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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would you want to keep a child in diapers until they are 2.5 or 3?  Unless the child has a medical reason for late potty training or they are special needs just do it.  Believe me your daycare providers will thank you.[/quote]

Or not. Our daycare provider (25 years' experience running a toddler/young 2s class) discouraged our attempts to train before 2. In her experience, early potty training was more about "parent training" (to take the kid to the potty on a very set schedule and to watch for their cues) than about "child training" (awareness of need to go and ability to control the urge until on the potty). This is not to say that parent-training has no advantages, especially if you want to be done with diapers, but she found that those kids still had tons of accidents until they made it to the "child training" phase. In a daycare setting where she was responsible for three kids, she preferred they be in diapers until they were reliably aware/in control of their urges.[/quote]

Agree--in fact, I have heard of daycares insisting the kid stay in diapers (or at least pull-ups) when there is even a very occasional accident.  [/quote]

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