By Steve Hodges, M.D. Little is more traumatizing for a kid than having poop accidents. My patients who struggle with bedwetting and pee...

By Steve Hodges, M.D. This week I saw a 7-year-old patient who’s had four urinary tract infections in the last six months and was...

By Steve Hodges, M.D. I met with a patient this week — an 8-year-old boy with both daytime and nighttime wetting — who had been advised...

By Steve Hodges, M.D. Recently on Quora, a mom posted this question: My daughter's 1st-grade teacher refused to let her use the restroom....

By Steve Hodges, M.D. If you’re a preschool teacher with a room full of potty-trained 3- or 4-year-olds, you might think: Fantastic—...

By Steve Hodges, M.D. If you know your child is constipated, you’re ahead of the game! As I often note, the signs of a clogged rectum are...

By Steve Hodges, M.D. If your child was chronically constipated, would you know it? You might think, “Of course!” Yet chronic and severe...

As a dad, I totally appreciate the Instagram photos of 4-month-old Ace Wells Tucker sitting on the potty. The little dude — son of Todd...

By Steve Hodges, M.D. Let’s say your child is learning to read. You expect she’ll be able to decode “cat” before she can read “flower”...

By Steve Hodges, M.D. I’ve known for years that enemas resolve pee accidents far better than any other treatment, whether it’s Miralax,...