middle-class parents let their children wear nappies until they are 'ready to stop

Sophie Kathir proudly describes her four-year-old son Mahish as ‘a bright boy who can count to 20, is learning to write and could tell you the name of every dinosaur’.
He passed every developmental milestone, from weaning to walking and talking, pretty much on cue. At 3ft 4in, he is almost exactly the average height for a child his age.
So it seems incongruous – and perhaps disturbing – to learn that Sophie, an intelligent middle-class mother-of-two, regularly puts her perfectly healthy boy in a nappy.
Sophie, a 29-year-old NHS clinical trials co-ordinator says that having ‘tried everything’, she and her husband Pirathees, 36, have abandoned attempting to potty-train Mahish.
They have decided they are leaving it up to him to decide when he wants to stop wearing nappies.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3805552/As-growing-army-middle-class-parents-let-children-wear-nappies-ready-stop-experts-warn-JUST-POTTY.html

I took my mother's advice with my daughter and started potty training her as early as 10 months old. She was dry at night by 18 months old and out of nappies by 2.

If you start early enough, the child begins to associate the feel of the potty with emptying its bladder and bowels. I can think of nothing worse for the child than being sent to school at four or five wearing a nappy to the derision of all the other kids.

Another case of the child ruling the roost.

I agree with you, potty training a child so he/she is free of nappies is liberating for both them and the parent.

I learned a lot from my mum to, she had had three children and her experience was a lot better than mine when I was young.

I don't go along with giving the power to the child.....they need to be taught, I think it's lazy parenting and ultimately unsociable to sit back and let them get on with stuff.

"... four-year-old son Mahish as ‘a bright boy who can count to 20, is learning to write and could tell you the name of every dinosaur’..."



I could read when I was 3...

Potty training is about a lot more than making a decision, it's teaching the child so they can control when and where they go. This sounds like a very bad idea.

What she means is this: Portty training can be exhaustive and boring and repetitive and frustrating child-training..... and I simply can't be arsed to do it.

Schools won't allow a child to start if they're in nappies.

Tommy Monk wrote:


"... four-year-old son Mahish as ‘a bright boy who can count to 20, is learning to write and could tell you the name of every dinosaur’..."



I could read when I was 3...

Pity you've since forgotten how ...