"There is no ideal age. You do it when the child is
ready and that's more of a range. With girls it's two to two-and-a-half
years, with boys two-and-a-half to three years. 'Training' is a
misnomer. You can't train kids. They do what they're ready to do." —
Charles I. Shubin, MD, FAAP. Baltimore, MD
"I usually start talking about it at 18 months, but it's not
completed until the child is about to start preschool. I always let the
child initiate the process." — Erin Thelander, MD, FAAP. Brooklyn, NY.
"When a child shows that they are interested — before age five." — Erik Cohen, MD, FAAP. Greenwich, CT.
To
obtain these results, Babble randomly called 300 AAP-approved pediatricians
in 50 states, then tallied the answers of the 20 who called back. Pediatrician Poll appears in Strollerderby every Friday.
