When we presented our pediatrician with our third child who could urinate in a sink on verbal command at just six months old, she remarked, "We should write an article for a medical journal!" We explained that such an article would never get published because it's not new information; most of Europe begins potty-training at around six months. Delaying this valuable skill until the age of 3-4 years is an enormous waste of resources - but still the whole country was insisting on doing it, don’t know about now.
lqet|1 year ago
Not sure how this relates to the article, but this is news to me (European). We slowly began potty training somewhere between 1 and 2 years. I have never heard of anyone doing potty training at six months. Babies are just barely able to sit upright at that age.
n4r9|1 year ago
Where did you hear that? Admittedly here in the UK we've been doing our level best to extricate ourselves from the continent, but I've only ever heard of one mum even thinking about it before 18 months. Ours is just over a year and we haven't thought about it at all yet, same with our ante-natal group and friends with slightly older babies.
I googled around a bit and this reddit thread has a lot of Europeans with similar experience to me: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mommit/comments/tdb1f2/what_are_non...
knallfrosch|1 year ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=baby+abhalten+*.de
Our baby was born potty-trained (which actually means the term is misleading in our case) and a relative started at their childrens' birth.
TeMPOraL|1 year ago
Hailing from Poland; first I hear of this. I know of total of two people who said something like this before - one person is saying a lot of other borderline insane things about parenting, and the other has a business selling webinars around the idea of potty-training kids less than a year old.
apexalpha|1 year ago
Funny. I am European and we have this myth about Asia.
Avshalom|1 year ago
Wait, what do you think potty training is?