Parents' changing mindsetHere - braving the usual hecklers in order to isolate something that's usually in the footnotes. This is also thematically a follow-up to the earliest Questions For Parents in this particular forum's history Parents, grandparents, carers,... See More »
Withholding advice (again)I'm always getting banned/censored for telling inconvenient truths - and here's a sequel to an earlier post. On probably-the-same-website, a parent vents frustration at their now four-year-old (!) kid's rejection of potty training and persistent... See More »
Question for parents #6 - usual time of day for Poll (8) See Poll Optionsadministering the enema or suppository or MRS - whether or not it corresponds to when the kids would usually do their dooeys (or struggle and fail to... See More »
(TW) Question for parents #3a - the audienceFootnote to question 3 - have any parents ever weaponised the embarrassment/humiliation factor for the kids, the fact they're being Done within earshot of, or even in full view of, someone outside the family unit? I had a correspondent once whose... See More »
Which would you give your obstipating kids as a regular scheduled purge (if you thought that was a good idea) ? Poll (7) See Poll Options
The parental punishment-and-purge procedureJust because you're not lecturing your kids about how colorectal autointoxication affects behaviour, doesn't necessarily mean you're not force-opening, and emptying, their just-spanked bottoms (something my own parents seldom missed an "opportunity"... See More »
Re-educating parents (part one hundred and one)The mother's briefing: Her daughter, age 2, did some hard, painful dooeys while constipated, and though around the same time she did a dooey on the potty for the first time, she then regressed to the diaper/nappy, and has developed a strong fear of... See More »
Checking enema effectivenessAfter administration an enema did you listen the expulsion and check the results? Did you ever had to repeat the enema?