Chapter 7

"Toilet Training: How and When?" caught my attention while reading Chapter 7. While reading the text, I liked relating it back to my own childhood. The psychoanalytic theory stated that infants should potty trained during the first stage(oral stage) when the time of trust is crucial. Barry Brazelton was a pediatrician recommended that potty training should not begin until the infant/child is cognitively, emotionally, and biologically ready. This usually takes place around the age of 2.  This theory later got rejected. The next method proposed that children were potty trained whenever the child and parent wished. In today's day and age the second method is definitely what most parents use. This goes the same for my parents while potty training me. I called my mom to see what age and why that age. I started potty training around 1 1/2 years old simply because my mom thought I was up to the challenge to didn't want to wait to long. During the reading, they discussed that some people wait to potty train their child until they are older like 3 years of age. I wouldn't personally start then, but they do make a good point of that it is easier to train when a child is older. On the other hand I wouldn't start 33 days after birth like a mother did in the text.