Toilet learning is the one daily milestone most services support without a shared method. The 2026 NQS reforms just made that a Quality Area 2 question.

We have frameworks for play, for language, for early numeracy, for social and emotional development, for almost every domain of early childhood. Yet for the most intimate and frequent care moment in the day, educators are largely left to improvise. They work from instinct, from what a previous room leader did, from whatever their own training happened to cover.