"The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution."
—Huey P. Newton
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The revolution the feeds the children gets my support!
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Sometimes, that's what you gotta do. I've seen parents do that at our daycare. I remember one Dad would show up with a duffel bag full of cloths each day, expecting the kiddo to just pee through all their outfits. We definitely did the same with our oldest for a time, send her in with trainers on. My youngest will tell me he has to pee, but only in the bath, because he's naked and doesn't want to pee in the bath. I think it's because the first couple of times he did it, I scooped him out of the tub and put him on the potty. That must have been enough for him to make the connection, and now he will shout at me in the tub "OH NO I GOTTA PEEEEEEEEEE!!".
The hardest part of this transition isn't the pee, but the poop. Nothing quite like having to clean out cloth trainers full of poop... Good luck!
This is where a high pressure bidet sprayer comes in handy. We did cloth diapers for both kids and will always highly recommend getting a bidet sprayer for at least one toilet. Works great for basically any soiled garnet. I can’t count how many times I’ve used it to spray food and mud and markets off our kids clothes.
They're good with pee but there's something about poop where they haven't made the connection yet. We'll let them be naked for ages sometimes to help encourage going to the toilet and they'll go wee fine but it can feel like they wait for a nappy to finally poo in. We've even got a box of hot wheels cars where they can get a prize for pooping in the toilet, they know about it and want prizes but it doesn't seem to get them to do it. We'll just have to keep at it, they know what to do so we just have to keep it up