Ready to take the plunge and potty train your little man? Congratulations! This is a big step for both of you, but you’re going to rock it. You may have heard from other parents that training boys is ...

It's a simple schoolyard insult. For eons, people — often men — hurled "mama's boy" at each other as an emasculating put-down. To be called the son of a mother suggested an essential unmanliness.