maybe you could advise some of those parents in the UK then, Az. 🙂

 

Actually I think the generation in discussion is born in the 1990s

From the opening post - If the figure is representative of schools across England, it could mean that up to 1,600 of the 16,000 primary schools in the country have at least one pupil over the age of five still wearing a nappy.

That could mean 14 400 primary schools have no pupils over the age of 5 still wearing a nappy..

16000 schools with an estimated 200 pupils in each school = 3.2 m students.

The cause given though is use of disposable nappies., which are not a recent invention, so how can the blame be put on them, if this problem hasn't affected previous generations of babies/children who wore disposables?

Some children have psychological reasons why they don't get toilet training.

Parents look forward to when they don't have to buy disposable nappies...no expense then..

Cloth nappies are still used by some parents ( ones who care about landfill etc).

It's a news report, Am. No need to overhtink it.

 

I appreciate your effort, tho. 🙂

I was replying to your comment which said the article is about children of the 1990,s not years before that, which doesn't take into account disposables have been around for 25+ years.

Nothing wrong with analysing info in am article instead of blindly believing everything in the media. Nothing to do with overthinking.

This is one junior school teachers comment on why she thinks parents aren't toilet training their children.. They are too busy ( both work) to pay proper attention to their children.

"I believe that so much of basic childcare is outsourced today - from hiring tutors to help children with their homework, to resorting to after-school clubs when neither mum nor dad can make pick-up time - that some parents actually see it as a teacher's duty to do this most intimate of tasks for them."


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2617186/Why-I-blame-middle-class-mothers-six-year-olds-sen...

"Actually I think the generation in discussion is born in the 1990s..."

How many children born in the 1990's would still be at primary school (which the majority of students in this article are) now? LOL

The report I read did not say the reason was the normal disposable nappies they said they put the blame on the newer pull up nappies which a child can pull up and down on their own.  Because they have the choice of using the toilet or peeing themselves they are not learning proper toilet training and believe the pull ups should not be used and that a child should be going from normal nappies to underwear once they have been toilet trained.

 

None of my friends have used the pull ups and all of them had their children toilet trained by the age of 3 one is still toilet training her 2 year old at the moment.

Thats stupid.

Those stupid pull-ups have been around since before I even had my kids and they are 14 and 16.

 

I never used pull-ups on my kids. Some of my SIL's did and they had 4 and 5 year olds with nappy rash who peed in their beds and all over themselves for many more years than was necessary. 

 

In my experience, a few weeks of incovenience and pee on the floor is preferable to months and even years worth of nappy rash and paying for plastic "pull ups".

 

It must be hell for the children whose entire genitalia are encased in plastic wraps for years on end.

 

Imagine having your butt encased in a plastic wrap all day?

 

 

I imagine it would be very hot, sweaty and uncomfortable.