Question only for non-UK based mums

I’m Belgian but lives the UK. Everyone around me is taking a week off of work to potty train their child.
As in, they’re using a week of precious annual leave for this, and then they don’t leave the house for days, quite literally locking themselves inside with their kid bum-naked, and « potty train ».
NO ONE does that where I come from. Potty training is seen as a longer, more organic process.

If you’re not British, can you say whether most people take days off to do potty training where you come from / where you live?

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Didnt vote because i am UK based but just wanted to say ive never heard of anyone doing this 🤨 most schools help potty train kids and you just carry on at home pretty sure its also been proven keeping your kid naked to potty train takes longer then using undarewear and letting them feel the wetness against their skin to understand the correlation

I am in the UK and I don’t know anyone who took a full week off. I did mine in 4 days including a weekend (so 2 days holidays) but most people I know just took 3 (so 1 holiday day).

US based. When we potty trained our oldest my husband and I both worked full time, we didn't take any time off work to do that. With my two year old I only work part time now, but we definitely didn't stay in the house to potty train. If they have to go while we're in a store/cafe/restaurant then we do that 🤷🏼‍♀️

So I have heard of this but I think it's a bit mad too... What is the Belgian way of potty training?

Sorry I’m UK based and sahm bit we did not stay in the house to potty train it is a bit mad imo cos not every child will get it in a week, my daughter took 6 months to be fully potty trained I just took her to the toilet

I live in the US and the “camp out” method is definitely popular. Ive noticed that the people who do it are often sending their kids to a daycare/childcare option that requires them to be potty trained by a certain age. We had our daughter home with us until she started prek at 3, so it wasnt an issue for us. We just let her develop those skills in her own time and didnt force an intense training period, which seems super daunting for kids and parents

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