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From: jkr@gitpyr.UUCP (J. Kenneth Riviere)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Re: How do I get my kid off the bottle?!
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Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 14:35:55 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 31 14:35:55 1986
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Reply-To: jkr@gitpyr.UUCP (J. Kenneth Riviere)
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In article <2904@randvax.UUCP> jeanette@rand-unix.UUCP (Jeanette Haritan) writes:
>
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>A child does not do certain things *by instinct*.  A child has to be
>prodded, weaned, taught, trained.  A child does not say to himself
>"Say, I just turned three, perhaps I should give the bottle the ol'heave
>ho!"  This is similar to potty training.  A child does not wake up one
>morning and say "Perhaps I shall try the toilet for a change".  He has
>to be trained.
>
 A child will potty train himself and he will wean himself, not
 *by instinct* but because he wants to be like the people around
 him.  My son age 2.5 has started potty training himself. All it took
 was buying him a potty and telling him that " It won't be long
 before your bigger and you will be able to use the potty just
 like Mommy & Daddy" a few times. A  week ago I comprehended
 that 'ba-da-mo-men' ment that he was having a bowel movement. I
 told him that the next time he was having a bowel movement he
 should tell mommy and I would help him use the potty. The next 
 day he started running to the bath room shouting 'ba-da-mo-men'
 'ba-da-mo-men' ' ba-da-mo-men', we got him undressed just in
 time.  Since then everytime he has had a bowel movement
 while I was at home he has used the potty. When you don't try to
 make a child conform to someone elses idea of when he is ready
 to learn new behaviors you will find that the child will  learn
 them as soon as he is able. As for weaning, I have never tryed
 to wean my son. He has always been allowed to nurse whenever
 he wanted, but he is slowly weaning himself. Now he just wants
 to nurse before bedtime.

>A child HAS to give up the bottle at a certain time.  You don't want him
>to start his first day in kindergarten with his bottle simply because HE
>still wants it at that age.  
 Why not. How does it hurt you? How does it hurt the child? 
 O, you would be embarrassed because other people believe a child
 should be off the bottle by then. Well, if you care more about others
 reactions then your childs feelings, thats your, or should I say your
 childs, problem.



                               Jean McSpadden
-- 
J. Kenneth Riviere   (JoKeR)
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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