Many parents will let their children wear diapers until they are 3 or 4 years old for the sake of convenience and saving time, while some parents are anxious to start putting poop and diapers on their children when they are 1 or 2 years old …… Which practice is incorrect? 1. Wearing diapers for children is not meant to save the adults’ time. Diapers do ease the burden of parenting while reducing the disturbance to the baby, and we push to let nature take its course and quit. However, as your child grows up, the necessity of diapers for your child will gradually diminish and will gradually reveal its drawbacks. If you are just trying to save time and convenience, you will make your child overly dependent on diapers. If your baby is already older and is still in diapers around the clock, he or she may learn to hold his or her urine later than babies who don’t wear diapers, making it easier for them to wet the bed. One baby was still wetting the bed when he was almost 6 years old. Because the parents thought it was a problem to get up at night, they kept putting diapers on the baby when he went to bed to make sure he would stay awake all night. The bad thing is that in the long run, when the child grows up to urinate at night, he or she cannot establish a good neural reflex and cannot wake up, so bedwetting is easy to understand. So if you find that your baby is still wetting the bed a lot after the age of 5, then you need to think about whether you have been using diapers for too long before? Babies develop a habit of peeing whenever they want to, and their bladders have no opportunity to exercise, so they can’t control their bowel movements. 2.Don’t let the peeing thing harm your child! “Peeing and pooping” seems to have become a must-do in child rearing. Parents like a good discussion as soon as the baby can sit and stand to try to give the baby to pee, and even exchange experience with each other. But in fact, “peeing and pooping” itself is contrary to, and deprives babies of, the ability to control themselves, and peeing and pooping too early is not good for children at all! It is better to “train” a child to urinate or defecate on his own than to wait for him to feel uncomfortable afterwards. Parents who want their children to learn to urinate and defecate on their own as early as possible often work hard and fail to achieve the expected results. Children generally feel the discomfort of urination and defecation in diapers at the age of 2 or 2.5, and will give parents accurate signals before defecation. Parents then just need to take their children to sit on the potty to make them form a relationship between defecation and the potty, and they will soon establish normal defecation habits. If you emphasize it too early, it is easy to cause the child to resist internally, which often backfires. At what age is it best to stop using diapers? Research by the American Academy of Pediatrics shows that a child’s bowel control muscles generally reach maturity between 12 and 24 months, with an average age of 18 months. The order of maturation of daytime and nighttime bowel control is: nighttime bowel control >> daytime bowel control >> daytime urinary control >> nighttime urinary control. So, parents can do this: Before 1.5 years old: Use diapers as much as possible so that your baby can poop and pee as he/she wants, without causing psychological burden, and can sleep well. After 1.5 years old or from 2 years old: Try to remove diapers during the day and train your child to pee in the potty or toilet; you still need to use diapers at night and gradually remove them as your child’s ability to control urine increases. Before 3 years old: Although the child cannot learn to urinate and defecate on his own, he can develop good habits of urination and defecation, and it is best to stop using diapers after the age of 3. However, the time to “quit” diapers is different for each baby, depending on the baby’s physiological development, whether the parents have educated him/her in advance, and whether there are good role models in life. In general, when a child is physiologically mature enough, it is a good time to “quit” diapers. For example, the child is able to sit on the toilet, express his physical needs, and know that he needs to take off his pants to urinate and defecate. Tips: When babies are not able to urinate on their own, it is best to wear diapers, which are not only convenient, but also clean. If you are worried that the diaper will cover the child, you can change it after urination or defecation. In addition, as long as the child does not use diapers, should wear underwear, regardless of whether the boy or girl, wear diapers or cloth underwear, can play a very good protective role. Note: Never give your child open crotch pants.