Dear Mama Drama:
My two year old is potty training and has moved into wearing “big girl panties.” I am freaked out about taking her out of the house because I’m afraid she’ll have an accident and will become too discouraged. How can I take her out and help her to be successful?
~ Stuck in the [...]

Parents have very strong opinions about what they refer to as bribing their children.
I prefer to look at it as an early lesson in action and consequence. If you do something, there will either be a reward or a punishment.
If that is bribery, sign me up.
Potty training my daughter was a nightmare because there was [...]

My three year old was doing great with potty training until we visited the museum and an automatic toilet flushed unexpectedly. He now screams and cries when we take him into any public bathroom. How can we help him get over his fear and handle these flushing monsters?
~Flushed away
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Dear Flushed Away:
Automatic toilets can be [...]

Dear Mama Drama:
My question is about potty-training. We would like to start our daughter, who will be 3 next month, in a 3-yr-old preschool program that requires she be potty-trained. She was doing really well, then regressed to going in her diaper when the newness of the potty wore off. So, we’ve started only letting [...]

Two years ago, my husband and I were in the throes woes of potty training our potty-training-challenged daughter.
We had tried everything and were at the end of our ropes. That is when we heard about the Children’s Hospital’s free parenting seminars that include everything from toddler to the teen-age years.
Please note the 2009 schedule below.
SEMINAR: [...]

Guest blogger Hilary is a Stapleton mom who chronicles her daily happenings through her blog at Mommy ‘N Martini…Mommy ‘N Milk. Her goal is to bring a little bit of humor and mischief into otherwise mundane (or not) occurrences. When she is not writing and occasionally consulting, she plays Mommy to a beautiful [...]

Growing up, we always had pets. There was Peppery the Tomcat who enjoyed knocking up the neighborhood felines and who, despite his amorous inclinations, was a fighter not a lover (I had the battle wounds to prove it). Then there was my beloved Lacey who I trained for the Bichon Frise Summer Olympics against her [...]