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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What does "being ready" even mean? Perhaps everyone is waiting for their child to say "I'm ready!" and that's why so many 4 year olds are gleefully pooping in their pants.[/quote] The idea of kids being "ready" is a good one in general IMO (I'm the ECer), but what's missing from this with PT in the US is the fact that kids' natural readiness is interfered with by disposable diapers and the lack of peer pressure at a young age... Also interesting is the "readiness" theory came up along with the advent of disposable diapers. It's not actually developmental, per se. I think it's fine if you wait, personally. But it's not some natural developmental milestone for a 3+ year old, and the fact that some of our parents/ancestors beat us into PT submission does not mean authoritarian parenting is the only way to do it BEFORE this "magical age of readiness" (which seems to have creeped up a whole year in just 1-2 generations). [/quote]
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