Our son is just over two. From about 18 months or so, he started to express an interest in the inner workings of the bathroom—we call him the “hygiene police” because he feels that it’s his “job” to make sure that anyone who has used the bathroom washes their hands before leaving. He also thinks [...]

After much frustration and reading just about anything I could get my hands on, my 3-year old son is – POTTY TRAINED. We pleaded, we bribed but all he wanted to do was number one. He was introduced to the toilet from early on; well before his first birthday he was seeing his parents use [...]

I got an unusual call yesterday: a call to mediate clashes in potty training ideology between my step brother and my step mother. Isn’t that interesting? I got called because, after having 5 kids, they liken me to something akin to a “expert” in the area of potty training. The object of the disagreement? A 3 year old child who staunchly refuses to use the potty. Of course, both sides have very different ideas on how to fix this whole “problem”. I myself have talked with pediatricians and even a…

I’m no potty training expert, but I’ve successfully potty trained one child and am readying myself to move on to the next one. One thing that I found helped tremendously when it came to potty training my daughter was to start early. I don’t mean that she was propped up on the toilet [...]

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