How had nursery/childminder supported you with potty training?

I was not aware you could start potty training at 12 months . Interesting. Pls tell me more !

Hi , I’m a nursery worker and speaking from my experience we support parents a lot with potty training , I don’t know about the door situation but I know at my nursery mornings are very busy and could be due to watching the children with the ratio to children to staff , sometimes children don’t do as well at nursery with potty training then they do at home at the start but it’s just getting used to doing it in a different environment. They’ve probably done this 100x so will know what to do with your LO , if you have any concerns have you got the famly app to communicate with them throughout the day , you could always pop a message to check in to ease your anxiety x

If you’ve found that there’s certain times that he definitely will go to the toilet then maybe share that with them. If it’s as soon as he wakes up or just after his lunch or whatever it is then let them know so that them times are definitely stuck to. They’re the same as us we all wake up in the morning and go straight to the toilet so if you can let them know roughly when he goes then hopefully they can stick to it. But I’m glad to know it’s going well I’ve been holding myself back on doing it even tho I’m sure she’ll crack it and she hates having a nappy on but the thought of it stresses me out so that’s given me a push to start xx

Potty training hasn’t crossed my mind yet in all honesty! What age is this recommend from? X

The effort goes both ways. As much effort you put in that’s how much nursery will put in. I used to work in nurseries and we would have alarms on the iPads every 10-20 mins and offer children who are potty training to use the potty. Honestly and transparency is really important in this case. Ive heard of parents who were for example lazy with it or “don’t have time” there’s literally no excuse for it when there’s staff looking after up to 15 in one class and potty training all of them 😂… and the parents automatically expect just the staff to potty train

Wow! Tell me your secrets 🙏🏻 my 1 year old is no where near ready to start, he’s not even really talking yet. I have a 3 year old who we started to potty train a few months ago and we’ve struggled tbh but nursery have been brilliant, they’ve give us so much support when I’ve been pulling my hair out, she asks to go at nursery where as at home she would rather push boundaries and say no, I think she wants to copy the other kids at nursery tbh. Our nursery take the no nappy approach but then she is a toddler, I’m not sure they would take the same approach with my April 24 baby x

@Hollie about 3/4 years ago it changed for “wait till ready” to from being able to sit or sooner. Check out the Eric website for more info @Sandrina it’s ironically where you’ll be directed by a HV who will not have told you to start younger if you’re struggling down the line 🤦‍♀️ I’ve not have to really deal with it because Covid struck RIGHT as I was about to tell my childminder to start offering the potty (she was 16 months). My childminder was not really on board with my doing toilet learning so young so I got my daughter pretty reliable at home with me and then planned to branch out (I did in that we started going out nappy free). She she went to nursery just before turning two she was toilet train but not speaking so she was assigned the key person who was best with signing. My second we had sitters/a nanny so it’s less to manage and I just told them to offer potty at nappy changes or if her looked like he was doing a poo, a few of the more regular ones caught on.

@Hollie usually 2-3. Personally I wouldn’t bother with a 12 month old.

I've only just potty trained my 2.5 year old a few months ago. We tried earlier and he wasn't ready so won't be doing until after 2 with my little girl but each to their own 👍