Namely, parents will say the child has learned how to pee on the potty, and has no wet accidents. "He will hold his poop until we put a diaper on him, then he goes," I'm often told. First things ...

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.

Some toddlers may also hold poop because they fear accidents and incorrect potty training. The typical signs of a toddler holding poop include appetite loss, gassiness, body stiffness, and discomfort.

I was recently commiserating with a girlfriend over the phone about the fact that my 3-year-old had been refusing to poop in a toilet. And by “refuse,” I mean that she’d dissociate ...

Encourage potty time when you know they’re likely to need to poop, which is often after meals, but don’t force it. Let them ...

Pooping while using the Toilestool felt like trying to poop on stilts—slippery, sliding, scary stilts. Wooden toilet stools The Squatty Potty Slim Teak , our previous top pick, is still a nice ...

They invented the Squatty Potty, a stool that raises your knees above your hips to put you into a squat-like position when you poop. Squatty Potty's inventors say squatting moves your colon into ...

A lot of parades for poop are being thrown in our house right now.” 5 Jesse Tyler Ferguson shared that he and his husband, Justin Mikita, are currently potty training their eldest.

Sometimes a good poop is hard to come by. Maybe you find yourself spending an inordinate amount of time languishing on the toilet, waiting for the deed to be done. Or maybe, during moments of ...

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.