Why is it easier for most adults to hold their urine, than for children?
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– “Most adults” is a huge population compared to children.
– Which adults? Tell that to a 70 year old.
– Children are undeveloped and holding urine is a learned behavior.
There’s a few different reasons,
But its mostly just learning how to control the bladder. It isn’t something we instinctually know, and we have to learn how to actually control bladder muscles to control our bathroom needs
Like, adults can push pee streams out harder, that uses the muscle that we use to control the bladder. It takes about 4-5 years to learn how to control and use it
My understanding is that children don’t recognise the sensation/feel need for the toilet until their bladder is really full whereas adults have learned to recognise the sensation/feel the need earlier.
The other thing is that even once a child learns to recognise the sensation that suggest they might need to go to the bathroom sometime soon..they’ll ignore the sensation and carry on doing whatever is they were doing until they have little choice but to take notice of the sensation/urge and then they’re desperate.
Everything is easier for adults. Humans are complex creatures, and the learning curve is pretty damn steep compared to other animals. It takes time, experience and practice to learn how to read your body’s signals, and control your actions according to them. It’s not just bladder control; kids fucking suck at controlling their bodies lol. This is even more obvious to me since I got kids of my own. They can’t do *anything* physically demanding. It’s not really because their muscles are weak, but because they can’t coordinate their muscles.
For example, when a young child tries to lift something heavy, they’ll just strain every muscle in every direction. The net effect of that often ends up being zero, because they’re activating as many antagonistic muscles as they are activating agonistic muscles. They basically just become stiff and fall over haha.
This is also apparent when people with no prior experience start weightlifting. They’ll see *massive* strength gains in the first few months. This isn’t mostly because their muscles are getting significantly stronger, but because they are quickly learning how to actually coordinate their muscles to all move in the same direction.
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