Posted on 04/23/2007 3:17:15 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
This is not the way it happens with the moms I know. They diaper them in public. You have developed a fantasy scenerio to gripe about. And the ones I know are not recruiting others for “green” purposes. They have simply made a personal choice that is out of the mainstream.
I honor the choices of people who have kids as long as they are not being abused or neglected. How about you?
“Parents are urged to get in tune with their infant’s body signals and hold babies over toilets, buckets and shrubbery or any other convenient receptacle when nature calls.”
“...shrubbery...” is a convenience? Now we really can be like Europe and third world countries where there is no taboo on bodily functions in public.
Wait until the baby does something on the seat of the Prius! I see another generation of guilty parents in the making!
Just what we want to see is half naked kids running around.
“Chase rug rat around with a pooper scooper.”
Naw, they’d have their nanny do it, and then the maid clean up. And if they go to washable diapers, then they can have the maid wash that too.
My only encounter was with the woman mentioned at the church picnic. No thanks.
Well, safety issues are a concern and a little kid running around with it all hanging out is in dnager of seriously injuring himself. So the parents can explain to junior when he’s older that they their version of potty training was so wonderful.
Besides, the point of the article is not whether letting them run around naked to potty train them is a good idea or not; it’s about the whacko greenies who think lack of diapers is *earth friendly*, which based on third world countries and the filth they live in, is not.
Most people who do diaperless I would hope are more responsible than that.
This reminds me of the time back in the 70s when my father, a hippie wannabe, attended a lecture given by his “guru” Krishnamurti. It was held out in Ojai, a famously counterculture enclave near central California.
While he & my cynical mother (who called his guru “Kookoomurti”) were watching the usual assortment of freaks, along walked a little girl of about two. Stark naked.
“Isn’t that beautiful,” my father gushed, apparently believing her closer to nature than either of them.
Suddenly he noticed, popping out of the little girl’s behind, a bunch of BMs.
“Eww,” he said.
My mother cracked up. She loved to tease him about this episode.
Well, it’s one for one against right now, in my book.
And with the way so many people can’t even be bothered to pick up after their own dogs, or not throw trash out the car window, or any other discourteous action, I’m not so hopeful.
I am not speaking to the article. I am speaking from my personal observation of this method. From that I think it works, is not harmful, but would not choose it were I still of the age to have children.
Take his diaper off, and he would pee.
How was his aim?
There’s the “before” picture. Where’s the “after?”
“Natec maintains that plastic diapers “can take 500 years to decompose.””
SO!?
500 years will go by anyway.
“We’re talking about free-ranging toddlers here.”
My Free Ranging laying hens are bad enough. I can’t even imagine having let my three boys do this. They could barely hit the toilet as it was, LOL!
What a bunch of Kookburgers!
I chose my user name well. It says just what leftist thought is. Demented!
In the early ‘80s, I was in the Army stationed at Ft. Hood, Texas. Lived off post in beautiful Killeen. A couple houses down, across the street lived a nice couple with two babies. The man had been stationed in South Korea and brought home a wife - and a mother-in-law.
Grandma stayed home with the kids while the parents worked. More than once, my wife and I saw grandma with a small kid in the front yard. Naked from the waist down (the kid), taking a dump in the yard and being hosed off by grandma.
We walked our dog on our side of the street.
Disgusting, but then most people don’t seem to think picking up after their dogs is necessary, either, the freaking pigs.
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