Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 8/18/2005 7:45:00 PM Author: Terri Subject: extended babyish behavior I just cringe when I read about all these kids who are way past toilet training age being bribed, coddled, and excused for pooping in their pants! Four year olds know where the toilet is and what it is for. They should not require assistance to sit on the toilet, and if they pretend they do then mommy must enjoy her "helper" role a little too much to give it up! The child enjoys the extra attention, the power, the bribes, and the sense of control. I find it nauseating to hear about babying these kids as if they are toddlers. I find it scarey to hear all these moms claim their schoolage child is just too incompetent to poop in the darn toilet. I find it strange to hear adults pander to a kid's deliberate choice to sit there and play video games rather than get their lazy butt to the bathroom. How absurd to pretend that "he just doesnt know he has to poop"! He knows He doesnt care. He is spoiled and catered to. He will be given diapers to wear and excuses will be made for him , and others will have to endure his smell and his unsanitary habits, and all the while no expectations are placed on him and he is well aware of it! It is beyond permissive, and beyond the realm of "normal" to think a 4 year old child or older must be cajoled into using the bathroom . I am sure the kid who is 7 and is wearing diapers to school has NO friends. What a shame that the parents allow the immature and inappropriate behavior to continue, that they become tolerant of it. That they see it as normal is just an indication of how weird they must be too. Poor kids. It isnt going to benefit any child to make excuses for their refusal to use the bathroom appropriately. Their peers will smell them, and their peers will reject them. And rightly so. Sad. Get real...a 4 year old is playing games if they pretend to be confused about the purpose of the toilet. A 7 year old has mental problems if they are wearing diapers to school. Name: Email: Subject

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