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We do not have restrooms in our classroom. We have to take all 15 of our very young 3 year olds down the hall to the restroom that has four stalls. Once we get in the restroom, 5 are in pull ups that we have to change. One of us is changing pull ups, the other is monitoring the sink area where they love to splash each other and get wet and slip and fall if we aren't watching closely. The other children are running and screaming in the bathroom. They love how when they scream it echoes in the restroom. It is chaos. I'm so afraid someone is going to get hurt. I've tried many ideas but nothing is working. We go to the restroom 5 times a day. HELP!!!
Alice Good Lord! I am a "worry wart" by nature and obsessively safety conscious. I could never tolerate this chaos purely for safety sake. I would only take a maximum of 5 kids at a time to the restroom and, while there, have one aide (or teacher) monitoring the sink area while the students in the stalls are being taken care of by someone else. The noise...See More
Oct 25, 2012


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