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: 4/13/2006 12:40:00 AM Author: mosquito - from Australia Subject: some help for you Forget about it for a couple of weeks - don't say anything to him about it. Then in a few weeks time, start saying how smart he is and what a big boy he is becoming... then gently bring in the idea that nappies aren't for big boys (because they don't make them) they're for babies. And that maybe he could start doing wees on the toilet soon. Don't push or pressure him (or even bribe him). Every few days bring up the idea again. Continue to discuss it with him and ask him what he would like to get whenever he does a wee on the toilet (let him decide to use the potty or toilet) whether it be a sticker or a stamp. Maybe he could help you to make a sticker or stamp chart and after he does 10 wees he gets something else like an icecream from the icecream shop etc. Don't mention the school idea to him until he has the toileting under control and even then start it slowly (the same way as the toileting)- just some gentle suggestions while playing with some toys etc. When you do take him see if you can stay in the room for the first couple of times or only have him there for a couple of hours a day. If possible, draw pictures with him of things that you like or things you don't like. Maybe you could slowly, somehow, without too much pressure, steer the conversation over to his old school and find out if anything happened. You need to make sure that nothing did happen and if it did take appropriate action. It might be something as simple as his teacher leaving.... All the best - my apologies for this message being so long!!! Name: Email: Subject

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