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Pestle 08:23 AM 10-19-2018
I have a recently-potty-trained 3yo who always and only has a bowel movement five minutes after the whole crew has started to eat lunch. He won't go if I put him on the toilet before the meal. There must be something about food moving into the digestive tract that triggers food leaving the digestive tract. 
The bathroom is in another room. If I change where the tables are placed, I can see the bathroom AND the tables at the same time, but when the guy needs his butt wiped and close supervision while on a stepstool to wash his hands (he's a klutz), I can't see the kids who are eating.
What do you do? Put everybody's meal on hold and go troop into the other room together? Every day? For the indefinite future?
The bathroom is in another room. If I change where the tables are placed, I can see the bathroom AND the tables at the same time, but when the guy needs his butt wiped and close supervision while on a stepstool to wash his hands (he's a klutz), I can't see the kids who are eating.
What do you do? Put everybody's meal on hold and go troop into the other room together? Every day? For the indefinite future?
Leigh 09:20 AM 10-19-2018
Originally Posted by Pestle:
I have a recently-potty-trained 3yo who always and only has a bowel movement five minutes after the whole crew has started to eat lunch. He won't go if I put him on the toilet before the meal. There must be something about food moving into the digestive tract that triggers food leaving the digestive tract.
The bathroom is in another room. If I change where the tables are placed, I can see the bathroom AND the tables at the same time, but when the guy needs his butt wiped and close supervision while on a stepstool to wash his hands (he's a klutz), I can't see the kids who are eating.
What do you do? Put everybody's meal on hold and go troop into the other room together? Every day? For the indefinite future?
Maybe start HIS meals before the other kids' and get the pooping out of the way before feeding the other kids?I have a recently-potty-trained 3yo who always and only has a bowel movement five minutes after the whole crew has started to eat lunch. He won't go if I put him on the toilet before the meal. There must be something about food moving into the digestive tract that triggers food leaving the digestive tract.
The bathroom is in another room. If I change where the tables are placed, I can see the bathroom AND the tables at the same time, but when the guy needs his butt wiped and close supervision while on a stepstool to wash his hands (he's a klutz), I can't see the kids who are eating.
What do you do? Put everybody's meal on hold and go troop into the other room together? Every day? For the indefinite future?
Ariana 09:33 AM 10-19-2018
I send them to do their business and then they yell out when they are done. I go and wipe super quick, wash my own hands quickly and go back to the table where I have plenty of soapy cloths. Then I wash their hands with the soapy cloth. Since they did not actually wipe their butts I think it is fine. If you are in the kitchen with a sink have him wash in the kitchen sink.
Pestle 09:53 AM 10-19-2018
I don't go halvsies on handwashing--it needs to be with warm water for at least 20 seconds, both so the kids build the habit and so they don't spread disease. They may not have wiped their butts, but they've touched all kinds of surfaces and body parts.
And licensing prohibits kids in the kitchen in my state. Which I thought was silly until I found an aspirin tablet on my kitchen floor yesterday, and realized that no amount of carefulness from the daycare provider can fix careless spouses.
He's all the time breaking glasses and leaving it on the floor for me to clean up, too.
I suppose I could wipe DCK, then go wash my hands in the kitchen sink where I can still see the kids who are eating, but then I couldn't see him as he struggles to remember in which order to dismount the toilet, pull up his underwear, and pull up his pants.
I may have to wipe him real quick, then stand sentinel and remind him each step of the process before we both go back to the dining room together and I continue to the kitchen to wash my hands. BLECH.
There maybe something to that "feed him first" idea. At first I didn't like it, because I want the kids to learn table manners and how to be a good guest, but dining together as a group is just not working right now.
Next upgrade is going to be a low sink in the playroom bathroom, which will eliminate the falling risk while washing hands. Maybe I just need to bite the bullet and get the minor remodeling done.
And licensing prohibits kids in the kitchen in my state. Which I thought was silly until I found an aspirin tablet on my kitchen floor yesterday, and realized that no amount of carefulness from the daycare provider can fix careless spouses.
He's all the time breaking glasses and leaving it on the floor for me to clean up, too. I suppose I could wipe DCK, then go wash my hands in the kitchen sink where I can still see the kids who are eating, but then I couldn't see him as he struggles to remember in which order to dismount the toilet, pull up his underwear, and pull up his pants.
I may have to wipe him real quick, then stand sentinel and remind him each step of the process before we both go back to the dining room together and I continue to the kitchen to wash my hands. BLECH.There maybe something to that "feed him first" idea. At first I didn't like it, because I want the kids to learn table manners and how to be a good guest, but dining together as a group is just not working right now.
Next upgrade is going to be a low sink in the playroom bathroom, which will eliminate the falling risk while washing hands. Maybe I just need to bite the bullet and get the minor remodeling done.
Ariana 10:02 AM 10-19-2018
Originally Posted by Pestle:
I don't go halvsies on handwashing--it needs to be with warm water for at least 20 seconds, both so the kids build the habit and so they don't spread disease. They may not have wiped their butts, but they've touched all kinds of surfaces and body parts.
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Just to be clear I was only suggesting a quicker hand washing routine in this one instance to solve your supervision problem. It is not an ideal situation and supervision trumps 20 second hand washing for me if it is happening ONCE a day but that’s just me!I don't go halvsies on handwashing--it needs to be with warm water for at least 20 seconds, both so the kids build the habit and so they don't spread disease. They may not have wiped their butts, but they've touched all kinds of surfaces and body parts.
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Blackcat31 10:06 AM 10-19-2018
How many other kids are eating and how old are they?
daycarediva 10:21 AM 10-19-2018
I would just give him his water/milk or start with a veggie 'appetizer'.