Whether your child picks it up quickly, or resists graduating from diapers, potty training is a stage of parenting that typically can’t be avoided—no matter how much we want to skip right over it.

"He's potty-trained, right?" As a mother of a nearly 3-year-old boy, I've been getting this question for well over a year. The answer, unfortunately, is still, "Not quite yet!" I had high hopes at his ...