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KT&John
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How did your daycare handle potty training?
KT&John
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I am interested to know what reward system your daycare teachers may have used for potty training.
Did they put a chart on the wall for each kiddo and give them a sticker if their pull-up was dry and two if they went?
Did they just use praise and/or do a silly dance or sing a silly song when the child has success on the potty?
I'm looking for ideas because C's teacher seems to be getting frustrated with her about #2 on the potty. The teacher will put C on the potty when she knows she has to go and then C will say "all done" and go elsewhere and go in her diaper. When I ask the teacher what she thinks would help her get through this she just says, "I don't know, I don't have kids". 
Before I flip out and lose it that this teacher has the way wrong attitude to work with this developmental age I would like to make some suggestions on what she could do to help C and the other kiddos through their potty training woes.
So just wondering what tips and tricks you may have picked up from your daycare centers when it comes to potty training?
DD- 9
DS-6
c/p- April 2016
missed m/c- 6w5d; discovered 8w2d- September 2016
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Re: How did your daycare handle potty training?
Umm--Teacher should not be getting frustrated. C is still very young for potty training, especially for #2. I would flip out if I were you. It doesn't matter that she doesn't have kids--THIS IS HER PROFESSION!!!
Our daycare does the reward system --poster on the wall with stickers and they do a big happy dance if you go. Alec is almost 3 and sits on the potty every day at daycare but does not do #1 or #2. His teacher is so laid-back about potty training that I think we will be in diapers forever. His previous teacher was a little bit more firmer about the training and she had success with him going on the potty.
I know, you are exactly right and I am a hair away from going to the bad place on this one. I think I will suggest the charts and even buy the supplies and help with making them. If she does not become more encouraging I will have to talk to the Director.
DD- 9
DS-6
c/p- April 2016
missed m/c- 6w5d; discovered 8w2d- September 2016
I was a 2 year old daycare teacher for 2 years and a 3 year old daycare teacher for 1 1/2 years before I moved onto older children....
First of all, the teacher should not be getting frustrated-- it is her profession like Maykat said... Although, at times it is frustrating, she should not show it.
Making comments to the parent as such is beyond me.. but then again, I am an enthusiastic person and act like a crazy woman around children that they WANTED to go potty for me (just so I would do all my craziness) 
Is he being trained at home? It is very hard for daycare teachers to push the issue if they are only seeing this at daycare and not at home. I will say, from experience, the children that succeeded early on at potty training (boy or girl)--- were being urged at home as well.. If the parents left it completely up to us, it doesn't go ask quickly b/c they are confused at the importance.. and we have 15 or so other children that we are trying to do the same!!
We did sing songs & dance, but I did that in general to encourage it.. and we read books about it... I put stickers on their hands or shirts everytime they went and for some reason, they LOVED it. (they got to pick out their own).. There are limitations in the GA daycare classroom as how you can reward children just as punish them.., but her attitude is NOT ok. Getting a child to go #2 is very difficult, so i went the extra mile and brought them a "surprise" the next day if they accomplished it (it made them really want to go-- everyone got something different).. Obviously you can't suggest that b/c it would be coming out of her own pocket-- I just loved doing it for the children.
This is really all I ever had to do.. I will think of other ideas for you!
Thanks Ashley for the tips!
We are training her at home and she will occasionally go #2 for us. She did it this morning in fact, so I went in to daycare and made a big deal of it to her teacher. Her teacher was clocking in and did not come around to our side of the desk and get down on Cadence's level and make a big deal. She just said, "Oh, that's good." I don't think her lack of enthusiasm is causing DD to not progress with the PTing at school, but it's not helping either.It's hard to see DD moving forward at home, but not at school.
Any tips you have would be much appreciated. Mostly I wish DD had a teacher like you who would be silly and get the kids excited about the whole thing.
DD- 9
DS-6
c/p- April 2016
missed m/c- 6w5d; discovered 8w2d- September 2016
They draw a smiley face on their hand. It used to bug me that they wrote on my kid, but now I realize it's much better b/c if they did stickers, the other kids would just take it, but this way he gets to keep his reward and he's so proud to show me his smiley faces when I pick him up!
Can you come to my daycare and do a seminar? I love your enthusiasm- this is how it should be!
It's funny that you say that because I still get calls from the 2 daycare centers I worked at wanting me to come back. =/ I feel bad because I know the children need it... And you are correct-- it is how it should be. Sad thing is, more than half the teachers working in daycare centers don't really have a 'love' for children.. it's just a job to them at the end of the day.. and I hate that. =( I saw so many teachers come and go and that's tough on children too (just as much as potty training and sleeping at school is)... I wish they had some way of ONLY hiring teachers that have a enthusiastic love and care for children....
At my school, in the 2 year olds - where they are only encouraging/starting potty training (not really the focus yet though) they did give Doodle a sticker on herself (hand, clothes, shoe...wherever she chose to put it) for pee pee and they had...get this...a "Poopy Prize" that the kids could pick from if they went poopy on the potty. The prizes were like those mini playdough containers, small stuffed animals, mini slinkies, cars, think like oriental trader/$1 section items at target. Danielle was always so excited when she would come home w/ a poopy prize. :-)
In the next class, the moved around 2 1/2 or so, one of the main focuses of that class (among academics) was potty training. There each of the 3 teachers divvied up the kids and would pretty much take their group of kids to the bathroom multiple times a day and "on demand" if/when a child had to go too. I think the doing a smaller group together helped encourage each of the kids to go. In that class they did less of the sticker/prize rewards, but they did chart it for the whole class. At our school, the kids have to be 3 years old and potty trained before they move out of that class. That's not something they tell the kids, but the parents. So the parents and the teachers are working together on it really. Oh they are also swithed to pull ups in that class and suggested that we put the kids in easy on/off clothes (not really belts, buttons, zippers etc.).
That's all i can think of right now...and honestly, I would talk to the director anyways. If this teacher is going to stay there, she really needs to realize that her attitude plays a MAJOR part in how the children will react and the parents for that matter. I think there are obviously nicer ways to have the discussion than others, but still I think it would need to be said. ;-)