Django 2.0 ModelForm dateField not displaying as a widget

class Meta:
    model = CreateNewPatient
    fields = ['first_name', 'nickname','last_name',
        'date_of_birth', 'school_grade', 'sex', 'school']
    widgets = {
        'date_of_birth': forms.DateInput(format=('%m/%d/%Y'), attrs={'class':'form-control', 'placeholder':'Select a date', 'type':'date'}),
    }

That's how I got mine to work. Hope it helps!

should look something like this:enter image description here