Depending on which website you peruse, the average age of toilet training for boys ranges from about 31 to 38 months. At 46 months old, Dashiell is long in the (baby) tooth to be sporting diapers. According to his preschool teachers, everyone else in his class is running around happy and dry in their X-Men and Ni Hao Kai-Lan underwear.
In this laissez-faire attitude toward the toilet, I am apparently unusual. Potty training — and the anxiety related to it — is big business: Toilet Training in Less Than a Day is a bestseller on Amazon; there are chapters of the organization Diaper Free Baby in over 35 states; and sites like Pottytrainingconcepts.com sell charts, pee-on-demand dolls, and “toilet-time targets” (for your son or daughter to aim at). And then there’s the Potty Mate, which allows you to record encouraging audio messages that play back when your child unfurls the toilet paper roll (like, say, “Nice #2 there, Junior!”). I’d venture to say I’d rather have my son potty-train at age 5 than think that the Charmin should be speaking to him.
Diapers in Kindergarten?
Toilet Training and Incentives: Child No.2 (Part I)
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