Hi,
For background, my DS is 2 years 9 months and has a speech delay. At the moment there are no other indicators of SEN and his comprehension seems fine.
I’ve been considering potty training for a while but knew it would be more difficult as he couldn’t tell us he needed to go. We finally bit the bullet this week after a few nappy free days in the heat wave and honestly I couldn’t be more proud. We started Monday with a few accidents but since then there have only been 2 accidents everything else on the potty.
We are basically just keeping an eye out for his signs that he needs to go and putting him on the potty. His bladder control seems really good and he knows he’s not meant to have accidents as he will try to clean it up himself without me.
The thing is nursery have made comments about “we’d usually say wait until they’re asking to go” “it’s going to be difficult if he’s not telling us he needs to go”. I understand that, I’d love DS to be able to tell me but I don’t think that’s a reason to leave him in nappies. I’m not asking them to take him the toilet by the minutes. Just to keep at eye out for signs he needs a wee (grabbing himself, crossed legs) and take him then which would be 2/3 times over the course of his nursery day. And I know there will probably be more accidents there than at home.
Has anyone else had experience with this? Am I expecting too much of the staff?
Thank you.