Reply from Joan, Child's Age 14 - 4/14/02 - IP#: 80.225.57.43Bob – I am afraid you have used statistical data to make a deduction, which cannot be supported by the original data. A bit like “men drive cars”, therefore “all cars are driven by men”. In your case it is “50% of kids become dry by waking in the night before they wet”, therefore “50% of kids in nappies/diapers may never become dry”. You are assuming that if the diapered kids happen to wake up before wetting, that they will choose to urinate in their diapers rather than get up and go to the toilet, whereas those kids not in diapers will go to the toilet when they wake up. The diapered kids will be used to a dry bed but a wet diaper, whereas the un-diapered kids will be used to a wet bed. I would suggest that there is an incentive to go to the toilet in both cases. In the first case it is due to the embarrassment of wearing diapers and in the second case it is the embarrassment and discomfort of a wet bed, but in this case the child is used to having a wet bed, so it is down to the embarrassment factor in both cases. I still say that you underestimate embarrassment as an incentive. I am sure that my son would jump at the chance of being out of nappies tomorrow if he could only wake up when he needed the toilet. As for last month’s poll, it is fatally flawed, as there is no indication as to what proportion of the responders wear diapers compared with those who don’t. The percentage of both groups who want a good night’s sleep could well be exactly the same. We cannot tell from the poll results. My guess would be that the majority of responders would be in diapers. For a completely different perspective, just look at this month’s poll. |