When you feel your child is ready for toilet teaching, we ask that you begin this teaching at home during a weekend or vacation. We will follow through and encourage your child while in our care.
The child must be showing signs of readiness. When a child is ready, the process should go pretty quickly. The child must be kept in pull-ups or 5-ply training pants at all times. Putting a child in diapers part-time, and training pants part-time, can be confusing and delay responding to an urge to use the potty, more so than at your home. Therefore, we may continue to use diapers or pull-ups until your child can and will announce that he/she must use the bathroom (not just at home, but here, as well) and can control his/her bladder and bowels for a few minutes beyond that announcement.
Parents are to supply pull-ups and/or diapers that have velcro sides or tabs so that the child doesn’t have to be undressed during diapering. The child should have a couple of extra changes of clothing each day (don’t forget socks!)
During toilet training, we ask that the child be dressed in “user-friendly” clothing. The best items are shorts and pants with elastic waists or dresses. Try to avoid tight clothing , pants with snaps and zippers, and overalls. These are difficult for children to remove “in a hurry
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