Oh Crap method with training underwear at daycare

[Anonymous]

I want to start the Oh Crap potty training method next weekend. It advises against training underwear, but my daycare provider is asking for my child to wear it. How have others navigated this?

[Anonymous]

Hold off a couple weeks til Thanksgiving. Do it when your kid isn’t at daycare for a few days and you can be home. Then at daycare do loose fitting shorts not underwear. They’ll be fine with that , they just want her privates covered up.

[Anonymous]

It won't work if your daycare isn't committed to letting your kid go commando after. Talk to them about it. Ours was okay as long as my child wore pants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It won't work if your daycare isn't committed to letting your kid go commando after. Talk to them about it. Ours was okay as long as my child wore pants.

I should add -- as an alternative, you might try a more gradual approach. Introduce pull-ups, have the child try sitting on the potty. Oh Crap makes it sound like that method is the only one that will work, but I've had several kids and have found that there are lots of ways that will work. Oh Crap worked well for my first, so I'm not knocking it; it's just not the only way to do it.

[Anonymous]

While keeping privates covered is an issue at daycare it is also about keeping the group care environment free of pee and poop in the play and eating areas.

[Anonymous]

How old is your child?

At 22 months, when we trained our son, training pants or pull ups would have set him back in the beginning. Maybe an older kid would get it.

[Anonymous]

My daughter’s daycare asked that we send her in with regular underwear. They said the thicker training underwear feels more like diapers and will lead to more accidents.

We got regular underwear as a result. We had a rough couple of weeks, but after that she was basically all done day training. That was when she was about 2.5. Then at about 3.5 she stopped needing pull ups at night. That part required no training on our part.

[Anonymous]

We did oh crap but mostly ignored the no underwear rule bc daycare wouldn't allow it. It made no difference, DD was quickly potty trained at 26m and never seemed to have the underwear/diaper "confusion" that the book goes on and on about!

[Anonymous]

We did Oh Crap but used pull-ups when we needed to (travel, restaurants, etc.) - my kids did fine and there was no confusion about diapers. We called them "outdoor underwear" and took them to the restroom regularly, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It won't work if your daycare isn't committed to letting your kid go commando after. Talk to them about it. Ours was okay as long as my child wore pants.

Ours discouraged the going commando thing and it was fine. We did the three day thing and then sent her on Monday in underwear. A few accidents the first week but after that barely any.

I think the author of Oh Crap is a little rigid- it was not necessary to follow her word for word even though she seems to think it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It won't work if your daycare isn't committed to letting your kid go commando after. Talk to them about it. Ours was okay as long as my child wore pants.

Ours discouraged the going commando thing and it was fine. We did the three day thing and then sent her on Monday in underwear. A few accidents the first week but after that barely any.

I think the author of Oh Crap is a little rigid- it was not necessary to follow her word for word even though she seems to think it is.

Yeah we used a hybrid approach- pant less at home but training pants at daycare. They have a different strategy anyway- I think they take the kids to the potty at regular intervals. It was fine, the important thing is that your provider is supportive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It won't work if your daycare isn't committed to letting your kid go commando after. Talk to them about it. Ours was okay as long as my child wore pants.

Ours discouraged the going commando thing and it was fine. We did the three day thing and then sent her on Monday in underwear. A few accidents the first week but after that barely any.

I think the author of Oh Crap is a little rigid- it was not necessary to follow her word for word even though she seems to think it is.

+1. Know your kid, we also did undies after a long weekend and it was totally fine. If your daycare provider is supportive, it will work out with or without the commando stage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want to start the Oh Crap potty training method next weekend. It advises against training underwear, but my daycare provider is asking for my child to wear it. How have others navigated this?

It's not a method for people using daycare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to start the Oh Crap potty training method next weekend. It advises against training underwear, but my daycare provider is asking for my child to wear it. How have others navigated this?

It's not a method for people using daycare.

+100

You don't want your Larla stepping or getting into Larlo's crap or pee. That's unhygienic and can't imagine a daycare really being OK with this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to start the Oh Crap potty training method next weekend. It advises against training underwear, but my daycare provider is asking for my child to wear it. How have others navigated this?

It's not a method for people using daycare.

We did it successfully at daycare. I did it over a long weekend and then we started at daycare commando, which they okayed. It worked well for us.