Posted on 08/27/2007 1:47:41 PM PDT by Sopater
SUTTON, Mass. — Thirteen-month-old Dominic Klatt stopped banging the furniture in the verandah, looked at his mother and clasped his right hand around his left wrist to signal that he needed to go to the bathroom.
His mother took the diaper-less tot to a tree in the yard, held him in a squatting position and made a gentle hissing sound — prompting the infant to relieve himself on cue before he rushed back to play.
Dominic is a product of a growing "diaper-free" movement founded on the belief that babies are born with an instinctive ability to signal when they have to answer nature's call. Parents who practice the so-called "elimination communication" learn to read their children's body language to help them recognize the need, and they mimic the sounds that a child associates with the bathroom.
Erinn Klatt began toilet training her son at birth and said he has not wet his bed at night since he was six months old.
"The nice part is ... really getting the majority of poops in the toilet versus having to clean that," Klatt said. "I don't have to wake up at night and change diapers or have wet sheets anywhere. That's really nice.
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Exactly! What fun is there in being liberal and progressive if you can’t make sure everyone around you knows it by your outrageous and/or peculiar behavior!
Spoken like a true man.
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Thank you!
Frequently, so I learned to crawl under the dining room table and blame the dog.
Sure. Just cut off all nourishment at 3 PM.
No doubt about it. It's more about a liberal "movement" than than about a babies bowel movement.
Liberals make me sick.
You just invented the Mouth Diaper!
Pretty “fly.”
Well, aren't most liberal movements full of it???
People I have known of who did this either used the toilet o a little potty chair.
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