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Potty Training Before Preschool: How to Beat the Fall Deadline (Without the Panic)

The summer before my older son started preschool, I had a date circled on the calendar and a kid who still asked for a diaper the second he felt a poop coming. The brochure said, politely but unmistakably, that children needed to be “independently toilet trained.” I spent about a week quietly panicking before I

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A mother holds her baby in a sunlit living room with packed travel baby gear, ready for visiting grandparents

Visiting Grandparents With a Baby: What to Pack for Sleep, Meals, and a House That Isn’t Babyproofed

The first time we drove up to my parents’ place with a baby in the back seat, I packed like we were emigrating. Two giant duffels, a trunk that wouldn’t close, and a mental list I’d rewritten four times. And somehow I still forgot the one thing that actually mattered that weekend: a way to

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