Should a child transition to another class before they are potty trained?

Question

If a child needs to move to the 3yr. old class but is not potty trained should he/she be allowed to move?

Answer 1

no, that is a huge inconvience for the instructors and takes time away from the other children.

Answer 2

It depends on the situation and how far along the child is in the potty training process.
My three year old did enter a class that was potty trained even though he was not yet completely trained. He was able to use the potty on his own and wore pull-ups not diapers. He just needed a reminder to go every half hour or so until he really got the hang of it. I believe it helped him to be around other children who were completely trained.

Answer 3

It all depends on the policy at the centre. But keep in mind that if they do move up..... do they have the facilities within the room to deal with it, if they aren't.

I teach 3-5 year olds in my group, and we will take them if they aren't toilet trained... however, we do not have nappy changing facilities, so everytime a child needs to be changed it takes one staff member away from the children, sometimes for an extended period. This impacts the whole class, as often it can be at a very inconvenient time, and all the other children suffer as a result. How would you feel if the shoe was on the other foot, and it was your child who was being denied because staff were being taken away due to another child.

Answer 4

Absolutely not. By the time they are 3 yrs. old they should be able to sit on the toilet and use it. I am a preschool assistant in Cleveland, OH and in order for a 3 year old child to enter our preschool programs they must be pottie trained. We don't have time to change diapers or pull ups with all the things the state requires your child to learn. If he/she is not pottie trained keep them at home.

Answer 5

Look at it this way - if the child doesn't move, then the child gets to stay longer with a caregiver they are familar with. It is desparately bad, unbelievably harmful and cruel, to make a child switch caregivers. Human infants are biologically designed to need their mothers' arms and mothers' milk for very many years. If not momma, then they need ONE caregiver, just ONE, for all those 0 - 5 years.

children who aren't potty-trained are far too young to be away from their mothers. They shouldn't be in class. How sad. What a terrible way to grow up. Nothing about day care (please, it's not school!) is done to benefit children.

Answer 6

No, I just came from a preschool orientation today and they told me no, so I would not even try it. Maybe you could tell them that they are potty trained and when your child goes to the bathroom on them self you could just act like it was an accident. I would just pack extra clothes and let the day care deal with it because that is what you pay them for anyways. Just fake it until your child makes it.

Answer 7

if the school policy is potty training, you are stuck. 3yr olds can be trained, so just bite the bullet and do it.

Answer 8

Not if all the other 3 year old class is already potted trained!@

Answer 9

Im not saying its right...but I've seen 5 year olds wearing diapers. I think by the age of 3 they should be pt'ed.

Answer 10

Yes, only if you want him or her to be mocked. And then be mocked for the rest of his or her life. Just one mocking is all it takes. Then the start to loserville begins.