The Truth About Potty Training Early

The process of early Potty training is something that is widely misunderstood in America.

For the next four posts, we’re going to explore many of the misconceptions and misinformation that surrounds the subject.

Welcome to Part one of The Truth About Potty Training Early.

Phoebe Allan is an adorable seven month old baby girl. She has squishy little thighs and, like just about every other cute baby in the known world, a beautifully dimpled baby bottom.

So what’s the difference between Phoebe and most of the other infants swaddled across our 50 states?

Phoebe is wearing thin cotton underwear and can still parade about in the same clothes she wore during her first six months cooing. This is an easy fit since Phoebe doesn’t carry all the bulgy baggage hanging from the rears of her peers.

Phoebe sleeps through the night without a diaper. While the sun is shining, at intervals scattered throughout the day, her mom places her on a little plastic potty as she makes the sounds that help Phoebe identify her usual time for elimination. Together they practice potty training early.

Phoebe and her mother hale from Kismet, Maryland. This location makes the girls a bit unusual since it is rare in the United States to find families practicing the principles of potty training early.

For the majority of American parents, the idea of effectively potty training their child before they are able to walk, and well before the terrible twos, isn’t just foreign, it’s condemned, chastised and widely misunderstood.

Parents in the United States are often horrified by the idea, seeing it as an ensuing nightmare fraught with eventual psychological damage for their child.

Yet early potty training is effectively practiced throughout the world.

Here in America, things are different. Most doctors and psychologists agree, children aren’t ready to begin potty training until two years of age at the earliest. Some even say not to potty train the child at all. Rather, children should simply be allowed to toilet train themselves somewhere between the ages of four and five when they deem it most appropriate!

Yes, children could learn to read this way as well, but what’s best for their budding brains?

The methodology behind early potty training states that children are never too young to learn. Parents can start introducing the concept of elimination to their children at an early age. By doing so, it will never be foreign. Instead just another natural part of their day.

By starting potty training early, parents can teach their baby while still in the midst of their most impressionable stage. As your infant gets older, they will grow increasingly comfortable in their diaper and more firmly fixed in their ways. As months pass, the difficulty with potty training only increases. After a child develops language and compounded experience, they are able to control their environment and their situation, thus exponentially compounding the difficulty.

Start early, finish strong. We’ll explore these early potty training ideas further with part 2 of The Truth About Potty Training Early.

Potty Training Power…AWAY!!!