Potty training 3 year old whilst working

[gbee99]

Hi, we've slowly started our 3 year old potty training using the ERIC and associated little bunny bear guide. She's been doing well at awareness but won't always sit on the potty, but I think we're nearly at a stage where we can "say goodbye to nappies" and go for it. Thing is, the way I understand it, ideally you'd need to be at home for a few days to help with that first initial stage and deal with accidents etc, but I work in the week so that just leaves weekends. I'd welcome any advice particularly from anyone who's juggled this stage with going out to work or similar. Thank you!

Who's she with in the day when you're at work?

It's a mixture of nursery (Mon, weds and Fri), and my parents on the other days

You only really need 2-3 days at home. The accidents are part of the process. Nursery will be well used to it. I would take a Friday off and commit to a 3 day weekend of it.
You don't know how it will be until you start. My first was a nightmare. Took months.
My youngest started 4 days ago (2y 8m) and has cracked wees already, which is a revelation. But not poos....

Agree with above that taking a Friday off would be good if you can. We ditched the nappies on a Friday morning and she was (mostly) dry by Monday. Nursery will be able to help too.

It’s a bank holiday weekend coming up. Do you get the bank holiday off?

Do it over the bank holiday weekend? So Saturday-Monday at home with you, get your parents on board for Tuesday (maybe at your house instead of theirs in case of accidents). That’s 4 days and then nursery should be able to take it from there.

That's really helpful, thank you all. It's good to know that it's only taken a few days for some people, but yeah maybe I'll speak to nursery about it. This weekend could be a good idea too, I was a bit unsure if it was too soon, but I think that's me and we just need to try it!

If she's really ready she should make good progress over weekend. Do it clothed so you don't go backwards then try over bank holiday ask your parents if they are happy to carry on if she's in training pants nursery should be fine with it but talk to them first.

You take annual leave

Yeah bank holiday is ideal, we did Easter for the extra day but would have been OK after 3 I think

Do it over this bank holiday weekend.

We did it in a bank holiday weekend, just sent lots of changes of clothes to nursery on the Tuesday. Do get the nursery on board before hand though.

Amazing, thank you for all your advice! I'm feeling a bit more confident that she's ready after finding out she volunteered to go on the potty twice yesterday at my parents. So I'll defo speak to nursery this week to give them a heads up.

Send more spare clothes in than you think, including socks and shoes. Nursery are used to accidents but there's nothing worse than an empty bag and a potty training child!

Great time of year to do it too.
Lots of time in the garden over the weekend, accident on the grass is less stressful than the carpet, and wet stuff can be bunging in the machine and hung out dry in no time.
Both mine trained over a long weekend.