One concern among child care providers is potty training both a boy and girl in your daycare at the same time. We asked the OwnADaycare on Facebook members, how they feel about boys and girls in the bathroom at the same time. Our members who are also daycare owners responded to provide their opinions. Here are their thoughts. Is this an issue or a nonissue? Leave us a comment and let us know!
- How old are they? If they are 3 or under, I wouldn’t make a big deal of it unless they are starting to be curious. Anything older than three, then yes they should be apart for privacy and curiosity reasons
- I don’t worry about it till they do or about 4. Or unless the parents have an issue. There is only one me, and I am outnumbered. Once they have an issue, I am very careful to respect that.
- I don’t think it’s an issue at all. We change all of our kiddos into bathing suits in the same room. It’s not a big deal to the kids until an adult makes it a big deal.
- Under the age of 4 (unless curious) that it shouldn’t be a big deal unless the parents express a concern! When children see other children using the potty they are more willing and easier to train!
- Only my 5 year old girl potties in private, the rest all take turns and are in there at the same time. I don’t worry about the girl/boy issues. I think my 2.5 year old learned to potty by watching the others, at the time, were only girls in my dc that were potty trained.
- When my daughter was in daycare, they potty trained 4 or 5 kids at the same time. They lined up and went in one at a time but they were all right there. I didn’t even think about it. They were kids and they loved that they all did it together. I don’t think it’s a big deal until they get a bit older.
- We have an open door bathroom rule here once they are 5 they can shut the door for privacy, but until then they all go together and I want the door open to supervise so there isn’t any potty parties going on in there and I don’t want any of them locking the door either, works best to just have the door open and they all go whenever they want to, gender doesn’t matter when they are that young.
- Sometimes it’s a “monkey see monkey do” thing, I got two kids potty trained in a week because of them learning together. Some will say yay others will say nay. Do it YOUR way.
- I potty trained two girls and a boy all at the same time. It was great, they liked the star system, when they went they got a star on a chart, the one who the most stars had got a prize at the end of the week. There is nothing like competition, and one of the girls was 18months and she did great.
- I used to take all the potty training children on line at the same time and they would wait their turn to sit on the potty. Most of the time the children waiting would peak in to see what was happening in the potty and that’s fine. I actually had a little girl wanted to stand while using the potty because the boys did. At such a young age I think it’s fine. If you feel there are concerns, then teach the children how to wait on line. Put footprints by the bathroom door so they learn to stand there.
- Check your state requirements just to make sure.
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