Hipster Parents Letting Their Kids Piss And Shit Everywhere
NY Times – When Jada Shapiro decided to raise her daughter from birth without diapers, for the most part, not everyone was amused. Ms. Shapiro scattered little bowls around the house to catch her daughter’s offerings, and her sister insisted that she use a big, dark marker to mark the bowls so that they could never find their way back to the kitchen. My sister wasn’t a huge fan,” she said on Thursday. But “elimination communication,” as the diaper-free method of child-rearing is called, is finding an audience in the hipper precincts of New York City. Ms. Shapiro, who is a doula, a birth and child-rearing coach, says it is practically now a job qualification to at least be able to offer diaper-free training as an option to clients. Caribou Baby, an “eco-friendly maternity, baby and lifestyle store” on the border of artsy Greenpoint and Williamsburg, has been drawing capacity crowds to its diaper-free “Meetups,” where parents exchange tips like how to get a baby to urinate on the street between parked cars. Parents are drawn to the method as a way of preserving the environment from the ravages of disposable diapers, as well as reducing the laundering of cloth diapers and preventing diaper rash. Many of them like the thought that they are rediscovering an ancient practice used in other cultures, though they tend to gloss over the fact that many of those cultures had never heard of Pampers. But mostly, they say, they like feeling more in touch with their babies’ most intimate functions. “I think for a lot of parents, the motivation is just to be more in tune with what their kids’ needs are.”
Well it doesn’t surprise me one bit that the first picture and video are of Asians. I don’t think thats a “hipster” trend or anything over there. I think they are just complete social misfits who don’t see the problem with their children pissing and shitting all over the floor like untrained puppies. But these hipster moms in America holding their kids over the toilet to shit have gotta be fucking kidding me. How can you possibly know when to dangle a baby over the bowl? Absolutely no way to tell when they’ve gotta go or what they gotta do. You think the just schedule it regularly and hold them over the bowl until they start to shit? Just wait as long as it takes? Its just the most impractical thing in the whole world. And really no benefit. “reducing the laundering of cloth diapers?” Who the fuck uses cloth diapers? “Preventing diaper rash?” Oh yea thats a big one lets see how we can fix that – Option A) Baby powder and cream of B) Making your child shit in public like a goddam animal? Fucking idiots. Let your kid shit in Huggies for a couple years and then teach them to use the bowl just like every other child for the past like 150 years.
