Potty Trained Checklist Form

[Pepperth]

Hi,
I work in a preschool room, where he children are required to be potty trained. I often find people enroll saying their kids are potty trained, but their definition of potty-trained differs from mine. Like their kids are not remotely interested in using the potty, and we have to change multple pullups a day because they are unable to take pants off, etc. We are not equipped to change children. Our general policy is children should be potty-trained, but accidents are forgiven. We are willing to help children with changing accidents once they try first. I am toying with the idea of finding or creating a check-list at enrollment into this room of things that indicated potty readiness that parents initial. Does anybody use/have a form like this? Or if you did, what would you put on it?

[Cat Herder]

It sounds like it may be too late for that. They are already getting what they wanted. They won't care that you are having to change their kid.

A policy that moves the kid back to a more expensive room, that caters to diaper changes until they reach standards, would be more efficient.

[Momboss]

The first thing i would do is before enrolling telling the parents you dont allow pullups in the classroom as that would indicate a child that is not fully potty trained.
if you have parent teacher conferences, i would talk about how you noticed the daily accidents and that perhaps their child may not be ready for preschool.

these are things my sons preschool does.

[Blackcat31]

Hi,
I work in a preschool room, where he children are required to be potty trained. I often find people enroll saying their kids are potty trained, but their definition of potty-trained differs from mine. Like their kids are not remotely interested in using the potty, and we have to change multple pullups a day because they are unable to take pants off, etc. We are not equipped to change children. Our general policy is children should be potty-trained, but accidents are forgiven. We are willing to help children with changing accidents once they try first. I am toying with the idea of finding or creating a check-list at enrollment into this room of things that indicated potty readiness that parents initial. Does anybody use/have a form like this? Or if you did, what would you put on it?

I use this:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8_...5am8ykZFIzvdog

[PB&J]

We used something pretty similar to Blackcat’s to describe potty trainING. As far as potty trainED, we said it’s when the kids stay dry all day, on their own, including dressing and washing their hands. We told the parents that we give everyone random reminder prompts as a group and before outdoor and naps….but that if a child needed an adult to stay dry and clean, then they weren’t potty trainED, and they would stay in the higher-priced room in pull-ups until then. We did make sure everyone knew we would help with the occasional tricky button or even accident, but occasional didn’t mean daily or even weekly. It was all in our handbook and a potty training letter.