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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can see why some people might think that a policy of having kids toilet trained might sound punitive but seriously, folks, these are three year olds.  Unless they have some physical or social problems there is NO REASON why a three year old shouldn't be toilet trained.  I imagine that schools have this policy to encourage lazy parents to train their kids.

Our son will be the youngest in his class (birthday end of September) but he's been toilet trained for over a year now.  And at night time for more than six months.  He was not "advanced" in any way.  The reason he was potty trained "early" is because we, as parents, made an effort to actually train him before he turned two.  We did it in three days and have never used pull-ups.  There is no reason why the rest of you can't do this!  (Though I do agree that wiping skills take some practice).[/quote]

This is the OP.  OK, well telling us now that we are crappy parents by not doing this a year ago is MOST helpful.  A parent of mine just died and its been a hard year with his illness with tons and tons of travelling.  But please, go ahead and continue judging.  [/quote]

I'm sorry that you've had a hard year.  I'm not telling you that you should have done this a year ago -- though I do want to put forward the opinion that your child likely would have been ready at that point -- rather I wanted to encourage you that potty training is really not that difficult.  It just takes some perseverance, really only for a few days on the whole (and that means taking a day or two off work and watching like a hawk), and getting rid of those pull-ups.  If you keep using pull-ups the child gets mixed signals about what he/she is meant to be doing.  Using pull-ups just prolongs the process.[/quote]

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