sct@lanl.ARPA (07/02/85)
My son (3 yrs old) just started going to pre-school after being with baby sitters since he was 6 months old. He had visited the pre- school several times prior to attending when I would pick up his older sister and he was always excited about the equipment that was there to play on. Three months before he started pre-school he was not potty trained and we told him once that he had to be potty trained before he could go there. After that he was potty trained within a month more or less on his own. The point being to all this is that we found a way to motivate him to want to be potty trained. We did not, however, stress the need to be trained prior to going to pre-school, but just mentioned it once or twice to him. His sister started pre-school when she was 2 while still not potty trained. We did not have a motivating factor for her when she was ready to be trained since she was already in pre-school. Subsequently we had more problems with getting her trained than we did with our son.