Trained in time for Nursery?

[maxybrown]

OK, so, news to me, rhat they now can't refuse your child entry if not trained......but how about a nursery within a school? DS will start in 12 months time, he will be 3.3 and do morning OR afternoon session 5 days a week (yikes!) but wondered if it will be any different for a school nursery does anyone know please?

He is showing no signs as yet, although knows perfectly well what it is all for, understanding is brilliant etc but no interest as I said and doesn't yet tell me if he needs a wee etc. Plus his speech is very very poor and under SALT though ticking all the other boxes!! I am just starting to panic myself realising that it is now "in 12 months time"

We had this problem and ended up switching to another nursery who had no problem with helping to train him.

We got to about 4 weeks to go and he was just not getting it and it was getting stressful to have a deadline.

In the end he asked to stop using nappies about 3 weeks into attending nursery and mastered it in a week.

Although, if you've got 12 months to go then he may still manage it before then.

Nurseries that put deadlines on something like this are to me a sign that they have other deadlines for your childs development. I was glad we switched.

I have no idea about the nursery tbh, haven't checked yet, but as I said it isn't a private nursery, it is the nursery of the school he will be attending, so would want to keep him there really. The school is lovely. I usually work in primary schools, but I have worked in schools that either have no nursery or last one was a full time nursery and also they didn't take them the term after they were 3 so all the children were older anyway!! So I hadn't realised about the "new rule". When i nannied quite some years ago, my charge had to be trained for playschool.

At our pre-school, a school pre-school, they don't have to be potty trained, but prefer it if they are. you have 12 months yet, I would not even give it a 2nd thought. You may also find that when he starts pre-school as some of the other kids will be using loos/potties that he will want to copy them anyway. Many still wet themselves as they get really busy and into what they are doing, having fun and playing and it's not an issue.

My DS2 who is 3 at the end of Jan started at pre-school a couple of months after he was 2, DS1 who is 7 kind of taught him to pee standing up anyway and he wanted to copy his brother!

Wait until the Summer, when it's warmer, easier to do potty training then.

PS: what's a SALT? DS had some speech issues early on but have since resolved naturally.

Yes have every intention of waiting until the summer lol!! He will stand at the toilet now with DH, hold his top up and hold his willy but won't actually do anything! I think at the min with his lack of speech and in napies I am worried about him seeming the odd one out he is clever though, he also looks rather grown up for his age, has an old face!

SALT is speech and language therapy. He is back in a couple of weeks so see what they say about him again. He has no other isssues at all so apparently it is hard to get him into a group as they don't often get those children who can do all other things but don't talk. So she tells me. She is very nice though.