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[quote=Anonymous]I teach at a half day preschool and above the 2s class, we don’t wipe (and are, in fact, not allowed to per our licensing). We take the class to the bathroom As a group, so if I have 7 kids in the girls bathroom and all of them need help wiping, that means I would have to change gloves and then wash my hands 7 times —and while I’m doing that there would be nobody watching to make sure the other kids are washing hands and not running out of the bathroom. So they wipe themselves.

You would be surprised what kids are capable of doing at that age but have no idea how to do because parents don’t expect it of them. This includes cleaning up after themselves (throwing away their own trash, putting away toys), putting on their own shoes, putting on their own coats and hats, even washing their hands—some kids just stare at me and let the water run on their hands with no soap, no knowledge of rubbing hands together, no knowledge of how to dry hands on a paper towel...now that’s horrifying to me. There’s no way parents are asking them to wash their hands after each bathroom trip if their knowledge of hand washing is really this low! But when I get a kid who does poop at school I will talk them through the process with how much paper to get and how to check if you get a clean wipe. Even my really short students with short arms can do it. We usually tell parents “Karla popper today, you might want to check” and if my kid had a horrible accident —I’m not a monster, I’ll call someone from the office to cover my class and I’ll clean that’s kid up of course, but it detracts from my time in the classroom if I had to wipe all the kids.

Your kid is capable, op! You can teach her and she will get it eventually! But the time to start teaching is definitely now.[/quote]

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