Please Define Potty Trained :)

[momma2girls]

I added the above to my contract after a parent wanted me to potty train at 15 months old, and wanted me to do all of it. !!!

[temom]

This is what I have written in my contract-
I will assist with potty training, but this needs to be started at home. The child needs to be making good progress and totally understands the concept of it, before I will assist with it here. Pullups are required at all times, until totally potty trained( this means goes on their own, without assitance or reminders from myself), and be accident free for quite some time.

what do you do about parents that send pull ups way too big for the kid and they leak everywhere, n the refuse to believe the size is wrong n that maybe DC isn't changing them as often.

[momma2girls]

I would definately tell them to bring along the correct size.

[Countrygal]

If they insist he must be potty trained now, I would suggest that taking a week or two off work and starting potty training bootcamp would be ideal. If they don't want to do that, then I guess it isn't getting done.

I don't potty train -- I encourage, ask, and assist -- but I don't train. I am not invested enough to care if they are PT or not. I don't pay for the diapers, . They are the parents, they need to do the hard work of potty training. Here, I can't give one child the singular attention needed to potty train. It is unfair to the other kids and their paying parents. If they want to train, great. If not, oh well. I keep doing diapers here until I see real progress here. I don't care what the kid does at home.

I have a boy here now who is supposedly 100% trained at home. He wets like an elephant and poops and happily runs around the yard in it without telling me. So I am not buying it. I don't care. I just slap on a clean diaper and move on with my day.

This is exactly what I've done. I've had poop all over the floor, all over one of my chairs and that was ENUF! It took me 1/2 hour to clean and sanitize one day. Nope, can't go there. Isn't fair to the other kiddos.

So I've done what you do. Parents aren't too happy, but..... what can I say? They've seen the mess he left!