Cultured Views

I was reading this past week about something quite disturbing regarding a growing number of children in the United Kingdom; schools are seeing children – some as old as ten – who are still wearing diapers, or nappies.

This sounds freaky to me as a mother. Teachers are claiming that this is prevalent in children who have spent their baby/toddler years in fulltime nursery care – Mum is too busy to toilet train her child so leaves it to those in charge at the nursery. Those in charge at the nursery are also too busy to efficiently handle this important stage in a child’s development and so the problem develops – and stays. The companies who produce the adult diaper are now seeing a new market for their product; school kids – just how these kids cope at school worries me. What about sport, swimming – changeroom situations…?

Sadly, maybe, a sign of our times.

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