Diaper-Free Movement Finally Getting Coverage
After years of being side-lined and dismissed while diaper companies produce diapers for children as old as ten, elimination communication is finally getting some coverage. Check out this quote from a Yahoo News article on the subject:
- 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.
Thank goodness this topic is finally being discussed in mainstream media. Our environment can’t take the stress of our diaper addictions any longer.
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2 opinions for Diaper-Free Movement Finally Getting Coverage
jeanie
Aug 28, 2007 at 11:36 pm
We did a version of this with my daughter - time consuming - yes, but then as a doting mother of a sole child I could afford it - and the rewards justify!
kbaggott
Aug 29, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Jeanie- I found it easier with my first than I do with our second, but I agree the rewards to everyone are worth it.
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