3 things you’re doing to sabotage potty training
Nothing strikes terror in the heart of parents quite like these two words: potty training. Any sort of change is challenging and even downright scary for a toddler, but you add poop and pee into the...
View ArticleDon’t Let Your Kids Pee in Public Please
Last summer I took my girls to a new playground in another part of town where they splashed in a play “river.” Trying to keep cool, I sat on a bench in the shade next to a water fountain. Despite the...
View ArticleShould we let kids pee in public?
We’ve done our share of public peeing in this family. But I’ve always felt that when the bare bum is tiny and cute enough, it doesn’t really count as a major civic transgression. I mean I’ve never...
View Article10 Things to remember when Potty Training a Special-Needs Child
Potty training any child is a victory but potty training a child with special needs brings a whole other level of satisfaction and serenity. I should know; it took several years to toilet-train my...
View ArticleToilet Teaching Techniques: 5 Experts’ Methods
Signs of Readiness You’d think that toilet learning would be a simple step in childrearing; everyone finds success eventually (how many teenagers do you know still in diapers?). But for many parents,...
View Article5 Public Potty Pointers: How to help kids overcome public toilet phobias
“Go” Before You Go If you have a recently potty trained child, you can probably relate to the following scenario: You have your three-year-old use the potty twice before you leave the house. You get...
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