Normally I wouldn’t blog about the same topic three times, but the Kristen Bell “potty training” saga is such a factual disaster, such a destructive tornado of misinformation, that I feel compelled to keep explaining the medical realit...
Usually I ignore potty-training articles I disagree with, but sometimes an “expert” promotes ideas so outrageous — so harmful to children and parents — that I feel compelled to respond.
A pandemic is an awesome time to clean out your garage (I did that!) or learn 59 ways to cook an egg (I'm too lazy). But the fact that you’re stuck at home doesn’t make it a good time to toilet train your toddler.
As a dad, I’m dismayed by all the learning and dance practices and socializing my girls are missing out on these days, not to mention the insane amount of screen time happening at my house. My youngest watched all nine Star Wars movies...
Our Covid-19 lockdown doesn’t have many upsides, but one of them is that I now have time for weekly Facebook Live sessions with members of our three private support groups.
Parents have asked some excellent questions during these session...
Based on feedback from parents, we’ve recently added two age-based private support groups for parents of kids dealing with chronic constipation, bedwetting, and/or accidents: a Tween/Teen group (for parents of kids ages 10+) and a Pre-M...
When parents discover the Modified O’Regan Protocol (M.O.P), it’s usually after they’ve “tried everything” to fix their child’s bedwetting and/or daytime accidents — laxatives, probiotics, medication, alarms, nighttime fluid restriction...
The medical community’s boilerplate answer — around age 7 — is profoundly misguided, unsupported by science, and makes life crummy for countless children.
