School, Week 3 (Montessori Potty Training)
So week 3 of school has come and gone without a hitch except for the nap disruption. (Yes, it is nap time right now and, yes, J is not happy about that.) F doesn’t even make a pretense of saying goodbye to me in the morning, she just plunges into the classroom. J still wants me to say goodbye but then he trots off happily and starts his day.
They have started with the potty training. When J and F get there in the morning the Directress and her assistants sit them down and help them take off their outside shoes, socks and pants. I send them to school in cotton underwear with cloth diaper covers over them so next they remove the diaper covers. Then each child pulls down the underwear, goes to the bathroom which has a toddler sized flush toilet and sits on the toilet. The bag of “clothes to wash and return” at the end of each day has several wet pairs of underwear per child so they are on their way. The school puts them in pull-ups for the trip home and then I keep them in cloth diapers during the afternoon.
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February 29th, 2008 10:41
Reading this post and then seeing the previous one was “shitty day” I was expecting it to be different. ;+) F and J are being trained the way my mom recommended. My house is entirely carpeted, though, and so I just put Reid on the potty whenever I went or once an hour if I were vigilant and that worked. I bet the Montessori folks have a routine, too. Good luck with the potty training and the other challenges, too.
March 1st, 2008 01:33
I am agog at attempting to potty train 2 under 2. I wish this was remotely inour future, but I’ve a feeling D will be in diapers for at least another year.
I love that J & F are digging the preschool
March 1st, 2008 06:31
sounds like a great routine - how often does the school take them to the potty ?