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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 149377" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Just a quick note, an amusing anecdote on toilet training:</p><p></p><p>This has arisen because easy child 2/difficult child 2 is studying early childcare at TAFE and we were just talking about children's development especially in things like toilet training. </p><p>I mentioned that my sister 'trained' her eldest son to use a potty (for No 2s, anyway) from the age of 6 weeks. It got so that he would fidget if he needed to go; by the time he was a year old he would clearly indicate he needed the potty.</p><p>This got us onto the topic of brain development. Obviously in me nephew, the brain pathways formed early, perhaps encouraged to do so by my sister regularly getting him into the habit.</p><p></p><p>But with difficult child 3 - his brain simply didn't make the connection. The older three kids were all in full-time Long Day Care and picked up toilet training fairly easily (except for a period of extreme oddness with difficult child 1 - another story).</p><p></p><p>But not difficult child 3. He was in Family Day Care, with another boy his age already toilet trained, and a younger boy currently being trained, but even with bribes difficult child 3 just couldn't "get it". It took another couple of years; he was bladder-trained by about 3, but bowel-training was still very shaky even after he started school.</p><p></p><p>His understanding lagged even further behind. I vividly remember one morning hearing difficult child 3 slam through the toilet door as usual, sounding like a SWAT team raid, then the sound effects of Niagara Falls (what is it about male bladders?) and then I heard him exclaim loudly to himself, "EVERY MORNING, there's more wee!"</p><p></p><p>To be speaking that clearly, he had to have been at least 6 years old. But he still didn't understand that excretion is a permanent part of life. He somehow thought that he would grow out of the need to ever use the toilet.</p><p></p><p>I had to sit him down with my textbooks and give him a lesson in human physiology, before he realised - it's like this for everybody.</p><p></p><p>Do make sure you write these things down as you observe them - they are too precious to lose. Besides, you can trot them out at his 21st and embarrass the heck out of him.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 149377, member: 1991"] Just a quick note, an amusing anecdote on toilet training: This has arisen because easy child 2/difficult child 2 is studying early childcare at TAFE and we were just talking about children's development especially in things like toilet training. I mentioned that my sister 'trained' her eldest son to use a potty (for No 2s, anyway) from the age of 6 weeks. It got so that he would fidget if he needed to go; by the time he was a year old he would clearly indicate he needed the potty. This got us onto the topic of brain development. Obviously in me nephew, the brain pathways formed early, perhaps encouraged to do so by my sister regularly getting him into the habit. But with difficult child 3 - his brain simply didn't make the connection. The older three kids were all in full-time Long Day Care and picked up toilet training fairly easily (except for a period of extreme oddness with difficult child 1 - another story). But not difficult child 3. He was in Family Day Care, with another boy his age already toilet trained, and a younger boy currently being trained, but even with bribes difficult child 3 just couldn't "get it". It took another couple of years; he was bladder-trained by about 3, but bowel-training was still very shaky even after he started school. His understanding lagged even further behind. I vividly remember one morning hearing difficult child 3 slam through the toilet door as usual, sounding like a SWAT team raid, then the sound effects of Niagara Falls (what is it about male bladders?) and then I heard him exclaim loudly to himself, "EVERY MORNING, there's more wee!" To be speaking that clearly, he had to have been at least 6 years old. But he still didn't understand that excretion is a permanent part of life. He somehow thought that he would grow out of the need to ever use the toilet. I had to sit him down with my textbooks and give him a lesson in human physiology, before he realised - it's like this for everybody. Do make sure you write these things down as you observe them - they are too precious to lose. Besides, you can trot them out at his 21st and embarrass the heck out of him. Marg [/QUOTE]
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