Did you ever notice, someone will invent a product that there is no need for. Now they go about creating that need; in order to sell that product. While this is business 101, there are certain problems with this approach. As an example; disposable diapers comes to mind. Before they came to be, children were generally toilet trained within the first year of life, most likely because the parents didn’t want to clean all those dirty cloth diapers anymore, but there was also no demand for disposable diapers, it hadn’t been invented yet.

So how do you create this need? Get some well know pediatricians, most likely paid by you, to say, “it harms your child’s self-esteem to be toilet trained that young”, so let them stay in diapers longer (especially now that disposable diapers were available). So today we have kids who 3 to 4 years old still craping in their shorts instead of the toilet. I have actually heard a parent complain that they don’t make diapers big enough for their child (Depends perhaps) who should have been using a toilet long ago. Pre K’s will even reject children who aren’t toilet trained, how’s that affect the child’s self-esteem? All this to sell more disposable diapers (let’s not even get into landfills). I believe we were better off in getting kids toilet trained earlier in life. I write this as my 3 year old (at the time of writing) stands next to me with their pants full of crap, Thanks! But then this is just my opinion.