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Will day care let her wear underwear if she's not reliably trained? When we moved up rooms to where all the other kids were potty trained, the new teacher told us to just send her in panties with lots of extra clothes, and not to stress about accidents. She was 100% trained 4 days in. Peer pressure is a powerful thing.

We basically trained evenings and weekends for a month or 6 weeks. When we finally got to a point of going on short outings in underwear, we started sending her to daycare in underwear. She had accidents for the first 2 days at daycare and then it started to click and she's done really well since then.

We also waited to start at daycare until she was good with #2 on the potty. She refused for a few weeks until I caught her once when she was about to go in her underwear and put her on the potty. I think it was so novel that it caught her interest and she was good with it from then on.

This was a longer process than the 3 day method obviously, but was pretty low key and there was not a lot of drama or power struggles, a win in my book!

We went diaper free over a weekend for a final push. But daycare will also help with potty training too. They won't let you go diaper free until they are ready and pretty much trained. Completely understandable as I wouldn't want my kids to be playing around kids peeing/pooping on the floor all the time!

We did it on a 3 day weekend, and prepared daycare that Tuesday was gonna suck for them.

Day care started taking them every 1.5-2 hours. She was responding so we did panties that weekend. She was doing pretty good, minus poops. Then she wore pull ups at school but panties when at home. After a month she lost all interest so we went back to just pull ups and not taking her unless she said something. Day care still took her. She started telling us every time she went in her pull up and wanting to be changed. She also started to tell us when she needed to go which was perfect cause we had already decided over Labor Day weekend we were doing boot camp. She knew what she needed to do, when she needed to go but was using the pull ups cause they were on. We stayed home the first day and she was naked from the waist down. Then the next day we went out, she was commando for 3 days (one day at day care). Then we moved her to panties cause day care didn't like commando. But she did great, within a week, she had pooping down. She right away stayed dry during nap, so now is just in a pull up at night.

@Mrs. Carrot: We just put her in diapers to go out and went diaper free/underwear at home. We never did pullups. I know it's contrary to a lot of the advice that it is confusing for the kid, but we found that as she got it she would just stay dry in her diaper and that was when we started to know she was ready to make the switch 100%. It seemed to work well for us. For reference, we started when she was about 2y4m and she was probably fully trained by 2 and a half. Also she was def showing signs of being ready for about a few months before we trained. Also also, we used m&ms to bribe/reward her for trying and using the potty.

My girl is 2 1/2 and I cant even get her to sit on the potty seat or ring. she wants nothing to do with it. she stopped telling us when she goes. Daycare doesnt start working with them until they move into the next classroom which maybe around june. We tried the long weekend method in November and I could not even get her to sit on the seat. the 2nd day she held it from 8am-12:30 when she took a nap and 3:30-6:30 when she woke up, because she refused to sit on the seat.

What is the difference between a diaper and a pull up other than they step into it? Is it more uncomfortable than a diaper? do they realize they're wet sooner? I bought a pack on clearence at target and I'm thinking of trying it out this weekend

It was a long process for us because daycare refused to let him go in just underwear and in the beginning the pull up was treated as just another diaper.

We started out by using underwear at home in the evening for a few weeks. Then we started a reward system with gummy bears at school. Every time he went potty on the toilet and his pull up stayed dry they would let him have a gummy bear. It took a few weeks but he finally started getting it. His last week in that daycare he was finally able to go in underwear full time with minimal accidents. We started the process in April and he was in underwear full time by the end of July.

It was another 6 weeks for him to poop in the potty consistently.