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Potty training: How and when to try

Bill Bounds — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:39:33 +0000

While we wish there was an easy way to go about potty training our toddlers, there just isn't, and there isn't even an easy way to know when to go about trying.

It is commonly understood that the process will be much more difficult than necessary if we try to force training on children before they're ready or go about it in a way that puts too much pressure on them.

8 reasons for cloth diapering

Paul Banas — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:13:56 +0000

Usually, I don't like to copy/paste reasons for doing anything from a manufacturer. However, these reasons just seem so obvious that they merit posting. More and more parents are turning to cloth diapers for the benefits they provide to their baby and their baby’s environment. Full disclosure, we did NOT cloth-diaper our babies. We bought into the corporate side of the argument and the now-discredited study that showed no environmental difference between cloth diapering and disposable diapers. That might have been a "possible" argument before the advent of new systems that use very thin disposable liners to keep the poop off clothes and the reusable underpants. It's almost worth having another baby just so I could do it all over again the right way, rather than living with the guilt that keeps me up all night about all that landfill (kidding).

1. Better for the environment

Over 27 billion disposable diapers go to landfills every year in the United States. They take hundreds of years to decompose, releasing methane gases.

If you need this Flippee Toilet Shield, it’s likely a miracle product

Paul Banas — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:13:36 +0000

Without the aid of cheerios or other floating targets, he stays inside the lines, and rarely have I seen him paint the walls. ... I can only imagine how wide of the target they must have hit before she took pencil to paper and invented this gadget, the Flippee. At $24.95, and available from Potty Training Concepts and Flippee.com , you might be surprised at how simple it is.