Fr is a super super cute little Spanish boy who is barely two years and 4 months old now. He was admitted in our group about 3 months ago and not only us but the entire staff instantly fell in love with him. His mother is also a nice lady but Cl and I had often sensed that she worries a lot regarding Fr and no matter how much she is reassured she just continues to worry.
Well, after the summer vacation, we learnt with some shock that from now on Fr won't be wearing diapers anymore. He seemed hardly capable of handling potty training as he still doesn't speak much, doesn't understand what toilet is all about and is still quite dependent in all his activities.
So since the first day of the new session we have only been changing his wet clothes the whole day long. He never tells us when he wants to pee and the mother suffers a massive heart attack every time she sees the bundle of wet clothes he produces everyday.
In addition to pee there is also the poo sometimes and while pee soaked clothes can still be handled without too much misgiving, poo laden clothes certainly cannot be. It was almost becoming impossible for us to manage the group with three new wailing children ready to escape from the classroom if you as much as blinked and remembering to take Fr frequently to the toilet and still changing his wet clothes..
Yesterday it just crossed the limits. During our morning circle time, we discovered that he had heavily soaked himself including the shoes - he had been to the toilet only about half an hour ago! Mg who is an extra teacher with us these days took him to toilet to change him when we suddenly noticed that he had also dropped several pebble like hard and stony poo pieces in the classroom!
The whole class was thrown in a great confusion and commotion! One of us had to confine the rest of the children to one corner (with great pains as they are new so they don't listen and tend to run away) while the other cleaned out only to discover that there were several more poo droppings all the way from our classroom to the toilet with many now already firmly stuck on children's or teachers's shoe soles...!
We were so fed up that we decided to give him a diaper after all. We are not here to clean one single child's poo and pee the whole day long everyday while ignoring all the other children of our group.
When his mother came to pick him up she was terribly put out. We discussed the matter with her for a long time but she couldn't understand if he can follow potty training at home why can't he in school without considering that the basic environment is totally different at both the places which makes all the differences in behavior. We sense that she is very impatient and wants quick results but potty training doesn't happen overnight. Every child is different and achieves this training at different pace. Two years is just the right age to start potty training but it is so wrong to suddenly stop giving diapers to a two year old child who has never been without them even for an hour and then expect that he will be able to hold his pee or poo till he gets a toilet chair to relieve himself as he were a 6-7 year old child.
While we were talking he again started dropping those pebbly poo pieces every where which looked like goat droppings if you know what I mean until a real bog boulder the size of an apple dropped down near our feet. I couldn't believe myself. I had myself taken him to the toilet just 15 minutes ago. I told her so and she clearly didn't believe me....She thinks and lets it appear on her face that we don't take him to toilet often enough which is why he is forced to pee in his clothes.
Well, so considering the circumstances I and Cl decided that we would give him diaper again but continue to make the toilet trips every half hour or so until he naturally understands that he has to pee only in the toilet. We shall continue to do this until we start getting dry diapers from him which will be an indication that he understands now.Of course at home he can be kept totally without diapers. She wasn't happy with this decision but we did't have any choice.
So Fr and his poo was the talk of the school the entire day. Mks had to hunt in the whole school to clean the poo pebbles to save them from travelling to other places and remarked " Hey, that boy really poops!"
Well, after the summer vacation, we learnt with some shock that from now on Fr won't be wearing diapers anymore. He seemed hardly capable of handling potty training as he still doesn't speak much, doesn't understand what toilet is all about and is still quite dependent in all his activities.
So since the first day of the new session we have only been changing his wet clothes the whole day long. He never tells us when he wants to pee and the mother suffers a massive heart attack every time she sees the bundle of wet clothes he produces everyday.
In addition to pee there is also the poo sometimes and while pee soaked clothes can still be handled without too much misgiving, poo laden clothes certainly cannot be. It was almost becoming impossible for us to manage the group with three new wailing children ready to escape from the classroom if you as much as blinked and remembering to take Fr frequently to the toilet and still changing his wet clothes..
Yesterday it just crossed the limits. During our morning circle time, we discovered that he had heavily soaked himself including the shoes - he had been to the toilet only about half an hour ago! Mg who is an extra teacher with us these days took him to toilet to change him when we suddenly noticed that he had also dropped several pebble like hard and stony poo pieces in the classroom!
The whole class was thrown in a great confusion and commotion! One of us had to confine the rest of the children to one corner (with great pains as they are new so they don't listen and tend to run away) while the other cleaned out only to discover that there were several more poo droppings all the way from our classroom to the toilet with many now already firmly stuck on children's or teachers's shoe soles...!
We were so fed up that we decided to give him a diaper after all. We are not here to clean one single child's poo and pee the whole day long everyday while ignoring all the other children of our group.
When his mother came to pick him up she was terribly put out. We discussed the matter with her for a long time but she couldn't understand if he can follow potty training at home why can't he in school without considering that the basic environment is totally different at both the places which makes all the differences in behavior. We sense that she is very impatient and wants quick results but potty training doesn't happen overnight. Every child is different and achieves this training at different pace. Two years is just the right age to start potty training but it is so wrong to suddenly stop giving diapers to a two year old child who has never been without them even for an hour and then expect that he will be able to hold his pee or poo till he gets a toilet chair to relieve himself as he were a 6-7 year old child.
While we were talking he again started dropping those pebbly poo pieces every where which looked like goat droppings if you know what I mean until a real bog boulder the size of an apple dropped down near our feet. I couldn't believe myself. I had myself taken him to the toilet just 15 minutes ago. I told her so and she clearly didn't believe me....She thinks and lets it appear on her face that we don't take him to toilet often enough which is why he is forced to pee in his clothes.
Well, so considering the circumstances I and Cl decided that we would give him diaper again but continue to make the toilet trips every half hour or so until he naturally understands that he has to pee only in the toilet. We shall continue to do this until we start getting dry diapers from him which will be an indication that he understands now.Of course at home he can be kept totally without diapers. She wasn't happy with this decision but we did't have any choice.
So Fr and his poo was the talk of the school the entire day. Mks had to hunt in the whole school to clean the poo pebbles to save them from travelling to other places and remarked " Hey, that boy really poops!"
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