I have gotten several questions recently from readers. One I keep getting is my opinion on what age a child should be out of diapers and using a potty.
I personally have my own strong opinion on this and here it is.
Age 2 and use common sense.
If you are an intelligent and compassionate human being, get your child out of diapers ASAP. Why would you want your child swathed in their own urine and feces? Get your child trained ASAP and get them pooping and peeing on the potty. It’s common courtesy to your child.
John Rosemond has authored 14 parenting books, pamphlets and writes a nationally syndicated column on parenting and is a very busy public speaker on the subject. His opinion on the matter, I find to be very true. John Rosemond claims it is a “slap to the intelligence of a human being that one would allow baby to continue soiling and wetting himself past age two.”
Agreed 100%.
However, pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton, believes that potty training is the child’s choice and has even encouraged this opinion in various commercials for Pampers Size 6, a diaper for older children. As a pediatrician, Brazelton warns that enforced or stressful toilet training can cause serious longterm problems, and that it is the child’s decision when to stop wearing diapers, not the parents’.
Now I agree with this as well. It is your child’s ultimate decision, BUT you must encourage and introduce your children to this notion of being a “big” boy or girl. To empower them to pee on the potty. Don’t be lazy as a parent, be proactive and give your child a positive feeling about peeing and pooping in a potty. Don’t be a militant jerk about it.
Again, in my opinion, you should start doing this at age 2. It’s common sense.
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