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The advantages of early toilet training are obvious. In fact, they’re the same as the advantages for toilet training in general, you just get to enjoy them sooner. Parents are anxious to have their children trained for a variety of reasons. Caring for an untrained child takes more planning and a lot of equipment. Travel and baby-sitting are more cumbersome. Wet diapers can cause diaper rash. (One mother told me her daughter trained herself in one day to escape a particularly painful case of diaper rash.)

On the average, dealing with diapers consumes approximately ten hours a week for most parents. A year’s worth of disposable diapers is costly, as is a diaper service. Cloth diapers that you launder yourself are not as cheap as they would seem, when you consider the cost of detergent, electricity, and wear and tear on the laundry equipment, not to mention Mom and Dad. Some nursery schools won’t take children in diapers, or they may charge more for the inconvenience. All in all, life is a lot more pleasant and less complicated when diapers become a thing of the past. The attitude of most parents is “the sooner the better.”