I was watching on the news the other day
where they was talking about the latest
trend in potty training and that's letting
the baby go diaperless and knowing their
schedule. What are your opionions on
this? Personally I do not have time to
always put my child over a potty until she
goes. Then after seeing parents do it on
the news it looks to me like the kids are
training the parents. Just wondering what
everyone else thinks.
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HcoBrunette06
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Posted: 10-18-07 21:24pm
I think that's kind of weird, I know I
don't go pee at the same time every day...
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tnmommy
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Posted: 10-18-07 21:27pm
I agree weird it is but it's the "latest
trend" supppose to make things easier.
LOL I can and am working with the baby
sign language I can even handle some of
the other new ides just I have a real
problem with going diaperless esp. if
we're going for a walk around the block,
out at the park or for a car ride. I do a
lot of frenquent diaper changes as it is
and a lot of laundry now but that'd be me
changing her outfit every hour or so if
she doesn't make it.
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young Girl
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Posted: 10-18-07 21:31pm
i think that show is stupid lol
lets let our kids go diaperless so they
can tinkle and crap all over the house
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Tylanas
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Posted: 10-18-07 21:47pm
I was potty trained when I was ready. This
happened to be age 5... A little odler
than usual! I was still in safety panties
or whatever they were called back then.
I saw a neighbor boy going to pre-school
and wanted to go too and my mom said I
couldn't, unless I could wear big-girl
panties and go in the toilet. I was lazy,
what can I say!? But once I had an outside
reason to do it, I did it instantly.
I'm weird like that. I don't often do
something just for the hell of it. I need
a reason. Outside pressure.
My brother was funny. He was around 3
years old and we moved to a new apartment.
My mom did this:
Mom: "George, there are no diapers in this
house."
George: "Nooo?"
Mom: "Nope, so you'll have to go potty
like a big boy."
George: "Oh, okay!"
And he did! lol!! EVERY child is
different. Night-time training is hard,
too. I was wetting the bed till I was 6 or
7, and finally a book helped me at last.
I talked about it to my mom recently,
because what I remember is the book
telling me to have an alarm (like a fire
truck) go off in my head at night when I
had to pee. My mom says that the book
actually guided parents to SET an alarm
for the child initially, to wake them up
halfway through the night to pee.
Eventually, the alarm was weaned away and
the child simply did it automatically. I
can only imagine how many weeks/months it
took to train that behavior O.o I still do
it, too, especially if I go to sleep early
in the night like before midnight and
sleep a full 10 hours. I pop awake halfway
through the night, and I need to pee.
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tnmommy
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Posted: 10-18-07 21:54pm
the_girlfreind
wrote:
i think that show is stupid
lol
lets let our kids go diaperless so they
can tinkle and crap all over the
house
Oh no I meant that it was on the news and
I had read some online stuff about it.
The news anchor had about the same
reaction as us as the uhhh that's nuts.
They actually had 1 ped doc going for it
and 1 ped doc saying they'll do it in
their own time. My nephew is 3 and is
potty trained my friends son was potty
trained at 2 years old and then I had a
friend whos daughter started to potty
train and 14 months but that was because
the daughter was at the store with her one
day and said "mommy potty" and pointed to
the potty.
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Anne123
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Posted: 10-19-07 14:40pm
Just to clarify matters a bit, they are
not potty-training their infants.
It is called Elimination Communication
(EC). The parent (mostly mother) learns
to read her baby's body language to
anticipate when the child needs to
eliminate, and provides an appropriate
(and comfortable) place to do so. Cues
might be their attention/eyes being drawn
away or scrunching their face a certain
way. "Accidents" are never punished.
Some EC parents use diapers in conjunction
with EC-ing (especially good if using
cloth diapers because it means fewer poopy
diapers).
It does sound fascinating and good for
both baby and mom, but I personally don't
think I could handle doing it full-time
(or without diaper backup) because of the
inevitable daily clean-ups.
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AyaMiyaki
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Posted: 10-19-07 14:48pm
That wouldn't work for us - at least not
in the immediate future. My daughter
almost always pees as soon as her
diaper comes off. It's almost like she
feels the air hit her down below and
thinks "Wow, that's nice. I think I might
have a tinkle to celebrate!"
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Tylanas
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Posted: 10-19-07 21:06pm
hehehe XD That made me giggle, Aya!
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tnmommy
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Posted: 10-21-07 17:53pm
lol Aya our lil one is like that too...I
tell ya they say only boys squirt...ya
wanna bet? lol she's got better aim then
most boys do.
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Breizzy
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Posted: 10-26-07 20:34pm
I do know a few girls that are doing this
method of potty training.. it has been
working for them. They 'wear' their
babies so they can 'get in tune with their
bodies... and know when they are gonna go.
But i let my children train when they were
ready. It was less stressful to me...
It is wierd.... but hey, to each their
own.
I personally will always wait till my kids
are ready... I over the summer
pottytrained my littlest one... and it
took only 2 weeks before he was totally
trained (both peeing and pooing) ... He
was soo ready.
