‘Diaper-free babies’ fad swells, despite critics ( Archived) (4)

“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…
Isis Arnesen, 33, of Boston, has a 14-week-old daughter, Lucia, who is diaper-free. She said it can be awkward to explain the process to people, such as when she helped Lucia relieve herself in a sink at a public restroom.”

I won’t even go into the psychological and physical aspects of this one, but I will say that these parents should not be letting their kids relieve them in public places such as the two examples above. Not even our dogs are allowed to leave piles, and peeing in sinks is just plain gross and unsanitary. Knew a Russian woman who told me about this years ago, but I doubt she ever had her kids doing this in public like the two above.

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