This practice just doesn't seem right to me. First of all, babies aren't physically able to hold in their pee and poop. I can't imagine these babies don't have accidents.
Secondly, Babies pee and poop ALL DAY LONG. I was a stay at home mom when my kids were babies, and I can't imagine how these mothers find the time to keep up with a baby's constant urination/defacation to take them to the toilet in time. They'd have to be living in the bathroom and must never leave the house.
When a child is older and can hold it, then it's no problem. It didn't take more than a couple of weeks to potty train each of my kids. Why spend months worrying about it when they're not ready?

P.S. If a parent is worried about environmental and financial issues that may arise from using disposable diapers, they can always use cloth diapers.

If they're that worried about financial issues, they should wait until they are financially able to have babies. I can't imagine just waiting for a baby to make that face and grunt so I could run them to the bathroom...jeez. That's no kind of life. Those kids are going to be serial killers or something. It's just not normal.

Duct tape the little basta....uh....urchins, to the toilet, hand them the Sunday Funny Pages, and let 'em get to grunting, works for me!!!!

When I was a kid I knew this family who had a child less than 1 year old and they spanked the kid when he would not go to the potty. I remember feeling really bad for the kid.

As far as myself, I saw my mom going to the toilet, and was all like, "Dude, i wanna do that too!" So I did, and from what I've been told, never had toilet training issues.

Assblaster, that's really sad. People who spank a child younger than 1 need to take some parenting classes. Anyone who expects their child younger than one to go the toilet on their own is a kook.
My kids were pretty much like you, Assblaster. they were about 2, 2 and half when they decided they wanted to go like mommy and daddy (and older siblings). Like I said before, it didn't take more than a couple of weeks for them to get the hang of it.

Yeah AB2K, that is awful, Most of my family believes in hitting, I myself started getting "spanked" before age two. I will sonn have children, and believe in the old saying "spare the rod, spoil the child". It will take someting pretty bad to get me to spank my kids.

As for the early potty training. As long as as it is working, I see nothing wrong with it. Older babies usually are able to give a subtle warning before they drop their loaf. It is up to the parent to pick up that warning.
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Healthy 1, while I appreciate your attitudes toward child-rearing, that Biblical passage means the OPPOSITE of what you intend. A lot of people get that backwards.

It's not advocating spoiling a kid as a good thing. It means that a child who is never disciplined, who is allowed to run rampant will end up spoiled.

Also, I work around small children, and we have a couple moms who boast that their babies were "potty trained" at 9 months, 16 months, whatever... they grab the kid and run and get them there in time.

The BABIES aren't potty trained. The moms are.

I don't think it can hurt to try teaching the kids early. What produces head cases is parents who one way or the other teach their children that they are not loved. Failed or miss-guided potty training won't do that.

I think this is just another excuse by yuppies to push everything. Time is money and money is their life, and babies have to follow that schedule, too. Hell, these jackasses even induce labor now so that there kids are BORN on a schedule.

And we wonder why so many yuppy children shoot up their schools...

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What if everyone farted at once?

This doesn't seem safe to me. If you have a special toilet for the child its one thing, but a toilet seat is actually quite dangerous for an infant who slips out of yuppie mommy's hands because she has to answer her cell phone. The potential for neck and spinal column damage from the infant falling through the toilet seat should be a primary concern.

Yes GGG. I guess I misrepresented what I really mean.

When a child does something wrong, they need to be punished, perhaps spanked in some cases.

Children need to be taugtht right from wrong, but there is a fine line between spanking and beating, that must never be crossed.

May I also add, how yong children are potty trained, is also a matter of culture. The above practice is widely accepted in India, but not so popular in Western cultures.

The "spankings" that I got as a child, are tottaly unjust. Using a belt, a stick, or getting a black eye at six years old like I got, is unjust punishment. _______
"Two percent of the population think; three percent of the population think they think, and 95 percent of the population would rather die than think."

Sweetie, I'm not about to debate corporal punishment with you.

My mother used a metal spatula on my ass. The hefty kind with the big wooden handle and thick metal plate. She said it was because the slits in the metal allowed the skin to come up through, and made it sting more.

It did. Conversation over.

What's the big rush? Every person, unless they're dain bramaged, will be potty trained whether you start at 1 or at 5.

It's interesting that, whether or not the parent is more actively involved in the process, most girls are potty-trained at 2.0-2.5 and most boys are potty-trained at 2.5-3.0. This seems to indicate that huge amount of the whole potty-training process has to do with physical development and less to do with Mom's and Dad's desires or techniques. It's also interesting to note that this is at precisely the same time that most kids' language, social and self-help skills start to explode.

You can lead a kid to the Kohler but you can't make him crap.
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Well if you talk to MY grandmother my father was a genious he was allegedly toilet trained by the time he was 18 months. And yes she put him on the toilet til he did something. I can only imagine him being on there for hours at a time while he did his business. I guess thats how you toilet trained at that time prior to the Everybody Poops book series.
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