Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 3/10/2004 12:33:00 AM Author: Emily (emily_lanigan@yahoo.com) Subject: Almost 5 and not potty trained My boyfriend has two daughters. Emmy is going to be five this month and Elise is 3 1/2. Neither are potty trained. My boyfreind has the girls every Tuesday and Thursday evening and every other weekend including Friday evening. He's very supportive and encouraging when it comes to getting the girls to go potty on the toilet. However we have no idea what is going on when they are with their mom. Yesterday Emmy wet her pants three times in the afternoon. She often wets her pants but rearely more than once a day. When she does it is usually at time when she is having fun and doesn't want to stop to go potty. Also, it doesn't seem to bother her in the least that she is running around with wet pants. She always wears regular underpants during they day, even when with her mom. At night she wears a daiper. For a long time Emmy didn't know that the had to go potty until she had already started. She now tells us about 80 percent of the time when she has to go potty. So, I know that she knows when her bladder is full and she's gonna have to go. Elise however doesn't even seem to know that she's gone in her daiper. She's in Pull- Ups or a daiper all the time. One time in the bath she was standing up and she started peeing. She looked down and realized that she was peeing and with a big smile on her face she told me, "I'm making pee pee." It was like she didn't know it until she saw it. It would be a HUGE triumph if we could get the girls potty trained. It's a MAJOR inconvenience to chase after two pre-schoolers while carrying a daiper bag. Alos, Emmy will be starting kindergarden this comming fall and I'm worried about some of the social reprocussions. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Name: Email: Subject

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