AERO's Early Childhood Learning Trajectories now map toilet learning as a strand of physical development, with observable markers educators can notice, document and scaffold. But the trajectories describe what progress looks like, not how to teach it. Read alongside the 2026 NQS changes, they turn a milestone the sector has rarely treated as teaching into something services can no longer leave to chance.

Curriculum leaders often ask whether Go Time–Potty Time is an educational program or a clinical one. The answer is that it has to be both, and a third discipline as well. This article explains how early childhood pedagogy, developmental psychology and clinical health practice come together in the program's design, and why that intersection matters for children, educators and families.