Bed Wetting, Feeding, and Pull-ups!

Class on Monday was very informative on the secrets of feeding your children, potty training your children, and why they may wet the bed at night. All in all I was brought back to my experiences of being a baby-sitter. Of course I don't sit on babies, but I do enjoy watching my neighbors three children!

Professor Welkowitz stated that pull-ups are evil, and just prolong the torture of potty training. I may have to agree with him, because if a child has a diaper that has cool designs on it like children's underwear and literally you pull them up like underwear, then why would a child decide to use the toilet. My parents did not get me the cool designed pull-ups, instead they bribed me. Yup my parents bribed me with candy! M & M's to be exact... no wonder I like those things! Well anyways it work so I guess I will have to thank them next time we talk.

Also during class Larry demonstrated on a classmate of mine, how he would feed his daughter. Now this is exactly why I do NOT sit in the front row! He went at her with the remote to the projector, and talked about how he wouldn't do the cool airplane or force his daughter to eat. Instead he sent her the message that if SHE wanted it then SHE had to come and get it! Now that makes sense and all but come on now, every parent wants to have some fun in feeding their kids and what better fun than making airplane noises!

Eventually the conversation went on to bed wetting... Larry talked about possible reasons for why bed wetting occured, one of which was that the child slept to deeply. Or they could not distinguish the signals that they had to use the bathroom until it was too late. So he brought out this device that a child would wear, and one end would go into the diaper and the other would attach to a shirt or an arm. When the child started to pee the device would make a loud noise and it would in theory wake the child so they would begin through classical conditioning, to recongize the signals. Now if I were a child I would run if my parents brought home this device. It just is scary with the tangle of wires, and a loud noise no thank you!

Well that is all for now, I am going to study now for our awesome test on Wednesday