No way to raise up an astronaut.
They should let her drive their car.
Good job. ;-)
Words fail me and believe you me, that ain't a common occurrence.
Maybe they ought to let her go to college now. They're toilet training them now, Is kindergarden next week?
I guess one could say these children are not being "pampered"
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It's just a catch program.
My kids were all potty trained by 2, my wife is an absolute wizard at it.
However, her method is impossible without 2 things: Stay-at-home mom and very in tune with the children.
We didn't start training them until about 13 months, though.
BTTT
Someone will post a pic of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog ...
In America most women go back to work about 6 weeks after their children are born and they dont even see them for 10 hurs out of the day. makes this pretty hard to do,even if it works.
The entire mess of this topic just went right through me, didn't see it coming at all. Oh, gotta leave now.
"Toilet training" happens in one day - its the intersection of the day a child has the ability with the day he or she has the desire to do so.
With the arrival of my twins, my mantra became, "when they're 21, they'll both be able to use the toilet, tie their shoes, ride a bike, and no one will remember how long it took them to get there." (And no one will remember what my house looked like either!) I played with my kids every second I could. It was much more fun to chase them around the house yelling, "WHo Stinks???" and have them run away giggling while accusing the other of being the offender than it would be to worry about "looking for their cues" all day long.
My 2 children are barely 12 months apart.
Within 1-1/2 hours after eating breakfast my oldest, 4-6 months, could be seen turning red in the face and grunting.
Suffering from acute morning sickness, one particularly bad morning I decided to try the potty approach.
It worked like a charm and we were BOTH happy we did not have to deal with that nastiness. Yes, I repeated the process when/if caught in time or was convenient.
A few months later said child had figured out that not only could the nasty diaper be avoided, but wet ones as well by running to the potty and pointing saying "potty".
Long story short...out of diapers before first birthday except at night, but usually dry in the morning. Continued night time diapers until the new baby was a few weeks old. Once I determined there would be no reversion, to imitate the new baby for attention, diapers were abandoned all together.
Imagine, I did it without a book, or organization, or movement, or "experts" telling me anything. Some folks felt the need to tell me "I" was potty trained, not the child. My response; "Of course! Who cares? My puke time has been cut to less than half."
The American Academy of Pediatrics tells parents that children younger than 12 months have no control over bladder and bowel movements and little control six months after that.
Idiots!
I think the disposable ones are a lot better now. We had to do all that and make our own formula, sterilize the bottles, it was just part of having a baby then. And I worked most of that time after six weeks or so, too, except waited longer with my youngest.
"But EC parents insist that very young children are aware of their bladder and bowel movements"
Why would anyone need to *insist* the child is aware? Of course they are aware. It's not like they're numb from the waist down.
This isn't training the baby it's training the parents. If you are with your kid 24/7 and have the mini-potty ready it's not hard to learn to catch the baby in the act. However I have trouble believing that an infant actually can grasp what is going on let alone control their bowels or bladder. I'm sure in about 20 years these kids will all be in some kind of therapy.
I was never that hung up on it. The kids potty trained when they got tired of walking around in wet diapers. Usually it didn't last past the age of 3, and I wasn't a wreck trying to make sure they got to the bathroom on time. I did enjoy having the 'pull ups' for the last two when they were easing into potty training because they could do it themselves, but didn't have to worry about accidents messing up their clothes.