Toilet training
7 articles
Toilet Training and Daycare: How to Coordinate
Toilet training is one of the few developmental milestones where home and daycare have to operate as a single team. If your daycare puts your child on...
What Happens if Your Child Regresses at Daycare
A 3-year-old who has been reliably dry for four months suddenly has three accidents in a week — the same week she started a new daycare classroom. Par...
How Daycare Staff Support Toilet Training
Most American children master daytime toileting somewhere between 24 and 36 months, with the AAP noting that pushing children before signs of readines...
Skill Regression During Daycare Adaptation: Why It Happens and What to Do
The same Monday a child starts daycare, the toilet skill they had nailed for four months goes wobbly. The night sleep that had finally settled gets br...
Skill Regression During the Adaptation Period
A two-and-a-half-year-old who has been reliably dry for four months suddenly has three accidents in a week. A chatty toddler who used to narrate every...
Nighttime vs. Daytime Toilet Training While in Daycare
Daytime potty training and nighttime dryness look like the same skill but they aren't. They run on different biology, on different timelines, and a 3-...
Soiling in Children: Understanding Encopresis and How to Help
Soiling is one of the most distressing — and least talked-about — problems in childhood. Parents are embarrassed. Children are deeply ashamed. Teacher...