https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:33:38 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/potty-training-and-daycare-1#post-2550979 Wed, 18 May 2016 08:32:17 +0000 Finfan 2550979@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Carrot: oh yes, we've had DD tell us she had an accident at school and it turned out she accidentally spilled her mill so she had to get her clothes changed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/potty-training-and-daycare-1#post-2550962 Wed, 18 May 2016 08:17:40 +0000 Mrs. Carrot 2550962@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks, everyone, I appreciate the reassurance. Turned out yesterday's "accident" wasn't even an accident - she got wet playing with their water table! We'll keep on trucking. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/potty-training-and-daycare-1#post-2550858 Tue, 17 May 2016 23:28:36 +0000 lamariniere 2550858@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Charm54: this has been more or less our experience with our DD, who was potty trained 2 months ago. The daycare seems fine with it. Accidents generally occur because she's so busy/involved with an activity that she forgets to go until it's too late. </p> <p>If she's only having 1-2 accidents a day, I would not go back to pull ups. She knows what she needs to do, she just needs to figure out how to coordinate the effort better. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/potty-training-and-daycare-1#post-2550801 Tue, 17 May 2016 20:06:24 +0000 catlady 2550801@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well, we have even less experience with this than you, but our newly trained toddler had 2 accidents yesterday and 1 accident today, and our daycare told us this is better than average for a kid that was trained over the weekend. So I think your LO sounds pretty normal. I would definitely try to talk to your teachers though, just to check in. </p> <p>As for self-initiation, I've read that it can take many weeks for toddlers to really start to doing it consistently, and even then, they will still have accidents every so often. So I think at this stage, you definitely still have to remind them at home. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/potty-training-and-daycare-1#post-2550738 Tue, 17 May 2016 18:22:57 +0000 Charm54 2550738@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DD had lots of accidents at daycare when she was starting to train. Probably one a day for a week or so, then a couple times a week for a month. She'd have some dry days in there and we knew she was making progress, but she was just learning and so it wasn't a big deal , for me or daycare .</p> <p>As for the routine thing, I think that's normal with day care... My DD has been trained for 6 months and still has trouble telling me when she needs to go because at daycare it's just ingrained in their day. So I mostly do it at home too (it's lunch time, time to potty...we're going out to play, time to potty, etc) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/potty-training-and-daycare-1#post-2550733 Tue, 17 May 2016 18:14:41 +0000 JoyfulKiwi 2550733@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't potty train kids, but I have newly potty trained three-year-olds enter my classroom regularly and I think this sounds in the ranger of normal. I feel like kids aren't "ready" when they have no sense of what their body is telling them and have multiple accidents a day, every day in a row.<br /> Do you get daily sheets about her day? Can they put info on there? It may be easier to see a pattern - is it always a bm? A certain time of day?, etc </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/potty-training-and-daycare-1#post-2550728 Tue, 17 May 2016 18:08:14 +0000 Mrs. Carrot 2550728@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My almost 3 year old has been in underwear for a bit over a week. She asked herself, after months of going in pull-ups and not much interest otherwise. Overall she's done ok but I have a sense it's more because daycare takes her regularly rather than her telling them she needs to go. She will tell me/DH but it's inconsistent. Daycare has urged us to continue with it when we ask how she's doing but we don't get a lot of feedback from them on what happens. She had an accident today and we have no idea why- both teachers were gone by pickup time and no notes and she's had 2 poop accidents last week, even though we told them to give her a diaper if she's looking like she needs to poop (she's not a fan of the potty for poop and they told us they can tell when she needs to poop). </p> <p>I don't expect daycare to train her but since they're with her every day for 9 hours, I'd love more feedback and whether we're on the right track or if we need to do something different. Any ideas on what to ask for or how to approach this? I know accidents will happen but how many is too many to say she's not there yet and go back to pull-ups (and she is asking for underwear herself, which is why we're trying to capitalize on this). </p>