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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MYOB.  Our pediatrician told me I could start potty training at 2 and be done at 3 years and 3 months or I could start at 3 and be done at 3 years and 3 months.  So, if you knew us, you too would be judging us based on our decision about when to potty train our child.  Ours isn't suffering any ill effects and potty training was a breeze.[/quote].

Total agree. You can try to force potty training as much as you want, but it won't happen til the kid is ready. And, not a minute before. DC also became ready at 3 years and 3 mo. [/quote]

So why until the 1960s were 90% of kids trained before they turned two? In some parts of the world the kids are still trained before two?

What do you think explains this? [/quote]

I would say a good 70% are now (maybe 80%).  And I would say a good 70-80% were then.  The difference was how much the 20-30% were shamed for it by their parents in the 60s because it was seen as abnormal.  Let's not return to those days.  It IS developmentally normal to train in your threes though most are done before.[/quote]

There is no way 70-80% of kids here are trained by the time they turn two. Not a chance. [/quote]

Actually, in most of the rest of the world, yes, most kids are trained by 2.

And no "shaming" isn't the only way to potty train.  You can train a kid by 2 without "shaming."  the fact is before disposable diapers, kids had more of an incentive; they were uncomfortable in a wet/poopy cloth diaper.

You don't have to "force" potty training in order to help a kid be "ready" earlier.  You just have to help form habits, adjust incentives.  If a kid is completely comfortable all of the time because their modern disposable diapers pretty much keep them comfortable even when they pee or poop their pants, then it will take a lot more for them to be "ready" (such as peer pressure).  But if you use cloth diapers or underwear, then there is pretty quickly an incentive to learn how to use the potty -- discomfort.  It has nothing to do with shame.  [/quote]

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