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Kids get brand new personalities, it seems, when they trot off to daycare. At his “school,” my four-year-old son, Leo, puts on a snowsuit without protest, washes his hands after being asked once, and cheerily puts away his toys. He’s so not like this at home. So when the time came for potty training, it was at daycare where heBefore age three, this wilful, dreamy child had fully completed potty training.
Not only do daycare workers tend to be firmer than parents, they also worry less and rarely get riled up in matters of the toilet. “Parents need to relax,” says Vivian Turner, executive director of the Garneau University Childcare Centre in Edmonton. “There are very few adults walking around in diapers.”Persuading a toddler to first sit on the potty is no small task. Some are scared, some get mad and others are just not interested.
At Moore Place Day Care in Georgetown, Ont., staff break up the potty process into stages. First, they teach a child to pull down his own pants in the bathroom. “They have to have an understanding of what logically goes first,” says Moore Place executive director Carol Bee, adding that kids who can do this themselves save staff time. Flushing the toilet or pulling off toilet paper further helps kids feel in control of the world of the bathroom.
. If you think the relapse may be the result of something going on around her, talk to your child about it and see how you can make it easier for her to cope.“We keep a sticker chart in the bathroom, and when they sit and try to go, they get to put a sticker up themselves,” says Anne McKiel, director of the YMCA Dartmouth Childcare in Dartmouth, NS. Other daycares make a big deal when a child uses the toilet by praising him and sharing the news with the other kids.
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