Given how stressful potty training can be for parents and kids, the last thing either needs is to contend with discrimination from a daycare or preschool that refuses to accept a child who isn't yet ...

Potty training is an amazing process. In order for a human being to effectively use a toilet, she needs to develop a marvelous array of skills: an internal awareness of pressure on her bladder, a ...

The words “spring training” often evoke images of athletes prepping for the new season of baseball. However, for some parents the phrase has a different, more stressful meaning – prepping their ...

BALTIMORE - Being fully potty-trained is a major milestone for children and parents. However, school staff are seeing more and more toddlers entering the new school year not quite ready. "We're ...

Recently, my mother came to visit. Throughout her stay, she frequently and negatively criticized me because my 2-year-old daughter “still” wears diapers. My mother offered up a great deal of ...

Potty training can stir up big emotions in both parents and kids. There’s the excitement of ditching diapers for big-kid underwear and the sense of accomplishment in achieving a big milestone. But a ...

On my son’s third birthday, after tearing open the wrapping paper, he rode his new balance bike around our living room - in his diaper. I wondered when we would ever ditch the diapers and complete the ...

We talked to two veteran “quick-train” moms—Amanda Glasgow of Ft. Mitchell and Heidi Osterhage of Erlanger—to learn their tips and tricks for success with potty training. Ready: Osterhage’s son didn’t ...

It takes some children weeks but others months to learn to use a potty A BIG milestone for children growing up is learning to use a potty and eventually a toilet. Parents will either remember or ...