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RETROSPECTIVE EVALUATION OF INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE OF «TOILET EDUCATION» IN CHILDREN

Abstract

The article analyzes an international experience of «toilet education» practice in infants. It was marked that the most wide-spreaded approach to the children’s education to sanitary and hygienic skills is Brazelton’s method or, so-called, «approach with orientation to child». The method was directed, firstly, to the presence (or absence) in child signs of preparedness to the beginning of education: ability to sit properly, independently walk and sit on the pot; presence of understanding the purpose of pot and/or toilet sink purpose; presence of phrase speech (consisting at least of 2 words) or the signs of its near appearance; ability to signal with words or gesture to the need of physiological act performing; skill or attempt to take off paints-nappy (or panties) and tights by himself during the attempt to use a pot. Such approach can be estimated as physiological and maximal effective. According to the present recommendations (including the ones from experts of the Union of pediatricians of Russia) a «toilet education» should be started when the child is 18-months old.
Key words: children, «toilet education», Brazelton’s method.
(Voprosy sovremennoi pediatrii — Current Pediatrics. 2009;8(5):52-55)

About the Authors

V.M. Studenikin
Scientific Center of Children’s Health, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow
Russian Federation


S.M. Sharkov
Scientific Center of Children’s Health, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow
Russian Federation


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Studenikin V., Sharkov S. RETROSPECTIVE EVALUATION OF INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE OF «TOILET EDUCATION» IN CHILDREN. Current Pediatrics. 2009;8(5):52-55.

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