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I feel like the time demands of modern life are the main culprit here. Today families mostly need two working parents, which means nobody to take care of the ba
by cowpig 7mo ago
I feel like the time demands of modern life are the main culprit here. Today families mostly need two working parents, which means nobody to take care of the baby full-time.
If you have someone taking care of them full-time, toilet training early is usually easy and a net time save.
But if you can't ever invest that time because of the time version of the poverty trap, you are in diapers until the kids are developed enough to make the transition themselves or by seeing other examples (at daycare, etc), or are just old enough that it can be explained to them.
- colmmacc 7mo agoOur two year old is potty training right now, and this was definitely a factor for us. We had to wait until it could be explained. Another factor is that diapers are now so absorbent that the kid feels no real discomfort from a pee or a poop. His main motivation is peer pressure and to be a bigger kid; concepts he's only recently caught.
- bombcar 7mo agoSwim diapers are not really absorbent and can be a good "make him feel it" substitute while still containing the worst of the explosions.
- showerst 7mo agoI just want to second this; a ton of parents I know had kids ready to do it earlier but waited until a major holiday/break when everyone would be home anyway to knock it out.
- MisterMower 7mo agoRelated, the longer you wait to do it, the faster they seem to catch on. We waited until each of our kids’ third birthday to potty train and knocked it out in a weekend, no major subsequent accidents. A lot of parents will tell you they’ve potty trained their kids and also tell you their two-year-old wets the bed evey other week.