it’s not just about the age they start school – an increasing number of older students also depend on diapers, and it’s not for health-related reasons.
Child development expert Rita Messmer once even had an eleven-year-old patient who wasn’t taught how to use the toilet on their own. The number of kids wearing diapers in school has “skyrocketed,” she told the “Sonntagszeitung.” She’s swamped with inquiries.
Educational scientist Margrit Stamm is familiar with the problem, too. Diapers have come a long way over the decades. Nowadays, they can be worn “like normal underwear,” she told the “Sonntagszeitung.” “So kids get conditioned to diapers.”
She went on, “Some parents let it slide, because diapers are a convenient relief. It’s not seen as a problem these days.” Apparently, there are parents who put their kids in diapers for outings, or because they want to sleep in a little longer in the morning. “That sends a totally wrong message,” says Stamm.
This sounds a lot like the panic over the myth of litter boxes in schools. I find it unlikely any kid who isn’t physically unable would have anyone else changing a diaper. It would be too mortifying and, unlike a peer with a disability, they could change it themselves.
As for wearing them at all, maybe they need to look into what’s going on in the bathrooms at school that would cause an otherwise physically capable child to opt for a diaper. If that part is at all true either. The whole story smells like a baseless moral panic.
As for parents putting kids in diapers on a trip. Well, if the kid is young and still a bit shaky on the toilet-at-night, it makes sense to use an overnight. They are in an unfamiliar place and might not get to the toilet in time. I sincerely doubt it is because the parents want to sleep late. Parents (or guardians) don’t get to do that even if their kid is a toileting champion. Plus lots of kids have problems with nighttime bed wetting and those problems have nothing to do with not learning to use the toilet
Last year, out of 15,000 students, it was one in a diaper. This year, it’s two. That’s a 100% increase!
A large percent increase is a good way of saying “little” that sounds like it means “big”. 
Sounds of metros and trams.
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