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A very old and widely practiced parenting approach. It is still prevalent around the globe depending on the climate and environment. It is not uncommon in the US for potty training.
It wouldn't be for me, but some people always embrace "back to nature."
Well, I guess the next thing we'll see is using leafs after #2 and old rags (schmatas) instead
of tampons or pads.
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Just because two white, liberal, upper East side couples who are friends with the New York Times Style editor try every stupid new parenting fad that comes along doesn't mean everybody's doing it.
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Translation: people be weird. This shows it's ALL ABOUT the parents and filling some void in their egos.
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Didn't really get your joke, but those disposable diapers are horrendously screwing the environment. Would you like to calculate how many there are in landfills?
Wasn't difficult to google...
Since disposable diapers are filling landfills, then use cloth diapers....that of course would involve
rinsing them out in the toilet and washing them in hot soapy water.
I heard of this a few years back, when my kids were still in diapers. I think it was being referred to as early toilet training rather than diaperfree parenting. I remember reading an article about it and mentioning it to a friend from China. She said that it was common there for toddlers to wear pants with no crotch instead of diapers. I googled it "diapers in china" and sure enough, it was.
Two comments. Per our pediatricians: children really are not capable of being completely toilet trained
before the age of 2 and it's more towards the age of 3.
Second: do we really want to follow what China does?
Hey if you have hardwood floors or tile, who cares? Sort of like my friend's non housebroken 4 year old pooch. Just have plenty of wet wipes and rags around......
Well, I guess the next thing we'll see is using leafs after #2 and old rags (schmatas) instead
of tampons or pads.
Two comments. Per our pediatricians: children really are not capable of being completely toilet trained
before the age of 2 and it's more towards the age of 3.
Second: do we really want to follow what China does?
I wasn't suggesting that we imitate China, just pointing out that it's not a new method. It's only surprising because it's being used here among people who can afford better standards of hygiene.
Seriously? You're comparing eating at a restaurant to being around manure on a farm??? You do realize that poop contains e-coli bacteria and should be nowhere around food, right?
If I wanted to eat around feces, I'd ask for a table in the cow pasture or the bathroom.
Yes.
[i'm not getting and closer to the feces than when it was in the diaper]
^^^I actually saw this while I was in Vietnam adopting my girls. It didn't always work.
the baby clothes in China and Vietnam have slits in the crotch with extra folds of fabric so that the garment can be opened up and the child is put over a pot. No need to remove any garments. They end up smelling to high heaven and very stained but no diapers are used except the extra folds of fabric which get soiled when the fabric is not held apart far enough or when the baby misses the cue.
One way to combat the environmental concerns with disposable diapers is to use...wait for it...cloth diapers. We certainly did exclusively with our first two who are now 32 and 29 and definitely at home for the youngest ones now 11. They make flushable inserts for cloth diapers to accommodate solids. A lot better than dunking the diaper in the toilet and wringing it out by hand.
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You do realize that poop contains e-coli bacteria and should be nowhere around food, right?
