Comments on: Sorry Kid. Spend The School Day In Your Soiled Soggy Underwear; We Don’t Do Dirty Bums

By: KindieTeach

KindieTeach — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 13:58:00 +0000

As a Kindergarten teacher, it is not really my place to physically wipe a child, that is too intimate of an action and I do not feel comfortable performing such tasks. I do help children by talking them through anything that happens when they need help, we help students know when they may need to change their clothing so that they are clean, and we do whatever else is needed to ensure the safety of the students in the classroom, and our own. My job is to deliver the curriculum that the ministry has set out, not to toilet students. Remember that day cares are completely different in how they are set up (1 to 8 ratio vs the 1 to 15+ in a Kindergarten classroom), the workers are specifically trained in how to deal with such issues, and have different insurance coverage than we do at a school. I never received training on how to assist students who have had a BM and can’t wipe appropriately. I can empathize with those families who encounter this situation but to blame the teachers is completely inappropriate and immoral.

By: HappyMommy188

HappyMommy188 — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 02:54:00 +0000

That is a mean thing to say. Every child learns at a different pace. Also, we didn’t pay day care so they can come home with a rash and smell like feces. A caring teacher would guide the child to wiping themselves. Often, kids learn better with other children. My LO was potty trained in TWO weeks by hanging around his older cousins when he was 2.5 years old. Yes, 2 weeks. The kid refused to use the potty for over a year but hanging around the cousins – even trained to use the regular toilet at the same time. The LO is still learning to wipe and when he is ready, he will let me know. Forcing a child doesn’t speed the process. If the child is trying then that is all we can ask.

By: Diane M.

Diane M. — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 21:39:03 +0000

Your Comments I would always assist a child to change into clean clothing (if an accident occurs) with another adult present of course. It’s the daily “Will you wipe my bum, that we should not be expected to do. I will talk a child through the process so that they can learn themselves, but, while I am at the bathroom, who is supervising my other 20 children, now that we do not have educational assistants?

By: Melissa P

Melissa P — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 20:30:13 +0000

As a teacher I had to send kids who had accidents to the clinic to change themselves. Parents had extra clothes at school for the children bc I taught Kg. Older kids often had to call home, though. Our special need skids were attended to by aides who were supposedly trained to do the changes in a sanitary manner. When I taught pre-k we cleaned the child if an accident occurred but another adult was nearby to make sure no one was improper.

By: Ann

Ann — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:38:39 +0000

Thanks very much for this. Our little guy is about to start Montessori and they told us in the orientation that there will be no toileting help. Our little guy is 3 and pretty good, but I know from my older daughter that kids can’t really wipe feces well until they’re 5 or 6. I’ll wait and see what happens, but your post has inspired me to be unafraid to vocally challenge this policy.