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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lazy parents.[/quote]

You sound terribly ill informed.

I had one child who was potty trained at 3.5 but not night trained until 6 years old!!!
Want to know why? Well when he was 2.5, we decided to renovate a house and we would go there every evening after work and there was no running water turned on.
It was much easier to keep him in diapers rather than look for a McDonald's to take him to and I didn't know about travel potties.

He also has severe ADHD which affects potty training. I bet you didn't know that - or just don't care.
My son tried as he turned 3 but just couldn't do it. He was such a sweet kid and just got upset every time he failed. He finally came home one day from preschool at age 3.5 and said he wanted to really get it this time.
He stayed dry for an entire 3 day weekend and was done with pullups. HE was finally ready!! He stayed in pull ups at night because he had accidents almost every night.

I am seriously afraid for kids not that I see such awful comments on here. Some parents are overwhelmed and could possibly do better but nobody is perfect. Why must we judge everyone?
I'm really concerned for kids who have ADHD too. It's often not diagnosed at potty training age but it is affecting potty training. Punishing these kids won't work.

LET"S BE KIND.[/quote]

I mean it does kind of sound like lazy parenting.  You had your child going in a diaper because of a house renovation. That’s crazy.

You also had your kid in pull ups.  Of course he was going in them.

ADHD isn’t an excuse.  Until Pull-ups and modern parenting, almost all kids were potty trained by 20 months.  Seriously all of them.  Just like now almost all kids are potty trained by age Six baring a disability.  You’ve been had. [/quote]

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