The Ultimate Body Language Book

instead. As people age, they become much more difficult to read. By logical progression, the hardest to
read of all are sixty-year-old politicians!
As an interesting aside, dedicated parents even claim to be able to sense when a baby is about to relieve
themselves and so avoid messy diapers. This technique is referred to as elimination communication. By
reading gestures such as frowning, squirming, fussing or tensing, mother’s (or fathers!) in combination
with baby’s particular rhythms, can detect when potty time is immanent. Once the baby’s cues have
been deciphered the mother can anticipate potty time by holding baby over the toilet and cuing with
“hiss-hiss” or “wiss-wiss” sounds. To associate the hissing sounds with urination, this process must be
repeated ten to twenty times each day!