Cleanliness Training

Scope Note

Adult beliefs, standards, and aims concerning sphincter control and cleanliness for children; normal age at beginning and completion of bladder and bowel control; techniques employed; bladder and bowel incontinence (e.g., incidence, parental reaction, treatment); methods of teaching children to wash, bathe, and groom themselves; teaching standards of cleanliness, neatness, and orderliness, reactions of children to cleanliness training; etc.