I think I thought of the subject for this article about four months ago. Maybe more. And even while writing this right now (an hour away from being allowed to go home on a work day so slow that it’s hard to not nod off), I’m clicking through tabs instead of finishing the paragraph. I may have a problem. (more…)

This whole obsession with anatomy/bathroom words is developmentally normal. And parents and teacher response does matter. In doing some reading on the topic, responses by experts range from celebrating bathroom words with pianos and drums to enforcing the proper terms in the proper environment with negative consequences.  Somewhere in the middle, I think, is where I fall. I am not one to have a concert celebrating words, nor is it a big enough offense to land a three-year-old in time out.