By Steve Hodges, M.D. Usually I ignore potty-training articles I disagree with, but sometimes an “expert” promotes ideas so outrageous —...

OK, here I go. I’m about to weigh in — as a dad and a pediatric urologist — on the Kristen Bell/diaper brouhaha. To recap: In her latest...

By Steve Hodges, M.D. A pandemic is an awesome time to clean out your garage (I did that!) or learn 59 ways to cook an egg (I'm too...

By Steve Hodges, M.D. As a dad, I’m dismayed by all the learning and dance practices and socializing my girls are missing out on these...

By Steve Hodges, M.D. Our Covid-19 lockdown doesn’t have many upsides, but one of them is that I now have time for weekly Facebook Live...

By Steve Hodges, M.D. Based on feedback from parents, we’ve recently added two age-based private support groups for parents of kids...

By Steve Hodges, M.D. Parents ask me all the time: How can I get my child on board with enemas? She’s terrified. Or, they’ll say: I get...

By Steve Hodges, M.D. When parents discover the Modified O’Regan Protocol (M.O.P), it’s usually after they’ve “tried everything” to fix...

By Steve Hodges, M.D. At what age should bedwetting be treated? The medical community’s boilerplate answer — around age 7 — is profoundly...

By Steve Hodges, M.D. On a forum for childhood constipation, a mom recently posted: My daughter has been struggling with constipation for...