I hear frequently from parents who are trying to toilet train that the child is having some success. Namely, parents will say the child has learned how to pee on the potty, and has no wet accidents.

Q: Potty training advice needed: Our son just turned 3. He's great with peeing, except he still wears diapers for sleeping. We are struggling with pooping. He knows he's supposed to go in the potty.

When you have a baby, you basically sign up for 3 to 4 years of being responsible for their poop. Newborn blowouts, diaper changes in public bathrooms, the infamous “poopsplosions” when you’re already ...

Your toddler has no problem peeing in the potty. But when it comes to number two, that’s a whole different story. Your child might just sit and sit with no result. Then, as soon as the Pull-Up or ...

Nothing is quite as motivating to potty-train your kid as having to clean up your first “grown-up poop.” Shortly after that messy and gag-reflex inducing debacle, we told ourselves that we would stop ...

A little boy learns to go potty. Accustom the child to the potty. There are few parental milestones that are as stress inducing as potty training. I thought I had made it through the wild after ...

Actually, I only have four entertaining running-related Porta-potty stories, but what better opportunity than Poop Week to tell them. In fact, this is probably the only appropriate time to share this ...

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Potty training a toddler is no joke. Between the accidents and the stubborn refusals to “try,” getting a toddler to do their business in an actual toilet tends to be a long, drawn-out process, no ...