Oy

[flea]

Dillo had an accident at after school again today. The person in charge told mr. flea it took half an hour to get him changed (WTF? he can change himself; two year olds at his Montessori changed themselves) and they are going to start calling us if he has an accident and we will have to come change him.

So, I dunno what we can do. I mean, it's not like we send him to school at 7:30 am saying, "Be sure to pee in your pants at afterschool!" I also note, he has never had an accident in his regular class, which runs until 2:30. They make them go to the bathroom in PreK, which IMO is age-appropriate. If you ask Dillo if he needs to pee, it's odds-on he'll say no even if he's dancing the pee-pee dance like mad.

If this keeps up I guess we will plan to pull both kids out of afterschool and pay someone to keep them at home. Because we can't leave work and change his pants several times a week; we need afterschool because we have, you know, JOBS.

You'd think that afterschool could think of a better way to handle this than punishing the parents. I'm not peeing in Dillo's pants, and there is NO WAY I can stop him from doing so if he wants to.

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[loligo]

I am with you in four year-old frustration. Squeaky's preschool class just instituted a whole new classroom management system, with a big construction paper traffic light and clothespins with the kids' names on them that get clipped on different colored lights depending on the kids' behavior -- and in two days, he's the ONLY kid who's been moved off of green. And last year at this same school, he was a little angel who wouldn't say boo to a goose. I am so ready for him to learn whatever developmental goal he's working on, and get out of this phase! (Night waking has also shot through the roof.)