By Steve Hodges, M.D.
- Jan 18, 2016
- 6 min
To the "Scary Mommy" Worried Her Child Will Never Be Potty Trained
Carrie Tinsley is one brave mom. In her Scary Mommy blog post, “I’m The Mom Whose Kid May Never Be Potty Trained,” she admits that her almost-5-year-old son, Tate, has daily accidents. She lists the ill-fated strategies she has tried: bribes, charts, timers, waiting patiently. “I feel like such a failure,” she writes. Every day in my pediatric urology clinic I meet similarly dejected parents and their bummed-out kids, and I want Carrie to know what I tell my patients: Virtual
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By Steve Hodges, M.D.,
- Jan 5, 2016
- 5 min
6 Damaging Myths About Bedwetting and Accidents
In the last three days I’ve written letters to two elementary schools on behalf of students threatened with suspension for wetting their pants. Just yesterday I saw an 11-year-old patient who’s been having pee and poop accidents since age 3.5 — and yet was only now referred to me by his pediatrician. “Our doctor kept telling us he’d grow out of it,” the boy’s mom told me. And on a prominent parenting website’s Facebook page, I read several dozen misguided responses to a post
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