In ancient days, before disposable diapers, parents would begin toilet training as soon as a child could sit.
It was not strange to see a three month old seated on a potty while the mother or other care giver encouraged baby to ‘doo doo’.
Most mothers knew, by the age of three months, their child’s pattern. Mothers and caregivers knew when the baby should have to ‘go’ and set the potty time to match.
In ancient days, by the age of nine months most girls were toilet trained. Boys often took a little longer, a year.
The point was not simply less laundry. The point was not simply preventing the child sitting in his or her own filth. The point was in teaching the child that s/he had Control of their bodies.
A child could ‘hold it’ until s/he reached the potty. This power had a very important effect on the mentality of the child. The child learned s/he could ‘control’ his/her body.
This was the first instant of power that child obtained. The first second that child knew s/he was not a leaf blown by the wind but a tree.
Children who were toilet trained at an early age, an age before memory, grew up to feel ‘in control’. They could ‘control themselves’. They were not feral beasts but humans.
They could control their bodies. They could control their behaviour.
These children learned they could be silent, they learned they could wait, they learned they were in control. Their body belonged to them, their actions could be controlled.
This is the difference between the current crop of feral children which sit in their own filth until they are five years old, or older, and can’t control their behaviour.
These are the children who can not be told to shut up, to behave, and do not have the sense a person born before paper diapers, a person who was toilet trained in infancy, possessed.
Imagine three year olds sitting at the table with the family. Feeding themselves. You don’t have to imagine. This was normal up until the 1960s and did extend, to some extent into the 70s, when ‘old fashioned’ parents toilet trained their children.
It is easy to distinguish those who were toilet trained at a young age from those who were wearing diapers to kindergarten.
Those who were toilet trained are mature, confident, capable. They are often independent and think for themselves.
They go into the world meeting it eye to eye.
Those who weren’t toilet trained, who weren’t given the confidence and power in infancy are often dependent on their parents until far beyond eighteen. They need help with everything, are followers, have no mind of their own. They may be 40 years old but still expect Mommy and Daddy to bail them out of difficulty.
These people have little self control. They often think they ‘deserve’ all benefit. They expect to be taken care of.
Why shouldn’t they?
They have never been raised to control themselves. Never appreciated the responsibility of controlling themselves. They have never experienced the power of mastering their own bodies in infancy.
Once one leaves that fuzzy area of infancy without the sense of control it will not be easy to teach them.
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This is indeed is good research. Never knew about the impact toilet training could have on a child. But it takes time for the mother to get that done.
My neighbour's little fellow took very long. He would climb up on a stool, open the cupboard and pull out pampers and put them on himself and would be quite happy. (lol)
Imagine a child of that age, still sitting in his own filth. A child who can diaper himself but can't control his bowels.
It's just lazy feral parenting.
In psychology, Sigmund Freud talked something about what he calls the anal phase. Its the time when a child becomes really aggressive. However, it is also the time when children are taught to be toilet trained. If they are trained during this period, they will enjoy holding their emotions, thoughts and everything that wants to get out from their minds when they get older. But they will enjoy releasing those thoughts if they were not trained at all.
It is called discipline. That one can control themselves. When a little baby has the 'power' of his bowels he can have the power over his mouth. The self-awareness is vital