I have spoken before about how I don't think kids should be potty trained until they are ready. I don't think there needs to be a closed limit on that either. If Valerie wants to stay in diapers until high school, then why shouldn't she? I would think that could start changing herself at some point if she wanted some independence, but at the same time, I wouldn't mind changing her the whole time either. This is also the same reason that I have no problem putting eight year old Bailey, or even sixteen year old Beth back in diapers if they need them.
I recently got an email from a Social Worker from Child Services, named Fran, here in the great state of Ohio, about a case that she had this past summer.
A seventeen year old girl, from California, was road tripping with some boys across the country. The boys wouldn't pull over to let her use the potty and forced her to stick her bottom of out the car window, and poop. It turns out, a Highway patrolman was driving behind them, and got a very dirty windshield.
He pulled them over and questioned the teenagers. It turns out that the girl was the only one under eighteen, so he arrested the boys for child endangerment and neglect. He took the girl to the police station, when they found out that she was from out of state, and her parents could not come to get her for a week they called me. When I found her sitting on a chair, wrapped in a pink baby blanket, with her pants and panties around her ankles. After I stood her up and inspected her, I found that she had poop still smeared all over her bottom. I asked her how old she was, she said seventeen.
I looked at her sternly and said, "No one taught you hoe to wipe your bottom? I know five year olds who know how to wipe their bottoms better than this." I told her to wait there, I went to the car and grabbed my diaper bag. I saw her eyes get huge as I walked in with the pink diaper bag and a nursery print changing pad. I spread the changing pad on the couch, and pulled out a container of baby wipes. I wiped her standing up, dismissing all of her excuses about why she wasn't acting mature, before I asked her if she needed to use the potty before I dressed her. She made a stink about how she was a big girl and could dress herself, but I told her that if that was true, she wouldn't have been standing with her pants and panties around her who knows how long.
I told her, "Since you don't know how to wipe, I'm going to put you in diapers so we can do it for you." Before instructing her to lay on the changing pad. "Little girls who don't know how or where to go potty have to wear diapers." She gave in and laid down on the changing mat. I took a baby diaper out of the diaper bag and slid it under her bottom, and finished wiping her, before putting rash cream all over her bottom, followed by baby powder, before taping the diaper snugly around her little waist.
I walked her out to my car in just her t-shirt and baby diaper, before getting her strapped into the carseat. She put up a fuss about that too, but I told her that toddlers have to sit in a carseat by law. I explained to her that a week as a toddler should be a fitting punishment for her immature behavior. I took her to a foster home, where she would be with some other children in diapers. Her foster mother was already looking after three other girls still in diapers, ages five, three and two.
She stayed there for a few days, until I learned that she was enjoying her punishment too much, so I made room for her at one of our Orphanages, and went and picked her up. I stripped her naked, and put her in cloth diaper, before taking her in just her diaper out the car, and driving her to Orphanage where she stayed as a seventeen month old, for the rest of her time in Ohio.
-Fan
I although I don't believe in diaper punishment, I think that this girl got what she deserved. She did something very immature, and she learned her lesson, that she should not take her freedom as a teenager for granted.
-Veronica
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