Oct 18, '06 - Infant Potty Training Asian Style!!!
In the United States, it is widely taken for granted that children should wear diapers until they show a willingness to be potty trained sometime between the ages of two and five....
In the United States, it is widely taken for granted that children should wear diapers until they show a willingness to be potty trained sometime between the ages of two and five. However, in most of the world, particularly in Asia, parents begin helping their children use the potty (or eliminate outside) when they are still infants. Stay tuned for our show tonight as we interview Laurie Boucke, an American woman, who has practiced, researched, written about, and promoted Infant Potty Training in the United States and other industrialized countries for the past 28 years. She will tell us about the history and controversies of Infant Potty Training, how she first learned about the method from an Indian woman, and how the movement has grown dramatically in the West since then.
For more info on IPT please consult the following websites
pottywhisperer.com
white-boucke.com
DiaperFreeBaby.org
BIOS:
Raj Mankad will be interviewing author Laurie Boucke. Raj has been involved with Border Crossings off and on for over a year, most recently interviewing Nobel Prize recipient Amartya Sen. He is a writer and activist here in Houston.
Laurie Boucke has been researching infant potty training since using it with her third son in 1979. She is the author of three books on the subject. Her most popular book is Infant Potty Training: A Gentle and Primeval Method Adapted to Modern Living, which has been translated into Italian, German, and Dutch. Her work on infant potty training has been written about in the New York Times, The Boston Globe, and other major newspapers. Her documentary, Potty Whispering, is scheduled to be released in November 2006. She kindly joins us for a live interview from Boulder, Colorado.
