Potty Training in Daycare

I don't think there's one certain way to do potty training at daycare. However, I do think the parents and daycare provider should talk to each other so that they are not conflicting with each other on potty messages. When my younger son was training, our daycare provider was fantastic--she was probably way more consistent than we were. She had another child training and it was just as easy to train both of them. She never asked for extra pay and even buys each trained child a package of underwear when they become a "big" boy or girl. Communicate with each other and come to an agreement is my best advice.--C.

Hi!

My old daycare lady would not help with potty training at all. I think that was terrible.

Our new daycare lady takes it upon herself which is so wonderful. When the kids are 16 months old she introduces them to the potty. My 18 month old will sit and go potty after naps and go pee pee!

I think it's something that should be discussed. You can casually ask, "how do you handle potty training"? You may want to alter how she does it, when she does it or discuss why she doesn't help with it. I don't think they should get paid extra for it.

I work in a daycare. Where I work, we have to take the children into the bathroom to change diapers. Before we change them, we sit them on the potty (as long as they are ok with it and not scared or making it known that they don't want to). They usually don't go, but it introduces it, and it helps that they see the other children doing it. It really should start at home...it works best when the parents and daycare are on the same page. They won't use the potty until they are ready, but as a daycare provider, it IS THEIR JOB to help with potty training...especially at that age.

It is the daycare providers responsibility to work with you for potty training, and no they dont get paid extra. What my daycare provider told me (she is in-home) is that when my son is ready to start, i should decide how i will go about doing it, and start on a saturday so I have the weekend to work with him at home and she will work with him while he is there during the week. We would work togeather with potty training and if one way isnt working then we could discuss a new way so that it stays consistant between home and daycare.

Hi D.. I don't think I would take the week off from work. I would definetly work with your childcare provider and get a game plan together. I work with my parents and the children, but I do not expect extra pay or anything like that. Good luck

With my son we started at home. When he woke up and before bed and on the weekends. Once we had some success at home our daycare started taking him to the bathroom. It's something you have to talk to your daycare about.

it is a partnership between the parent and the daycare. you have to work togehter to decide if you will go straight to underware or use pullups or a combination....for both of my girls, other kids were training too, so it is no big deal to sit one more little bottom on the toliet seat!! :) find out what they are doing at daycare and repeat it at home so there is consistency...

just like they teach numbers and manners, this is just something they do at daycare!

I agree the daycare is an integral part of the training. Some people say you can take a week off of work and train a child in 1 week...but what if you pick the wrong week?? Your child may not be ready yet and on top of it there will be even more pressure to train your little one and it will backfire.

With my daughter we worked with her every night to go potty before bath and also on weekends. She would sit but never had many successes. Then when she was ready at about 2 1/2 she suddenly got it like a lightbulb clicked in her head. By the end of the weekend she was going all the time. We kept a pull up on her for daycare but they took her to the potty and worked with her. Within 1 week she was wearing undies to daycare.