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The other thing I would mention is that we are constantly hearing about how poor American kids perform academically compared to other countries.  Perhaps we should start looking at where American parenting differs from other cultures.  and potty training is a very good example.  Most other places in the world, people do not wait until a kid is 3 or older to start training.  And most other places also do not take the "wait until the kid expresses interest" approach.

I understand correlation does not equal causation.  But it is interesting that about the same time the potty training model changed in this country (i.e. people starting waiting later and/or waiting until the kid showed interest), our children gradually started to perform at lower levels compared to the rest of the world.[/quote]
Please provide sources for your claims that academic performance began to suffer when potty training model changed. Or continue to be ridiculed.

It is also interesting how these potty-training Asian prodigies continue to swarm American universities, these festering seats of dismal academic performance.  Perhaps they feel the need to be surrounded by low-performing, late potty-trainers to feel superior. [/quote]

There is very little argument that we rank very low in school performance (I'm not talking about universities, but it could be argued that they come here because universities here have more resources).  But it actually proves my point that our top universities are filled with foreign students -- they don't have any trouble getting into our colleges.
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