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Knock on wood, but it does seem like Elliott has turned the corner on potty training! He has been wearing underwear the past few days and today he had no accidents. We even ran errands and he used the potty to do a #2 at a public restroom in a store. Wow!
He also seems very comfortable with pulling his pants and underwear up and down. Today he said to us "I don't pee in my underwear. That's not a good idea!" Absolutely right, Elliott!
Rosemary also likes to use the potty. So maybe she will be next.
Interestingly, the age for potty training in America today is much later than in many parts of the world. We're pretty sure Rosemary could communicate to us if she needed to use the potty but our daycare prefers for the child to be able to remove and replace their own clothing. Here are some interesting statistics:
In the 1950, almost a 100% of children wore cloth diapers and 95% of these children were trained by the age of 18 months.
In the 1980s, about 50% of children wore cloth diapers, while the other 50% wore disposable diapers and only about 50% of the children were potty trained by the age of 18months.
Today, almost 90-95% of children wear disposable diapers and only about 10% of children are potty trained by the age of 18 months.
Today, the average age for potty training is about 30 months with the age ranging from 18-60 months.
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The article which produced these statistics points to the convenience of cloth diapers as a factor driving up the age but perhaps the use of daycare is another consideration.
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2 comments:
Go Elliott! I totally think day care is a factor...our day care will help potty train, but only when they turn 2. It's too hard to manage the infants and try to help toddlers potty train at once!
This post highlights just one of the many, many reasons why cloth diapering is better. I don't see why disposable diapering is so prevalent given that it has virtually no redeeming qualities.
The practice of "Elimination Communication" goes hand-in-hand with cloth diapering and helps you be more in tune with your child's needs. The book Diaper Free Baby and others like it explain the concept. The basic idea is never to "train" your infant and toddler into wanting to go in a diaper so that later you don't have to "untrain" him/her into stopping that practice. This way, it's easy for them to transition to using the toilet.
By age 2, Henry was using the toilet pretty much all of the time. He hasn't had a wet or soiled diaper in weeks.
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