Tag: toilet training
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Ancient Greek Potty Chairs | Baby History Shorts
In ancient Greece, baby potties doubled as baby chairs, on this wine jug, or chous, from the 5th century bce, the baby is playing with a rattle. At the bottom of a cup a woman interacts with a baby in a potty chair. And on this oil jug, a woman stands next to a baby…
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Beng Babies of the Côte d’Ivoire
The majority of ethnographies focus on the culture of adults or verbal children, babies, if considered at all, are described in the context of their relationships to adults and older children. In 2004, Alma Gottlieb published a unique ethnography, The Afterlife is Where We Come From: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa based on Beng people…
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