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Using Elimination Communication With Infants - Does it Really Work?
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I saw a headline on the front of Parenting magazine yesterday - 'what your baby's really thinking' - and it reminded me of a semi-argument one of my fellow uni students had (I'm studying psychology) with a lecturer last semester about using elimination communication. While this woman was rather gung-ho about using elimination communication, and how her then-infant daughter used to 'communicate' when she needed to pee or poop, I thought the lecturer's response was a classic - "Well it certainly sounds like she had you well-trained, doesn't it?" And I really think that's what it comes down to. I've heard so many people sing the praises of using elimination communication, but until a child is physically ready (ie they have sufficient control to know when they need to use the bathroom and get there in time) using elimination communication seems more about how well a parent can tell if their baby needs to pee or poop than the baby 'communicating' the need.
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feisty_leo
(female, late-20s)
(Posted 11/25/07)
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Abonot
(12/15):
I neither disagree or agree with your lecture! I have a 7 week old baby and after I had to do two loads of washing every single day for cloth nappies. I thought there must be a better way, how did people do in other cultures. We tried our own way and then learn about EC. As a student of psychology I have to agree that it is a learning process for us and for our little boy. We used classical conditioning to pair up a sound (NS) with an unraleted stimulus, doing a wee or a poo. Everytime Giac did a wee or a poo we did the sound, not after not before but during. after a couple of weeks we were able to start using operant conditioning to give positive affirmation. At the same time we looked at Giac non stop for signals, he does a thing with his lips when he need to poo, and he stares at a blank spot and wiggle his arm when he need to do a wee. When we see the signals we take the nappy of and make the sound. We are all learning here. But he is now 7 weeks and we are down to 1/2 a load of nappies a day. So it is training him as much as training us, you have to have the time and the willingness to follow and spent all the time with your baby, and this work for us. A lot of cultures don't use nappies and they do spend most of the time with their kids. A child at birth have only one way to communicate, and it is by crying, but they have different way of doing in it. That's how they are physically equipped to survive. Then when their motordevelopment reaches a stage in which they can communicate in other ways then I am sure he will do that at around 3-4 months, then it will change again with the first words. So it is a complete nonsense that newborn are not physically ready! We are animals after all.
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Anonymous
(9/22):
turd
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