she would be wearing from now on. She wet herself once that evening, & then NEVER again. She hated the feeling of being wet.

(She was also dry at night from then on...don't know how that happened).

Maybe if your DD has to sit around for a while in wet underpants, she would realize, "Oh, this is not fun"??

 

[SalandJeff]

jcc0621 - sent you a pm

 

[kevschickee]

pull ups are just diapers. I actually did a paper on them for school (im a preschool teacher) They dont help the child feel uncomfy when they go to the bathroom. I say use real undies and let her feel it

 

[alikat99]

I completely agree that each child has their "currency" when it comes to potty-training. I tried everything that others suggested with my 2yo like M&Ms, stickers, candy, toys, etc. Nothing worked, until I realized that she LOVES coins!! So, I just put a bunch of pennies, nickels, dimes & quarters in a cup and she got one for just sitting on the potty and trying, 2 coins for going pee and 5 for going poop. Well, it didn't take very long of just getting 1 penny that she did it on a regular basis. And now, it's been about a month, and overall her only accidents are when she's at home and gets wrapped up in other things. And now, I only give her the coins if she remembers to ask for them after going.

Oh, and one more thing about the licensing, it really does depend on the state and the type of facility. We're in Florida, and our DDs school is strictly a preschool, not a daycare facility. I heard the director talking to someone about the potty-training (someone was signing up their child for the fall and they weren't PT yet) and she said that they must be potty-trained because they don't have the licensing for changing diapers. So, they are required that ALL students are potty-trained before being starting school.

 

[bgirl29]

Hang in there, I know it can be tough. All 3 of my children were around 31/2 before they were potty trained. With my oldest daughter we tried stickers, rewards, running around naked and nothing worked. She would sit on her potty seat because she wanted to but nothing ever happened. Finally I decided to try reverse psychology with her. I told her I was sick of trying to get her to go potty on the potty, and I put everything away. Put her back in diapers, hid the potty seat and told her she could just keep on wearing diapers. If she didnt care then neither did I. Well just a few minutes later she starts asking for the potty seat. I told her no that she could just go in her diaper because I didnt believe her. My sister was over and I secretly told her to get the potty seat out, well my sister put the potty seat back in the bathroom, and in goes my daughter and does her thing. The next time she went it was on the regular potty and that was it. No more accidents, no more potty seats. It was just a matter of my daughter had to want to do it all for herself.