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...Crimson parody is any indication,the 'Poon is moving to reclaim its supremacy inthe campus toilet-joke market...
...giving the child a sense of autonomy," says Brazelton, "we reduced the incidence of problems from the national average of 8% to about 1%." Brazelton's results, reported in the journal Pediatrics, transformed the way most parents do toilet training. Even the term was recast as the kinder, gentler "toilet teaching...
Brazelton agrees that the incidence of potty-related problems has been rising lately, but he ascribes it to a return to the old ways, not reliance on the new. "Working parents don't have a lot of time for a leisurely approach to toilet teaching," he says, and observes that many day-care centers insist that children be out of diapers by age three. Under this sort of pressure, he suspects, many are resorting to just the sort of rigid timetables Rosemond advocates. Like Brazelton, psychologist and child-care expert Penelope Leach dismisses the notion that laid-back parenting...
...creating "the perfectly safe home." It offers, for example, a venetian-blind-cord shortener (so your child won't inadvertently hang himself) and a plastic "safety film" to put over windows and glass doors ("For use during hurricanes too!"). The catalog also gives you the opportunity to "Lock out 'toilet tragedies' with...
...amazing how many things you don't realize you need until you get a catalog featuring them. My wife and I had never even discussed toilet tragedies, much less formulated a viable strategy for combatting them. And consider the Tub Rug, a temperature-sensitive bath mat on which the words TOO HOT! appear under appropriate circumstances. It is almost embarrassing to admit, but we had been using a system, devised during the 19th century, in which a parent feels the water and, if it's too hot, says...