Happy Daycare Handbook

Our Potty Training Policy

 Congratulations on entering the exciting world of potty-training your child! Here at A Happy Daycare we have many years of experience potty-training children and we are happy to help your child achieve potty success. We make potty training a daily part of your child’s schedule so that in no time at all it becomes a happy habit. The most important part of potty training is to always make it a positive experience for the child.  
This is the potty training policy of A Happy Daycare. It is non- negotiable.
We will start your child by wearing pull-ups and taking him/her to the potty through out the day. We will encourage him/her and make it a very positive experience. Our goal in the beginning is to get your child into the habit of going on the toilet. Under no circumstance will your child wear only underwear to school until he is accident free for at least two weeks during the day here.  Accident free means no wet or messy pull-ups during the whole day. The reason for this policy is not because we are being mean but it is a health issue. The health department does not allow children to pee out or soil their surroundings when other children are in the same area. This policy is set up to maintain infection control standards for the childcare setting. It only takes a few minutes for a child with wet or messy clothes to completely cover the room in wet spots.  Because other children are present here we have to have higher standards than a parent would at home. Most importantly a child that is repeatedly allowed to pee or poop in his/her underwear will become desensitized to the purpose of wearing the underwear in the first place which is to go on the potty. The child becomes confused and does not see a clear cut difference between underwear and a diaper if he/she is allowed to pee or poop in either.
In the potty-training process your child will learn to achieve these goals:  

• To be able to make it to the potty before having an accident
• To be able to pull down pants and pull them back up without assistance.
• To be able to get on and off the potty.
• To be able to wipe self after using the toilet.
• To be able to wash and dry hands.

We do not clean out soiled underwear. We will bag pee soaked underwear and return it to the parent at the end of the day. If the underwear is soiled we do not rinse them out.  We don’t do laundry of any soaked or soiled clothes. They are bagged, put outside, and returned to the parents at the end of the day. In the beginning don’t expect the same performance here as at home. Some children potty train first here and some children potty train at home first. This is a perfectly normal part of the process. The most important thing is that we work together as a team to make this as stress free as possible for us and for the child. In no time at all we will turn around and the child will be running to the potty on his/her own and never give it a second thought. That is success!
 

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