E-mails from Real Nappies For London (LCRN)?

[Rosebud05]

Does anyone else receive these?

I opened one yesterday, to find a round-robin e-mail about potty training, advising that babies can be clean at a year, dry at 18 months and out of nappies at night by 2 or 3 years. Bizarre.

I e-mailed back to say that this unaccurate advice doesn't really reflect the reality of most parents' experiences and to ask what the purpose of sending e-mails like this is.

I received a reply this morning talking about not wanting parents to miss the optimum window for potty training and containing this paragraph -

"Single-use nappies allow parents to ignore their child?s needs to be clean and dry. Normally parents ignore naughty behaviour to stop the child getting the reward of attention for naughty/silly behaviour. It?s very effective. But when the parent suddenly decides they want the child to notice, it?s a problem."

I e-mailed back saying, in effect, "eh?" and received a reply patronising me for making a difference by using cloth nappies and a repeat of her earlier e-mail.

I know that I'm procrastinating working , but I really am uneasy about a agency promoting reusable nappies spouting such clap-trap.

Goodness, I sound like a loon now I've read it through, but I'm going to press 'send' as I've typed such a long e-mail.

i agree with the "eh?" as that paragraph doesn't make any sense to me. I don't think they shoudl be emailing about potty training in that manner either - Some people would see it as them pressurising parents to potty train before they or the child are ready which doesn't help anyone. What business is it of their's anyway, they are just giving themselves and reuseable nappies a bad / for weirdo's reputation in my view.

I'm confused. What does naughty behaviour have to do with potty training?

Take yourself off that mailing list.

They are mad. Esentially what they're saying is "Your child will be dry at a year old, so you won't need to buy any more of our nappies." Incidentally, what size/age do their nappies go up to?

I don't expect we'll be seeing them on Dragons' Den anytime soon.

I maybe wrong but I though they weren't selling nappies but promoting the use of real nappies and offering incentives if you lived in London. I don't live in London so I may be well be wrong. Our equivalent is Real Nappies Wales I think.

I wish I lived in London as I've just bought some more washables and could've used the discount. We have no such scheme where I live.

Ah, I thought they sold nappies.

But it's still bollocks. Naughty behaviour fgs.

Thanks for your replies. Have received another e-mail explaining that the original e-mail was referring to elimination communication - apparently, many parents are concerned about missing the early 'window of opportunity' to PT their little ones. Oh, yes.

I've written back and suggested that if she wishes to send such e-mails in the future, she should make explicit reference to EC so that readers can do their own research (this is the purpose of a site promoting reusable nappies sending e-mails about potty training, she says) and put claims about 'most babies being clean and dry by 18 months' in context.

Yes, Real Nappies for London is about promoting the use of cloth and giving incentives - this is why the PT e-mail pissed me off a bit as it's not their remit. The incentives are great and I did really appreciate the £54s.

No response to my queries about 'naughty behaviour' though. My concern was that the EC stuff might undermine first time PTers confidence and present an inaccurate picture.

Oh, well. Maybe I've got late PT syndrome or something. My dd was in nappies until she was nearly 3 (new baby main factor, I think), then informed me that she didn't want to wear them any more and that was that.