Kindergartners In diapers: A growing trend
American Thinker,
by
Eric Utter
Original Article
Posted By: DW626,
10/2/2023 6:22:00 AM
Apparently, there are an increasing number of kids, with no physical or cognitive disabilities whatsoever, who are entering kindergarten without being potty-trained. This is hard to fathom. In the past, the vast majority of children were fully potty trained around three years old, give or take a couple of months.
However, today kindergarten teachers often report to We Are Teachers that 15-20% of their classroom is not potty-trained, and that even a few first-graders are still in Pull-Ups. (Again, this does not include kids with medical issues, or physical or cognitive disabilities.) Sadly, there is a growing trend of children reaching the age of five without being potty trained.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
mean Gene 10/2/2023 7:14:44 AM (No. 1567414)
Not surprised.
I just met an 11-year old girl who still talked in "baby talk."
She lived in fear of being forced to make a decision, too.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Msquared112 10/2/2023 7:15:10 AM (No. 1567416)
Parents are abdicating responsibility for teaching their kids anything. They don’t teach discipline, manners, responsibility for their possessions, cleaning up their room, respect for others, delayed gratification….why is potty-training special? Parents are not parenting. They’re observing and spoiling.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
southernboy 10/2/2023 7:41:03 AM (No. 1567433)
What we see hereabouts is not "spoiling" but more like child abandonment. The wife of a friend works as an assistant on the bus that picks up pre-schoolers for Day Care. Says more often than not the pre-schoolers appear to have dressed themselves in the morning. Shoes untied and on the wrong feet, sweaters on backwards, sleep still in their eyes and hair uncombed.
The result is feral "youts" who carry 9mm guns instead of pocket knives and females having more children with no fathers sending them to pre-school for their "raising."
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/2/2023 7:41:37 AM (No. 1567434)
This indicates a lot of unqualified and/or lazy parents out there.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rinktum 10/2/2023 7:42:56 AM (No. 1567435)
Any parent who cannot potty train a normal five year old should be ashamed. My goodness, what are these fools thinking?! It is your responsibility as parents to teach your children the basic skills of hygiene. This is not rocket science. This is laziness and abdication of parental responsibilities.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Daisymay 10/2/2023 7:43:22 AM (No. 1567436)
My Great-Grandson, who is Three, just started Pre-School. It was Required that ALL Kids be Potty Trained! So, maybe the Schools should think about doing the same. It takes time, and a lot of determination to get Children out of Diapers. I guess some Parents just can't be bothered, so they send the kids to School and expect the Teacher to do the work for them!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Lazyman 10/2/2023 7:58:58 AM (No. 1567450)
It takes a village.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 10/2/2023 8:02:55 AM (No. 1567454)
At the school where my wife worked many years ago, the lady Principal would immediately send such kids home. Her response to parents, "We don't change diapers." Besides, such kids will just be made fun of by the others, which would bring about MORE infantile behavior from the parents against the school.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
felixcat 10/2/2023 8:19:56 AM (No. 1567467)
Along with ghettoization of our culture, we can add infantilization of it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 10/2/2023 8:21:34 AM (No. 1567469)
Home school your kids. Public schools are becoming the repository for children whose parents are willing to abdicate THEIR responsibilities to the gov't. And gov't just loves the easy pickings.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
chillijilli 10/2/2023 8:37:07 AM (No. 1567481)
This is hardly surprising. Nobody excels at dealing with poop more than our government.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Patty48 10/2/2023 9:24:01 AM (No. 1567518)
Daisy Mae…..I taught school (years ago) and we called all new kindergarten parents into school the year before school started and we told the parents…they need to know their full name….and be potty trained ….shot records as well as a few other things. If they were in the district a year before kindergarten, they were contacted.
But since I left teaching it appears that some districts have fallen down in this area.
Also, we must take them if they show up at school and now live in the district.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mizzmac 10/2/2023 9:29:24 AM (No. 1567527)
Waiting for the Democrat's bill introducing government-funded potty training in Kindergarten, claiming it's a "right." If children can change their sex on whim, why shouldn't they demand to soil themselves into adulthood with congressional support?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
forward 10/2/2023 9:42:43 AM (No. 1567536)
I am sorry to say it but this is what happens when people who shouldn't become parents, become parents.
This is also an example of why those with $$ tend to pull their kids out of public schools and pay for private school. Public school teachers end up spending a lot of their time struggling to manage children with behavior issues or "special needs" and while some of that is just a bad-luck genetic dice roll.... some of it is DEFINITELY due to bad (non-)parenting.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Peregrine 10/2/2023 10:18:43 AM (No. 1567574)
Well I guess this puts Biden in the 15% to 20% of Kindergarten students.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 10/2/2023 10:22:58 AM (No. 1567576)
Best book I ever, ever read: Toilet Training in Less Than a Day: Nathan H. Azrin, PhD and Richard M. Foxx, PhD, (1974). It took my child less than 15 minutes, and his cousin the same amount of time. I bless the name of my MIL who gave me the book. The writers intended for the book to be of great help to mentally disabled children. It sailed off the book store shelves. MIL heard about the book on Phil Donohue's show. Yea rah, Gladys. Yea rah, Phil.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 10/2/2023 11:15:30 AM (No. 1567616)
Never had a problem changing baby diapers no matter how messy, but a 5 year old? That's a serious diaper. I could never control the gag reflex on one of those. It is such a disservice to the child, what are they supposed to do? How can ANY parent let that happen?
Also...I've never seen it personally but when did "pooping" in public get to be acceptable enough in some cities that, rather than enforcing the law, a city takes the time, trouble and money to print maps of the worst areas?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
kono 10/2/2023 11:27:46 AM (No. 1567630)
One more step towards having to begin the rebuilding of Western Civilization from scratch. On the bright side, there will be new fortunes to be made by those who make the important advances that marked the first rise. How far will we regress, though? Could I be the one who invents the wheel this time? Or could it be you who discovers fire? Oh, boy, the possibilities absolutely boggle the noggin.
Sorry for the sarcasm; but this nonsense is getting too depressing for rational response
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 10/2/2023 11:36:11 AM (No. 1567645)
Trash parents, with their feral children. Any guesses on ethnic break out?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
LadyHen 10/2/2023 11:49:14 AM (No. 1567655)
What?! Why are they crippling their children for life?
Mine were potty trained by the time they reached 3. If nothing else they get tired of sitting in poop and smelling nasty. And pull ups should just be a tool to help in certain situations, we used them at night (or on long car rides) to prevent accidental wetting, not a substitute for real undies.
Our little girl was a bit afraid of the big people potty as it was so tall and the opening was so big so we got a toilet seat with a built in toddler seat that folds up and down. It really is one of the best inventions ever. We just kept a step stool by the toilets she used and she learned to put her toilet seat down. Made potty training a piece of cake! The hardest part for my wee ones is pulling their pants and undies back up correctly.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
LadyHen 10/2/2023 11:56:11 AM (No. 1567666)
Forgive the second post.
Another reason we were always thrilled when potty training was complete was diapers are EXPENSIVE so I do wonder if these are "parents" who receive free diapers from welfare programs and don't care about the cost. Most young couples with multiple kiddies in diapers are thrilled to finally get rid of that expense and the lugging of the dreaded diaper bag. I always loved getting back to my purse!!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 10/2/2023 12:06:48 PM (No. 1567675)
My mom taught my sisters her fail safe method of potty training. She took each child to the store and let them pick put thworown "big boy" or " big girl" underpants, usually with Barbie, Superman, Little Mermaid or some other cartoon character. These were not training pants either. They were the regular undies that big kids wear.
The children were so afraid of soiling their new special undies that they basically trained themselves. Pf course their was an occasional accident, but for the most part, this method worked and worked quickly and always before the child turned 3 or 4.
Some parents are just too lazy to do the hard and messy parts of parenting.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Sully 10/2/2023 12:18:23 PM (No. 1567686)
These are parents who "read a book." Please. Lazy incompetent college grads.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Norway 10/2/2023 1:32:25 PM (No. 1567751)
Natural consequence of infantilizing college students, who melt down if someone calls them the wrong pronoun. Then these children in adult bodies have their own kids and pass down the woke mind virus to their offspring.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
udanja99 10/2/2023 2:20:44 PM (No. 1567787)
Lazy parents.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
paral04 10/2/2023 2:30:06 PM (No. 1567791)
What are the parents of these kids doing all day?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
MissMann 10/2/2023 7:28:10 PM (No. 1567936)
"They'll train themselves, when they're ready"...get ready--diapers are just the visible of many problems to come.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
homefry 10/3/2023 7:56:46 AM (No. 1568214)
physical or cognitive disabilities.)
On the part of the baby mama.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
broken01 10/3/2023 8:33:24 AM (No. 1568242)
This doesn't surprise me. You have bad parents who breed bad children. Who themselves become bad adults. Who folks like me have to deal with in the work force. Parents are the first line of defense for their kids. We must teach them the aspects of life progression. That includes potty training in a timely manner. Good responsible parents know this but like I said so don't. That's why we have this growing trend.
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