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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Generational. Babies born before the mid 80s were trained by two years old, other than kids that had legit night time issues. At the rate it is going now, kids won't be trained until 5.[/quote]

But “trained” used to mean something different. Talk to preschool and kindergarten teachers from the 70s. Kids had accidents all the time. There were these rubber pants they’d put really accident prone kids in to make it easier to deal with. Same with night training. They’d move kids out of diapers “on time” and then they’d wet the bed until the were 9. Accidents and bed wetting were viewed by many as misbehavior or acts of defiance. The idea that parents used to be “better” at toilet training is laughable. Disposable diapers mean kids train later, yes. But this is not the travesty people make it out to be.

Using a toilet is a modern development that is not that intuitive for humans. What’s intuitive is going snd squatting in a corner. Kids do that without training once they have the gross motor skills. But because we live indoors and don’t like cleaning up messes, they do it in diapers, and then we have to teach them to convert that instinct to using a toilet in a bathroom. It’s a more complicated process. And it always has been, though we’ve made it less messy, more gentle, and (it must be said) more wasteful with disposable diapers. That’s it.[/quote]

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