Potty Training

"It's a big ask because what you effectively are asking the child to do is to give up on the rather impulsive activities that define them as infants," she says. "You're like, this little being that I love is doing the weirdest shit I've ever seen a human do." Before language, prior to potty training, kids pooped and peed whenever they felt like it; now there are certain times and places where you are allowed to poop and pee.