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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A mix of reasons. My friend tried introducing the toilet to her son since he was two but it wasn't working. Daycare staff tried without much luck for an entire year before seeing any progress. Later, the boy was diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum but it wasn't immediately obvious that was the issue when it all started out. 
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Another friend just wasn't up for the task and said as much - said she didn't feel like dealing with the hassle of potty training and that kid was four, still in pull ups. The kid is a bit eccentric but no special needs that the mother has disclosed. She feels that modern parenting steals the joy of childhood from kids, or something like, so anything that would ask the kid to sit and do an assigned task - whether it's peeing or practicing writing with a pencil - is oppressive and bad. So she doesn't and she's arranged her whole personal life to accommodate this approach. [/b][/quote]
Hence, the (unintended?) creation of a special needs child, perhaps. You have to wonder what kind of childhood the mother had.[/quote]

I'm sure this is a totally accurate description and not at all colored by your judgmental interpretation of her different parenting philosophy.  [/quote]

I'm the one you're bold quoting there and I'm pretty up front about the fact that I don't fully get it, thus my phrasing of "something like that" - I've heard enough to know that we're never going to eye to eye on these things, but we can be friends anyway, so I stopped asking why. I know she disapproves of some of my choices as well - like the brand of soap we use - and that's not a problem as far as I'm concerned. [/quote]

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