By Steve Hodges, M.D. Whether the issue is a child’s bedwetting, poop accidents, potty “refusal,” or another toileting difficulty, I...

By Steve Hodges, M.D. The other day I read an article in Yahoo!Sports headlined “Mom reveals how she potty-trained her baby at 3 months...

By Steve Hodges, M.D. How do you know if constipation is actually the cause of your child’s enuresis/encopresis or whether the accidents...

By Steve Hodges, M.D. The other day I read with interest a New York Times article titled “Sabrina’s Parents Love Her. But the Meltdowns...

By Steve Hodges, M.D. Among parents of children with enuresis or encopresis, a common fear is that their child will become “dependent” on...

By Steve Hodges, M.D. A 3-year-old who wets her underwear at preschool every day. A 4-year-old who pees constantly. A kindergartener with...

By Steve Hodges, M.D. Some years ago, I began recommending olive oil enemas as part of a treatment regimen for intractably constipated children — kids whose rectums harbored hard, dry masses of stool that just wouldn’t budge Though this remedy, referenced in old textbooks and first added to my bag of tricks by an Icelandic mom, had not been tested scientifically, I could see that oil enemas were safe and highly effective for impacted stool and made a ton of sense. That was g

By Steve Hodges, M.D. Back in 1985, when I was in middle school and Foreigner was huge, a team of Maryland physicians published a study...

"Bedwetting, daytime wetting, poop accidents, and delayed potty training are all written off as part of autism," Dr. Hodges tells Dr....

Once families understand what actually triggers toileting accidents, the whole picture changes. Treatment stops being about correcting behavior and starts being about restoring sensation and control. When you fix the physical problem, the “behavior” resolves on its own. Kids stop feeling blamed for something they can’t feel, and family tension melts away.