Thread: Toilet trained for school?

My son's bladder to brain messaging service seemed to be out of order if he was doing anything he got totally enthralled in so I know how hard toilet training can be, but to send your kid to school in nappies?...thats ridiculous.

Spending lots of time in school I am amazed at how much responsibility the parents believe to be the Teachers. It is usually very clear to see which kids genuinely struggle with certain things and which kids have parents who just don't engage and help their child so its down to a lack of knowledge as they've never been taught or shown.

Its down to the same issue, some parents just can't be arrsed.

Every child develops at a different rate and my son's teacher was great at getting my son to go to the toilet by just making him a 'toilet attendant' it was his 'job' to nip to the toilets every now and then to make sure the taps weren't left on- so he usually went to the loo if he needed to while doing his job and that soon sorted his awareness out.

But I think schools should have the right to refuse kids who're still in nappies and nowhere near being toilet trained.

My son went to a special needs nursery and both they and I tried for months to toilet train him...unsuccessfully, I was so desperate to send him to a mainstream school but didn't think for a second they'd even consider taking him if he was stil in nappies. I reached the point where I woke up one day and thought sod it I've had enough you bloody will toilet train! It was January and very cold but I got up that day, switched the heating off and got him dressed in 'big boy pants' and trousers and explained that here only had one spare pair, after he wet the first ones I put them in the washing machine and put the dry ones on, a couple of hours later surely enough he wet the second set, so I told him there were no more until the first pair were dry. He spent the day extremely cold (I spent the day crying and feeling guilty and wondering if this actually constituted as abuse!!!) but by late afternoon when he was back in dry clothes he bypassed the potty and went straight to the toilet! He hasn't had an accident since that day and he's 10 now and happily at mainstream school! I would have been mortified to send him to big school in nappies and I can't imagine the teasing he would have suffered! I sometimes wonder why people even bother having children anymore when they pass on every aspect of their raising to others. I fully understand the time constraints people face nowadays in comparison to past generations but I honestly believe if you don't have time even for the basics then you shouldn't be having them, donate your eggs/sperm to someone with the time instead! (rant over...bottle open...glass poured...aaaaand breathe)