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- From: kellihmt@daisymae.crd.ge.com (Margaret T Kelliher)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Potty Training???
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.202126.24156@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 20:21:26 GMT
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- Someone wrote:
-
- |>> According to our childrens doctor - any age younger than
- |>> 2 and a half years old is to young. Now people on this
-
- I hate it when doctors (and others) insist that this must
- be true.
-
- My daughter trained herself by 20 months. She often
- didn't ask to go, but told us she had gone. (Or we would find
- the evidence :) ) However, when we had a small problem with
- her refusing to go, we had a terrible time getting the
- pediatrician to believe that something was wrong. He felt,
- as yours does, that *we* must be trained, and were expecting
- too much from her. She *did* have a problem, which was easily
- solved (without his help) (Turns out that she had developed
- an irritation which caused urination to be painful. We had
- allowed too much independence and let her clean herself,
- even though she wasn't very good at it. Regular sitz baths
- took care of it.)
-
- I realize that many children aren't ready at that age, but
- why don't doctors understand that YMMV?
-
- Margaret Kelliher
- kellihmt@crd.ge.com
-