Diaper-Free Movement

There's a new trend in raising infants and toddlers where no diapers are used. Instead, the parent(s) read instinctive signals from the child and then react to get the child to a place where urination and defecation can occur.

As an example, a parent would read the child's body language, called "elimination communication," and know when it was time to scoot him/her off to the bathroom or another suitable elimination venue.

Devotees of the trend start the practice at birth of the child. The benefit of not having to buy diapers is trumpeted.

I don't know if this idea would work for most people. Parents probably don't have the time luxury to lord over a kid 24/7 in anticipation of some utterance of elimination communication. Right now, diaper-free sounds like a bunch of shinola, figuratively and literally. My final thoughts, however, will come after I bone up on the Berlitz of "elimination communication."

Even so, for unemployed, insomniac parents with obsessive-compulsive disorder, diaper-free sounds perfect.