Potty Training Question

[littlelionspreschool]

I expect parents to do most (all) of the work at home too.

Except for this past November when I had 3 ready to potty learn and 3 sets of clueless parents who could not get it together. I trained the 3 of them for ME. I didn't want to change 3 sets of diapers for another 6 months so they could mentally prepare or whatever it was they had to do. It took a week and I'm so glad I did in this case. I went from changing 20+ diapers a day back to 6-8. Woo!

I am with you on this one! It is so much easier without all the diaper changing, especially when I knew the kids were ready. The parents definitely take advantage whenever they can though (and not only with potty training!) I feel like the mom most of the time, which is probably why the kids never want to go home. ::

[CraftyMom]

I don't reward or punish with the training process (no candy, no toys, no sticker charts, no timeouts) and I dont allow underwear only until they are accident free for two weeks in my care (I dont care what they do or dont do at home).

Awesome! I was starting to think I was the only one! No books on the potty either! In my experience all the other stuff just preoccupies them. I'd have kids sitting there looking at books for 15 minutes and forget that they're supposed to be going potty. It turned into a big game. And I only support the process I do not do the bulk of the training.

However, I do encourage the process before it starts. Talking about it, letting the child watch others (who don't mind), watching for cues, etc. I will put him on the potty if he asks even if he doesn't go. But I don't do the parents' job, I don't force, I don't bribe, I don't make games. That's here, whatever the parents do at home is up to them.