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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’ve got to outsource this. You should probably have a nanny anyway, given you have two young kids with special needs.

I have 2 young kids, ages 4 and 2. The 2 year old has significant delays. And we just “finished” potty training him.

I’ll tell you it’s in the top 5 hardest things I’ve ever done. But it is done.

It took 2 months. And for those 2 months, I cried almost daily. And we literally divided the day into shifts between nanny, myself, DH, and teenagers we hired from the neighborhood.

During your “shift”, the ONLY THING YOU DO is watch the kid. You don’t make food. You don’t touch your phone. You don’t go to the park. You are doing NOTHING except watching the child.

Oh and we kept him naked. And followed him around with a potty.

It was awful and hard core and expensive and miserable.

I acknowledge I am extraordinarily privileged to have been able to do this at all.

But I know, FOR CERTAIN, that this is what it was going to take and probably even more if we waited til 3. There was no way but forward.

Just saying it was hell. But you need someone to help you do it. Throw $10k at this and make it go away. [/quote]

Do you have any advice at the logistics of this? I have a 4 year old with delays and I think this is exactly what it will take to potty train him.

As in, I'd have to focus on the kid alone, no phone at all and just follow him around with a potty. I probably wouldn't be able to do this 24/7 for 2-3 months straight, so I need to figure out how to outsource it.

Would you recommend sending him to a daycare while potty training? Would daycares help with this? Or should I just hire a temporary nanny and schedule her for full time work? [/quote]

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