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I think if you stick to using underwear at your house eventually the kid will want underwear at home. This is a control issue he is pulling with his mom. And this diaper time may be the only time he gets with mom and that is why he is resorting to not pottying at home.
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I would do what many pp's have said and use an outrageous amount of diapers while he's in your care. Make it cost money, money usually is a good motivator. Maybe mom will get off her bum and train this child who is more than ready!Comment
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Been that route too and mom claims he does throw a fit about having to wear diapers but she said there is no way she is going to let him continually pee on her stuff! I'm thinking it is just easier for her to put him in diapers so she is going to. The kid is vocal about NOT wanting to wear diapers.....atleast he was...but that is where I am at, I think he has just given up and even though I could put him in underwear, I feel like I shouldn't have to because the child no longer cares and mom will NOT work with me. I know it isn't fair to the child but at what point does the parent step in and take over parenting and stop allowing me to do it. If I put him in underwear and she continues with the diapers at home regardless of me or her child's objections, I just feel like I am giving in to her laziness by using the underwear here. I feel like if I use alot of diapers and make her costs go up like pp's said then maybe, just maybe she will step up and do what she should. I am just irritated by parents who let the providers parent and then sit back and reap the rewards!! I hope he goes home and pees on the kitchen rug....she just told me she got a new one!
Oh and it is 10:00 now, I have changed him 2 times since he got here....at 7:30Comment
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Teach him to take his diaper off, go in the potty on his own, and put the diaper back on. My DD wears dipes at night and sometimes gets up, takes off her jammies, pulls down the diaper like it's undies, pees, and pulls the dipe back up. It's possible. Teach him to do it. Then he can go independently at home.Hee hee! Look, I have a signature!Comment
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Nice idea.....hmmm, definitely food for thought. He CAN go and if I did put him in undies, he'd be dry with no accidents here everyday because he can. He is a smart, funny, capable and willing 3.5 yr old ...who just happens to have a very lazy parent. This is the same parent who introduced him to the paci at 2 years old because he talked too much!!!!! :confused:Comment
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i personally don't think she'll care ONE BIT if you use more diapers. she probably wouldn't even notice. we're not talking about a normal parent's perspective - we're talking about someone who WANTED her 2 year old to have a paci.
i think what might change her attitude is if you stopped worrying yourself with potty training - even though it's annoying - and let her know you're on board with keeping him in diapers. then, when people are asking her, as i'm sure they already have been, "how is potty training going?" she won't be able to say, "he uses the potty all day at daycare and wears underwear. i just put a diaper on him at night."
i dunno, JMO, but i'm the cynic who gave up on breaking kids of any habits when the parents didn't care.Comment
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I feel your pain
I had the same issue last year. Basically what I did was changed my rates for children 3 years of age and older to a the 2 yr old potty trained price. Its a $5.00 differene a day. I gave a months notice and said that any child that was 3yrs and up still in diapers would pay the potty training price. (my prices change once child is fully potty trained)
The parent that I was having the issue with all of a sudden changed her tune...
It was either that or bang my head on the wall every day trying to figure out why a parent would do this..
Good luck to you!Comment
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