Still Using Disposable Diapers?

Cloth Diaperers:
Why Your Current Cloth Diapers May Not Be Best

Parents Of Night-Wetting Children:
What You Need
To Know About Bedwetting

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From: Renee J. Tice

Our children are hitting every potty training milestone later and later.

Want to confirm it for yourself? Ask your grandmother at what age she started potty training her children, and how old they were when they were out of diapers for good.

Next, ask your mother the same question.

Finally, ask a friend with kids a few years older than yours.

Why would this miracle of convenience, disposable diapers, touting such a useful benefit as dry skin for your precious child, cause such an undesirable result? Well, let's take a look at the possible motivation.

	These companies make money from your child's bodily waste.
	They get more money the longer your child is stuck in diapers (have you noticed the bigger sizes have fewer in each package at the same price?)
	And they make even more money once your child starts wearing pull-up training pants (they cost more than standard diapers), even though their product won't actually help your child learn when they need to go potty.

So they get you hooked on the supposed convenience of throwing your baby's waste in the garbage by supplying hospitals with free product; teeny little cute diapers that cost ten cents apiece and trap you into a buying cycle that continues until your child is two and a half, or three, or even three and a half years old.

That's 6000 diapers or so! And upwards of $1600 dollars!

You really do pay for convenience, don't you?

Now, I know you're smarter than to give a huge mega-consumer goods company that kind of control over you. The reality is, the longer your child continues to use diapers without wetting feedback, the longer it will be before your child is fully potty-enabled, and the longer you'll be locked into lugging home package after package of trash waiting to happen.

If you're not convinced yet, let me dispell a few potty training myths while I'm at it:

	Potty training doesn't really take a few days or a few weeks for most children under the age of two and a half or even three. According to one scientific study, the average duration of potty training is 10 long months (in case you're wondering, that's a LOT of disposables).
	There are a lot of ways to "mess up" potty training without knowing it. Quitting diapers too soon can easily tack four months onto your child's potty training (I know because it happened in our family).
	Night dryness usually takes many more months after day potty training is completed and 40% of 3-year-olds still wet at night. Dry through the day does NOT equal out of diapers.