Let’s talk about potty-training “readiness” At birth, babies do not like to be soiled or wet and will readily go if held over a potty (baby pottying is usually called Elimination Communication). But the more we diaper our babies the more used to them they get... until they’re willful toddlers who are very set in their ways. Then we try to potty-train and the child refuses! Parents often think the child is just “not ready”, when in reality the child was ready long ago but the window of opportunit