I potty-trained my baby at the age of six months. Mothers whose children are still in nappies at school are just LAZY. Here's how I did it...
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By the time Brittany Balinski’s son was age one, he was out of nappies. This was a source of huge pride for his mum, who had started potty training him from the age of six months. Though at first baby Benedykt wore nappies at night, during the day he’d do without – with Brittany, who wasn’t working at that point, watching him for any hint that he needed the loo.
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‘We laid down those plastic interlocking mats so if he had an accident, it didn’t matter – we just wiped it up,’ says Brittany, 34, from Warwickshire. ‘It moved so naturally from me carrying him to the potty, to him crawling and then by 11 months walking to it by himself.’.
Some may question why any new mum would add toilet training to the long list of chores, when disposable nappies can minimise the burden, but Brittany believes it’s ‘lazy’ not to. ‘We’ve got to a point in society where we train our children to go to the toilet in nappies for the first three to four years of their lives,’ she says. ‘Marketing from nappy brands normalises this and even makes nappies for children much older than that.
‘But it’s not natural or normal. I think leaving a child in a nappy until they are three is just lazy. It really bothers me. Why have we allowed it to happen? It’s just a question of taking time to observe the cues your baby needs the toilet. I’ve never had to potty train any of my children.’.
Indeed, an early years charity revealed as many as one in four children starting reception class in England and Wales are not toilet trained. Such is the extent of the problem that a council in Wales has warned parents of children who are not potty trained that they must come into school to change their child’s nappies themselves.
