We recommend that children in potty training be dressed in user-friendly clothes so that they can easily pull them up and down. We will make every effort to assist in potty training when the child appears to be ready along with your efforts at home. Potty training takes a team effort of the daycare parents and the daycare provider.
We believe that a child should go through the potty training process only when they are "ready". If you try to push a child to potty train before they are ready, they sometimes fight the process and make it more difficult in the long run.
Signs that your child might be ready for potty training include:
During the potty training process, we will ask that your child continue to come to daycare in diapers. Once your child is not having accidents, verbally telling us they have to go potty and overall being successful in using the potty, then we will ask that you bring your child pull-ups to use at the daycare as well.
Please do not bring your child in pull-ups unless they are regularly & successfully using the potty. If a child uses pull-ups too early, they will just consider them "fancy diapers" and will continue to soil them as if they were diapers, which defeats the whole purpose of what a pull-up is for... which should be thought of as actual underwear.
We believe that a child should go through the potty training process only when they are "ready". If you try to push a child to potty train before they are ready, they sometimes fight the process and make it more difficult in the long run.
Signs that your child might be ready for potty training include:
- They are staying dry & clean for longer periods of time.
- They are showing interest in using the potty.
- They can verbally tell you that they have to go potty.
- They enjoy using the potty.
During the potty training process, we will ask that your child continue to come to daycare in diapers. Once your child is not having accidents, verbally telling us they have to go potty and overall being successful in using the potty, then we will ask that you bring your child pull-ups to use at the daycare as well.
Please do not bring your child in pull-ups unless they are regularly & successfully using the potty. If a child uses pull-ups too early, they will just consider them "fancy diapers" and will continue to soil them as if they were diapers, which defeats the whole purpose of what a pull-up is for... which should be thought of as actual underwear.