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Can a 6-Month-Old Be Potty Trained?
For many parents, the absence of a changing table in a restroom is reason to grumble. But when nature calls her 11-month-old, Vivienne Palmer doesn't have to find the cleanest spot on a grubby floor for a quickie change -- or worse, make her son sit in a poopy diaper all the way home. She simply takes her tyke to the toilet, unsnaps his pants, and encouragingly whispers "pssss, pssss" until little Casey does his business.
Palmer is part of a growing wave of American parents who are trying infant potty training, teaching tots too young to walk, talk, crawl, or even sit to deposit their doings in a toilet or infant potty.
Reasons to Try ItWhile some experts object to the practice, parents who support infant potty training say it's cheaper, more sanitary, and more environmentally friendly than traditional training, in which toddlers typically rely on diapers until age 3. It also builds bonds between parent and child, as they learn to communicate about baby's bathroom needs, proponents say.
"When you catch a good pee or poop, you feel great -- I'm communicating with my child and I save one more diaper from landfill," says Palmer, who's from Boulder, Colorado.
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I agree with corakchan. If the baby is signaling to you, or crawling toward the potty chair, that shows cognitive involvement in the potty training process! I would appreciate it if Parents.com were more fair to alternative training methods such as EC. Toddler Readiness is not the only way to accomplish it.
10/18/2010 02:07:36 PM Report AbuseI really don't think it's just reflex. Try it yourself & you might see what I mean. By the way, my sisters & I never wet our beds as children... everybody I knew in school was potty trained as babies, I've only seen 1 girl in school ever wet her panties when the teacher was scolding at her... so what they say how they might have problems at later age being potty trained early is not true at all!! I find it ridiculous seeing kids being diaper changed in the park at the age of 3!! -_-
10/1/2010 06:30:49 PM Report AbuseMy family is from Hong Kong. It's unusual for us to hear that children are not potty trained until 2-3 years old. My mom started training me & my 2 sisters all at 2-month when we were babies. To her defense, as soon as we could sit(6 month), we knew where to go to do our business but sometimes with a little whispering help. Never failed. As for my own 5 month old baby, my mom found time to potty train him since last month. By the 3rd time she tried, I could already see it's working!
10/1/2010 06:24:33 PM Report Abuse