Chinese kids and nappies

Do some sums:

A nappy (or 'diaper' if you're American) costs about 1RMB.

Babies need at least 10 nappies a day.

Many local people earn about 800RMB per month.

admin wrote:yes, it's for ease of access to " nature's call"

I'm ambivalent about it.

On the one hand, I don't like looking at it and seeing humans doing their business in public makes me think we're no different from dogs.

just yesterday I was outside my apartment and the neighbors were holding their kid over the pond in the center of our compound so he could take a dump in it.

On the other hand, there are some merits to this:

-- it probably is more comfortable for the baby not to sh*t/piss in their pants
-- it's definitely more environmentally friendly (fewer diapers used)
-- [b]allegedly it allows the kid to be potty trained quicker (again, fewer diapers used)[/b]

Not true at all. When a child is able to somewhat communicate with you and able to express, you can potty train them by talking and teaching. It's just wrong for even a little child to do the 'business' in public in front of strangers. I've seen plenty of children who seemed to be around 3 years old doing their business in public with a bit of encouragement from their ayis or parents. If a child is about 2-3 years old, they can understand and comprehend simple sentences for sure. They also should be able to express that they need to use w.c. I wonder since when it became environment friendly to just sh!t on the middle of the street. I also think it's very unhealthy for a little child to walk around in BJ with out a nappie where it's so polluted and dusty.

it seems to be pollution vs pollution.

If you use the flap idea, then the kids are potty trained much much quicker. I see really quite small kids running around without nappies and without flaps/holes in their trousers and I am quite sure that western kids of that age would still be wearing nappies or trainer pants. I feel it is horses for courses, but I do agree that crapping in the street is going back to the dark ages when potties used to be emptied out of the window into the street.

However there are all those used nappies in the environment that do not degrade because of all the plastic in them. Soon the large holes in the ground will be filled up and all that will be left will be a piece of unuseable toxic land with pipes coming out of it to vent the methane and waste gases.

That only accounts for the stuff that will degrade and decompose and does not account for all the plastic that is down there until old Mother Earth decides to do a cleaning-up job. Maybe sooner than you think!!

Gordon wrote:Patrycia wrote:Why chinese kids i often meet ( <18 months) don wear nappies? You see them wearing a kind of cloth open with their ass out. A bit strange...

Firstly for the Chinese, when they are small they learn to pee and sh!t on the sidewalk or in the road want with no regard for anyone else. This prepares them in later life for business when they sh!t on each other.So true.

I lived in the Philippines for three years and both my kids used cotton nappies.

This IS the solution.

These people over here are used to open sewers and had, at one time a policy of using human waste to fertilize fields. That is why they never developed 'the salad'.

Sh!tting in the street or leaving your chamber pot outside was how the 'night soil' was gathered.

Basically, you have a bunch of farmers living in a small space who don't have a clue about what it is they are doing.