Potty training — possibly the most dreaded few months in any parent’s life, right? Maybe not. For Jessica Tomaz, 26, of Eastown, toilet training time was fun and exciting. As mom to 1-year-old Yasmin, ...

. To my surprise, Danica was very receptive to the concept and even preferred the toilet over a toddler potty seat. On several occasions, she also told me when she had to go so I thought we were well ...

In the day cares of the future — commingled with the sounds of laughter, sneezing and toys dropping — you may hear an intermittent beeping or musical chime coming from the pants of some of the ...

Two weeks ago, I addressed what has become the primary toilet-training problem in America: children who refuse to use the toilet for bowel movements. In almost every case, these kids’ parents missed ...

According to WebMD, the average potty training age in the 1940s was 18 months. Whether it is due to the effective marketing strategies of leak-proof, dry-feeling diapers, the convenience-based society ...

Basically, 3 day potty training means letting your child run around without diapers over a long weekend until they realize that sitting on the potty is much more pleasant than letting it go on the ...

Get a group of parents together and invariably you will hear “Does your 10-year-old scream in public?” Or, “OK my 3-year-old still refuses to use the potty, what am I doing wrong?” And “I’m so ...

As my regular readers already know, I am not a fan of rewardsgiven for behaving properly. First, any improvement in behaviorthat comes about as a result of reward is almost alwaysshort-lived. Second, ...

If you read those how-to books on potty training, most advise that you start the process in the spring/summer ... when you can let the bums be free of diapers and use the great outdoors to aid in the ...

Hey, Brooklyn, you’ll have to hold it a wee bit longer. The city’s plans to install a pay toilet in Grand Army Plaza have stalled after the Landmarks Preservation Commission put off a vote to place ...

Guest Dad Joe Burris writes today about how for a family guy, the toilet inevitably becomes “the potty”: A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I were visiting a department store when she decided to try ...

The Bay City Fireworks Festival starts tonight, which means it's potty time in Bay City. More than 150 portable toilets have been plopped in Bay City to provide relief for the more than 100,000 people ...