Mom and author Tedi McVea — who used to live in Humboldt County — has written a new children’s book dealing with a major toddler milestone. “The Poop Farm: A Silly Way to Send Off Your First Potty ...

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.

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 ...

Let me lay all my cards on the table. As a parent of a 3-year-old boy who has just started potty training on the late side — yes, I’m defensive. It doesn’t ease my nonstop mom guilt to hear about a ...