Paying for toilet training

My DGd has started using the potty rather later than her mother or her aunt, but then I was home all the time when my two were little, whereas Dgd is in nursery 4 full days a week.
I think it was certainly easier for me, since I was at home with them all day and able to make a concerted effort for the week or so that it took.

Ive been in childcare for a long time and the way parents are bringing their children up today nothing would surprise me!!i work in pre school room and the lazy parents I deal with give us a bag of clothes to change with if they have an accident!!telling s they have potty trained them at home and they haven't wanting us to do it for free!!!

I don't think that you are being judgmental Vampirequeen & I totally agree with your last sentence , I think it's very sad for some of these poor little mites who in many cases rarely get to spend any time with their parents .Perhaps when this generation grow up they will revert to being more hands on.

I was sad to see this on "Good Morning" & then hearing that there was also a Housekeeper but no Nanny.

It reminded me of the days when children were kept in the Nursery, only brought down for an hour. Sent off to Boarding School when they were old enough. Why do some people have children or is it just another status symbol like the "flash car", some-thing else to brag about.

I only got round to doing it when elderly aunt saw my two and half year old in nappies and told me off! Hadn’t really occurred to me. He then wasn’t dry at night until husband insisted on leaving it off when child was about three. No problems. I’d been reading Penelope leach who recommended waiting for dry overnight nappies before attempting. He who knew nothing was far smarter than the baby guru!

Poor little mite, she would be better off with a full time nanny who might even like the child!

Now I am being judgmental, but I do feel that if parents discover that bringing up small children is not really something they enjoy then they should consider employing someone who does, and who can become a fixture in the child or children's lives. It would be better both for the children concerned and for their parents.

I actually think it's good that there isn't this mad rush to potty train children. I remember my mother being horrified that I wasn't potty training mine as soon as they could walk. Leave it, wait until they can make themselves understood, and it will take a week or so, and cause much less stress all round.

I too wonder why some people even want kids. Am not judging in a derogatory way, in fact I feel sorry for Mums who don’t want to be in nvolved in every little milestone along the way. Each to their own.

Vampire queen
I frequently wonder why some women want children.
Potty training is part and parcel of bringing up your child showing them how to dress them selves etc many small things that can only happen once before they are ready to start school and baby days gone for ever.I would not have wanted it any other way.



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There does seem to be an attitude that money will make life easier, one GD went off to a course of paid lessons on how to ride a bike!

Perhaps they expect babies to arrive ready house-trained!

Yes I do wonder why they have children I worked with a lady-career (and money) mad. Another colleague used to visit once a week and the children were often put to bed in their day clothes-they did take off their shoes. When the elder child started at a local (private) school she wanted the younger one at the same school too but they had to be dry. So. . . .she just sent her off with no nappy on. Gracious teacher said "she'd had a little accident-often happens early days at new school" I honestly don't know why she ever had children.

NanaK me too! A nice little earner.

I cone from the camp that had babies out of nappies by 12 months ( later at nighttime) we couldn’t wait to get them out of the napisan bucket soaking over night, washing by hand the next day, that awful napisan smell pervading routine
I don’t remember it being an over difficult thing to do and I do remember a short period of them running around when in the house with bare bums and a potty nearby
Yes a sad story for this little one I can’t believe how potty training is put off until they are two or three nowadays they wouldn’t if they used towelling nappies

Vampire queen,I laughed when I saw the heading thinking that it must be about puppy training,until I opened it and read it. Surely you should not have children if your too busy,to spend time with them and help them learn the basics. My heart goes out to the little one,all day with the housekeeper, then a complete stranger potty training her.

I got DD dry by using the "Potty training in a day" book. she was over 2 and half, the weather was good, she was out in the garden a lot. I kept topping her up with drinks she had pants on and kept wetting.

By tea time she finally got the idea of feeling a full bladder and said wee wee just as the pee began running down her legs. It worked very well. That was more or less it from then.
Obviously she still had the odd mishap, the floor of the library got a big puddle, but she had understood the connection of discomfort to needing a pee pee.

I do wonder if old style terry nappies big and bulky and wet to the bum was a big incentive to get them trained quickly.
I have heard that boys usually take longer to potty train than girls.

I do wonder why some parents have children to be honest,as they dont have the patience with them.

I see a career change coming on - takes me 'ages' to earn £500

What next I wonder.

Makes you wonder why people have children.

It seems a bit of a personal thing to enlist anyone's help with. I would rather have paid someone to take my toddler shopping.

My 3 DGC were trained very easily despite the fact that mum and dad both work full time and they have neither a nanny nor a housekeeper. Blimey some people just don't live in the real world at all do they?

Maybe a "mini-me" is the latest fashion accessory in some parts, just as long as someone else does the dirty work.

Vampire I saw a lady offering this service on TV a few weeks ago and couldn't believe my eyes she would only take bookings for a minimum of 3 days so nice work if you can get it !!
Mine where easy to train really my DD easier than the 2 boys but they where all dry within a week abet with the help of many pairs of spare pants etc.I then lifted them before I went to bed and night time became dry also with in a few weeks.
Do these mothers sit around their dinner party tables and brag which special service they have enlisted for their off springs and try and outdo each other,it just makes me wonder.

Good grief, a full time nanny would cost that much

If the child were happier, the toilet training would come easier. Does she advertise for someone to give her a goodnight cuddle too? Poor little mite,