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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How old is she and what the percentage of toilet trained to untrained in her classroom?

I agree the diaper plan seems sketch at best. [b]My experience is that a child in a diaper will go in the diaper, whether they know how to use the toilet or not. It's not weird to them because they were so recently using diapers all the time.
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But I wonder if part of what is happening is linked to toilet habits at school. It can be tricky to have a newly trained child in a classroom where all the other kids are either long trained or not trained at all, because newly trained kids generally still need more prompting and assistance until they acclimate. It can take a few days to a few weeks of frequent reminders and handholding to get them independent enough to not have accidents regularly, depending on the kid. My kid took longer than others because she is quiet and a bit intense so she'd get focused on a school activity and ignore her own signals, plus did not like approaching the teachers to ask for things. So she needed prompts 2-3x a day for about a month before the accidents totally stopped.

But she wore underwear the whole time and we just sent tons of extra clothes and made sure she went at home before school so she'd start off the day dry. I think she had one week where she had an accident daily, but we did a reset over the weekend (potty chart with new stickers, which she hadn't needed at home, some new rewards for staying dry all day, etc.) and the next week it was only 2-3 accidents and then just one the next week and the week after that. Obviously the accidents are no fun for the daycare teachers but also -- they are daycare teachers and they've seen it all.

I'd really try to talk them out of the diaper. I bet if you got rid of it completely, she'd have accidents for a bit and then acclimate.[/quote]

Not invalid, but different experience here. My DD trained at just over 2yo (in daycare) and she hated to go in a diaper or Pullup after getting a taste of potty training routine -- to the point where she was asking for underwear at night before she was physically ready to hold for 12hrs. [/quote]

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