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Do you take your young son to the ladies’ room when he has to tinkle? Does your husband take your young daughter to the men’s room when she has to go “NOW! Daddy!”

It’s a common problem among parents: knowing when a child is old enough to use gender-appropriate public restrooms.

The family bathroom, which offers extra unisexual space for parents and their children, is not found in every store and restaurant. Meaning, at some point, moms and dads have to decide if it is wiser to bring their son into the ladies’ room or their daughter into a men’s restroom, if they are solo with an opposite gender child.

Donovan O’Neil chose to do the latter, and it landed him in the headlines.

According to reports, the Maryland father claims a security guard accosted him after he took his 3-year-old and 1-year-old daughters to the men’s restroom at the Frederick County Department of Social Services.

“He banged on the (stall) door like he was a cop,” O’Neil told reporters. “He was just really inappropriate about it.”

What’s more, O’Neil says that when he and his daughters exited the bathroom stall the guard reprimanded him in front of a crowd.

As for the guard, he says he was just doing his job. The security worker maintains that he was responding to a complaint made by someone who had used the restroom while O’Neil was in the stall with his daughters.

Long story short, O’Neil wants an apology from the security guard, but the worker says he doesn’t plan to issue one.

Meanwhile, the father of two says his 3-year-old daughter has been so traumatized by the restroom incident that she now refuses to step foot in public bathrooms.

Frankly, I don’t see what all the fuss is about. After all, O’Neil had both children tucked away in a stall while his older daughter did her business. It isn’t as though he lined her up with the rest of the men at the urinals to pee. Furthermore, she THREE! As a mother of a daughter not much older than O’Neil’s I can safely say that the girl was probably more concerned about getting on a potty before she wet herself than she was in what other male patrons were doing in the restroom.

What do you make of the security guard’s reaction? What would you do if a child had to go to the bathroom, and the only one to take him/her was an opposite-gender parent?

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One of the reasons many parents say that they put their children into daycare or early preschool is so the kids will be exposed to more germs and therefore get their illnesses over with before they reach school age, when absence from school may have more of an impact.

I knew a mom once who firmly believed in the idea of exposing her kids early to illnesses. In fact, she ran a day care, and if a child came in sick, she would make sure that her children were playing with that child and sharing toys, in order to increase their exposure to germs early.

In the interest of disclosure, I am one of those moms that not only does not like daycare or preschool (tried them both, and they just didn’t work for my family) and who carries hand sanitizer everywhere I go with my kids.

Another theory goes that I may actually be harming my children by not exposing them early to as many germs as possible, setting them up for allergies and asthma later in life.

But a recent study that followed kids at age eight, found that kids who attended day care and early preschool were not more immune to allergies and asthma. The quote from an article on HealthDay about the study says:

“We found no evidence for any protection for asthma, allergy and airway hyper-responsiveness at 8 years,” said Dr. Johan C. de Jongste, professor of pediatric respiratory medicine at Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands, who led the study.

The study was published in the Sept. 15 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

So while there may be very good reasons for placing your child in daycare and early preschool, including enabling parents to work and promoting some social interaction, it can’t necessarily be used as a health strategy for your kids.

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Speech & Language: Birth to 3 months

Crying is your baby’s first and only way of communicating with you during the early weeks of life. She will cry to let you know she is hungry. She will cry to let you know her diaper is wet. She will cry to let you know she is unhappy. As she continues to develop, she will begin to coo and she may be able to make out vowel sounds such as “ah”, “eh” and “uh”.

Although your baby cannot talk or even really babble yet, her language skills are forming. She is listening and learning about her environment. She should startle if she hears a loud noise and turn her head towards her mother’s voice.

You can help promote her speech and language development by singing to her or reading to her. Talk to your baby often and expose her to a variety of sounds and music.
Speech & Language: 4 to 6 months

Between four and six months your child’s speech and language begin to blossom. What started out as simple cooing turns into full fledge babbling. She should be able to make single syllable consonants sounds including n, k, g, p, and b. The infamous ga-gas and goo-goos may be heard now. She will laugh and smile and of course still cry to communicate with you.

You can encourage her language by playing with her often. Use her name when you speak to her. Repeat sounds when she says them to you and encourage her to repeat them back. Baby rattles are appropriate toys at this age.

Speech & Language: 7 to 9 months

Your baby’s babbling will continue and progress to sound more like real talking. She will make two syllable sounds such as mama and dada. Although these sound a lot like words, she likely has not associated them yet with a person or thing. She will continue babbling, learning more and more new sounds during this period. She is beginning to understand more too. She can understand simple commands such as no-no. She likely has a collection of words she understands now.

You can encourage your child’s language development through play. Singing songs such as “Head and Shoulders, Knees, and Toes” or playing games like “Where’s your belly?”, “Where’s your nose?”, “Where’s your toes?” is a great way to expand your child’s language.

Speech & Language: 10-12 months

Between ten and twelve months you may hear your child’s first word. By a year most children can say 3-5 words. Besides beginning to talk, your child’s comprehension of the spoken language begins to flourish. She may shake her head no, wave bye-bye, and follow simple directions.

Activities you can do to encourage her to talk include continuing to read stories and nursery rhymes and playing games such as peek-a-boo. Learning animal sounds can encourage even the reluctant talker.

Not talking by a year is not usually an indicator of a problem unless there are other signs of delays. Consult your doctor if you are concerned about her language and speech development.

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