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Originally Posted by ma2two  Is my son the only 3 year old still pooping in a diaper? It sounds like it, lol.
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Actually, my youngest dd was still in in diapers until she was nearly 4 1/2 -- so, no, I don't think your son is unusual.
Back when I worked in daycare a little over 10 years ago, though, it was the policy in Kansas where I worked for children to "have" to be toilet-trained, no diapers, no pullups, before they could move to a preschool classroom and before their parents could switch to paying the less-expensive rates for a preschool-aged child as opposed to the much higher rates for a toddler.
Crazy, I know, and I'm glad to hear that people are getting more enlightened. It was hard on a lot of the parents who had 3 and 4yo's who still needed to be in pullups or diapers -- but because they wanted their kids to be in age-appropriate classrooms, and couldn't afford to keep paying the higher rates, they'd pronounce them completely trained at home, and act shocked when they went through all their three or four changes of clean clothes at daycare.
I recall one mama who continually took her child potty and changed him into his pullup before they went home in her new car
It would've been a ton easier, on everyone, to just keep 'em in diapers and not push the toilet training. As it was, we were stuck dealing with some poopy messes with no place to actually lay the child down. It was against state regulations to have a changing table in a preschool classroom; we weren't "licensed" for pullups.
And of course no diapers so it was all down their legs. So they are standing there with you wiping them down with warm paper towels.
I think I was too focused on getting them "globally" clean to even think about what might be underneath a foreskin.
I'm glad to hear that daycares and state officicials are getting more savvy about the wide variations in toilet-readiness in children, and I'm also glad to hear that your child's center doesn't retract.
