Strengthened Awareness of Bladder Behavior

Diaper alarms work!

But before I get to that, did you know that in the 1940s, kids were usually toilet trained when they were 18 months old? Today, that average is 21–36 months! Dang. If the test of a civilization’s progress is toilet training, we’re blowing it.

Anyway, in case your issue of Neurology and Urodynamics hasn’t come in yet, it has the results of tests on a diaper with a musical poop/pee alarm. To sum it up: They work at getting kids toilet-trained. This is good news for the day-care providers in the U.S., who are in charge of 60% of all kids under five.

With those kinds of numbers, most kids get toilet training at day-care. And a diaper alarm helps day-care providers keep track of poopy bottoms.

A man named Jean-Jacques Wyndaele who co-authored the diaper study said, “The [diaper] alarm itself distracts the child out of his activity and strengthens the awareness of bladder behavior.” Yes! (More info here.)