Over the Christmas holidays we took the plunge and made a start on potty training my DD. She was just 22 months at the time, so perhaps a bit young by a lot of people's judgement - but all went very well. After two days of her being a bit confused, and with lots of positive encouragement and praise she got the idea and hasn't looked back since. We have had no accidents of any sort at home after those first two days. If she needs to go she asks for her potty and she does everything she needs to in it.
All well and good. After the Christmas break she returned to nursery (where she goes for 4 full days a week). I explained that we had been potty training, and how well she had done. I explained how she asks for the potty and the set up at home, and I explained what the tell-tale signs usually are that a trip to the potty is due shortly (for some reason she goes a bit hyper just before a number two arrives, plus a couple of other pointers).
I was a bit disappointed, but not unduly concerned when I went to pick her up the first day and they said that she had managed to get all her wees in the potty, but that she had poo'd twice and both times in her knickers. Apparently she hadn't asked for the potty at all for these and they had not noticed her doing them. I put this down to it being a new situation and the staff and my DD getting used to the whole procedure with each other.
She has now been back a nursery for 3 weeks. We have had no accidents of any sort at home, but she has not done a single poo in a potty at nursery, and today when I picked her up I was told that she had also had one wee accident in her knickers. I'm really worried that if this continues then things may begin to deteriorate at home as well. The nursery staff don't seem at all worried, and keep reassuring me that 'she is doing really well for her age'. Maybe so, but her record at nursery is dismal compared with home and I'm starting to wonder if it is the nursery rather than my daughter that is the problem. (I'm also getting a bit fed up with picking caked on faeces out of her clothes every evening - at least if the accidents happened at home I could flick the worst out into the toilet and give them a quick rinse before the stuff set like concrete).
Does anyone have a similar experience/words of wisdom they could share?
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Successful potty training at home, but disaster at nursery
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PhDMum · 25/01/2010 20:55
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