Reply To: White kids late to potty train?

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Kate
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I don’t think this is a black or white thing. It’s very common in Europe and the former Soviet Union to potty train early (12 months or so). This could be because diapers are expensive and laundry facilities for cloth diapers are less widely available (definitely an issue in the former Soviet Union), or it could be a matter of custom. According to the ‘What to Expect’ books, though, this early potty training is really just a matter of parents training themselves to recognize when the kid needs to go and parking him/her on a toilet in time to avoid accidents. For what it’s worth, I personally favored late potty training (3.25 years for my sons) because they were better equipped physically to ‘hold it’ if there wasn’t a toilet nearby and they were already able to dress and undress themselves, wash their own hands, etc.

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