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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right when they turn 3. It will take a couple of days[/quote]

I agree.  People who start 18 months spend months trying to train a baby not physically ready.   [/quote]

Disposable diapers made waiting so long a thing. For centuries and in most parts of the world, no one is waiting until 3. This is a relatively new thing based on capitalism/waste. The better the diapers get, the longer people think it takes for their kids to be ready to use a toilet. [/quote]

For centuries most/many people didn't even have toilets and plenty of kids just peed on themselves until they could control it. They learned to poop in a trough somewhere. Some cultures used to toilet train by simply carrying their children around all the time everywhere (in slings or baskets) and then noticing they were peeing and pulling them away to pee on the ground. In lots of cultures children ran around naked or close to naked until puberty started. It's actually a very recent phenomenon to have indoor plumbing and the kind of culture/environment where "toilet training" is even a thing, and the idea of it being something a parent teaches their child alone in a house without other adults reinforcing or helping is even more recent. People also used to beat kids regularly, which is incredibly cruel and caused all kinds of mental health issues but also was a very effective way to get kids to stop certain behaviors we didn't like, like peeing on the floor. Please stop acting like the last 80 years are the entirety of human history.

In 2025 in the United States, [b]a child toilet training at 3 is perfectly normal [/b]and will in no way inhibit their development or make it hard for them to function in society.[/quote]

Tell your kid that when they are embarrassed to be pooping in a swim diaper in the pool when the other kids are using the bathroom. [/quote]

3 year olds don't care, so you won't have to explain this to them. Only judgmental middle aged women who think toilet training is the epitome of parenting care, and 3 year olds rarely care what people like that think.[/quote]

You sure about that? Personally, I was reading, swimming, going to my little preschool, riding my little bike, and doing all kinds of stuff at age 3 that did not include peeing/pooping in a diaper in front of other people. I am glad my mom did not think I was a blob with no sense of what others were doing at that age.

Wearing a pull up on a long car ride, on an airplane, or overnight is one thing. Just not even using a bathroom until the age of 3 is not necessarily something your kid won't notice/care about. [/quote]

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