Potty training for the workplace?
August 3, 2008 – 9:55 pm by SuzyMy thoughts turned to potty training this week as I attempt to encourage my two-year-old daughter to ditch the nappies. Can’t honestly say I’ll miss swilling out a putrid bucket of washable nappies, however eco-friendly they may be. Actually, potty training is proving to be even more onerous than I remember from the last couple of times – so I really do pity the increasing number of reception teachers who are being faced with four-year-olds who are still in nappies when they start school because their witless parents have not bothered to train them. I can’t imagine what sort of disruption this is causing to classes that are already hampered by grunting children who have not yet mastered language from their electronic babysitters. I see something of a parallel emerging in the workplace. I can’t be the only fastidious employer out there who is regularly shocked by plummeting standards of literacy amongst ...
