NINA NEEDS TO GO IS AN EXAMPLE OF EVERYTHING WRONG WITH SOCIETY

1. Deal with things when they become a problem rather than try to prevent them. How about Nina goes to the bathroom before she leaves the house, or before the family starts doing whatever it's doing.

2. The parents are whipped. Rather than asking, how about insist Nina use the bathroom.

3. No matter how badly you screw up and no matter how much that screwing up is your own fault, someone will always come along and bail you out.

4. Break rules if you have to in order to get what you want or need.

5. There are no consequences. Nina never fails to make it to the bathroom, thus having an accident and being embarrassed.

6. There's no real expectation of change. You can't keep saying "Never gonna do that again" and "Now I know" and yet keep doing the same stupid thing over and over and over again.

This show is co-created with Pullups in hopes that children will emulate Nina and start wetting their pants again, causing you to give up on toilet training altogether and keep your kids in diapers forever.

HERE'S LOOKIN AT YOU, DIAPER KID

This blog is candid, eye-opening, informative and inspiring. I wonder where Jane is today and how she's doing.

CALL A SPADE A SPADE AND A DIAPER A DIAPER

I could not agree more heartily with this woman. Take that, political correctness.

PULLUPS training pants SUCK

("Some People Are Dumb" is a well-beloved feature of the Alex Horton Blog and is based on a line from the classic film "Beavis and Butt-head do America.")

When it first came out in the eighties, the idea behind them was to make a fifty gallon drum full of money by extending the diaper wearing age. The idea which was a front for this was that, if a child just learning to use the toilet had a disposable garment that would absorb accidents to a high degree, this would help the child toilet train faster and save parents (overwhelmingly mothers back in them days) the extra work of having to wash soiled underwear or cloth training pants. However, as countless toddlers have demonstrated, this product got used just like a diaper instead.

The marketing of these products as "just like big kid underwear" with the trademark jingle "Mommy, wow, I'm a physically more mature human at this present time" was put forth by people who clearly don't understand little children. Toddlers don't grasp nuances. Yes, to you, Mom, and to you, sleezy diaper company executive, these concoctions of paper and faux-cloth plastic do indeed seem like real underwear and, granted, are capable of being pulled up and down by little ones. Thing is, the kiddos don't see it that way. To them these objects feel and, they discover, work just like diapers. They're not capable of understanding "This is like a diaper only because it's meant to help if I have an accident, but I'm supposed to poop and pee in the potty now."

Granted, there have been some situations in which these disposable training pants have worked, but I'll talk about those in another post. For now, please enjoy reading my name and the date and time this was posted.

PARENTS, THAT LEAKY DIAPER WILL BE SOMETHING YOU'LL LAUGH ABOUT IN THE FUTURE

This is so heartening. It's moments like this you remember most as a parent; not the things you think you'll remember

YES, SHE DOES POO HERE OFTEN

Regarding the article in Maclean's a few weeks back about parents having parties to encourage their kids to toilet train, don't let it get to that point.