Can The Right Toddler Diapers Help Your Child Potty Train Sooner?

You change your child's diapers multiple times every day without thinking much about it.

Do you have a goal in mind? For your child's development, I mean.

You don't intend for that same child to change his own diapers at age 5, do you? You know that one day this child will one day use a toilet, just like you do, and just like the rest of our society does. Diapers are temporary, not a desired end state.

So, your goal is to help your child learn, over time, to be potty independent, right?

Well, then, did you choose your current toddler diapers based on their ability to move your child closer to that goal? Most likely you didn't, and most likely, they don't.

Unless you already use cloth diapers, every diaper change is a step away from potty independence, no matter what age your child is.

You see, children diapered in modern super-dry-feeling disposable diapers potty train later than children diapered in reusable cloth diapers. They don't know when they are wetting, because they don't feel wet; even briefly. Because of this, the average age of achieving daytime dryness has about doubled since 1960. That's back when 97% of diaper changes were old school cotton diapers.

Disposable diapers originated in response to the inconvenience of those old-school cloth diapers. Pins. Confusing origami folding and leaks galore. And on top of that, laundry. Compared to all of that, throw-away paper diapers WERE the ultimate in convenience. But now, reusable diapers can incorporate most of the same features that made disposables to easy to use. Snap or hook and loop closures. Waterproof outer layers. Snug leg and waist elastic to hold in leaks.

Still, it's easy to throw used diapers in the trash. Washing diapers takes extra time. You know what? That's true. It takes about 6 hours per month of active hands-on time to wash diapers every other day.

Here's the thing, though. You also spend at least 12 hours hours per month changing your toddler's diapers! So, if using these so-called conveniently disposable diapers keeps your child in diapers for even just an extra 3 months, the supposed time savings of using disposables instead are GONE.

That's 6000 diapers or so! And upwards of $1600 dollars!

So are you really keeping your child in diapers longer than necessary by choice?

There, I've said it.

By choosing disposable toddler diapers for your child, you are also choosing to delay a major child development milestone.

Is there any other development milestone that parents routinely delay through their actions??? I don't know of any. And I don't doubt you would feel like an awful parent if you were guilty of any of these...

Surely you wouldn't try to discourage your child from learning to walk?

I've never heard a parent tell their child not to say the alphabet, count to twenty or read a book.

And you wouldn't knowingly do things to prevent your child from learning to talk.

So don't make daytime dryness harder for your child to achieve, just because of the toddler diapers you chose last month or last year.

You can make a different choice right now.