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I may not have a sleep trained baby, but I think my little man is almost potty trained.
Toileting troubles may not be topic number one at your annual block party, but trust me: Probably one-third of the potty-trained kids on your street are constipated, and a huge number of them are having accidents and bedwetting episodes because of it.
So, she sat, she went and she conquered. But thanks to an iPhone app? I started researching, and discovered people weren't just using gadgets as distractions in the bathroom. After a few quick searches, I found apps to help toddlers build on bathroom successes.
I swore I'd never write about potty training, worried that somehow voicing my anxieties aloud to a captive audience meant selling out my daughter. But it's time I talked.
Whoever said you can't go home again should have added that you also can't go back to a same beloved getaway spot with a toddler and enjoy it nearly as much as when you used to go before she was born.
I'm giving serious consideration to boycotting potty training entirely. What's the worst that'll happen if I just stop trying to teach her? Even neglected kids eventually wear underwear without incident, right?
My 15-month-old asked to go poop last week. It sounds strange because I wasn't really trying to train her yet. Though I suppose in some ways I've been training her since day one.
Twenty months after my son Krishu was born, my wife Candice granted me a ten-day furlough to travel to Italy to embark on an arduous bike trip through the Dolomite Mountains.
We know her as Blossom, that spunky adolescent on that eponymous sitcom. But since the series ended in 1995, Mayim Bialik, now 33, has truly blossomed.
How did we, in just one generation, go from believing that an 18-monther was ready for the potty to feeling like we needed to let them discover their own way for an additional year and a half?
If you'd asked me a year ago what I'd be doing this summer, I guarantee I would not have guessed I'd be training a pup for my dad.
I think Mayor Michael Bloomberg is right. At least in spirit....
