Pull-up Huggies

2yrs. old is a little youg for training. Is your toddler able to peddle a tricycle? This ability could be an indication that your child has the muscular control necessary.

Let your child train themselves. Believe me, they want to do just what you do. Take them to the bathroom with you when you go. No instruction is necessary. They watch your every move. I read somewhere that 50% of kids are trained by age 4.

Relax. Diapers are easier to deal with than the subsequent anxiety of having to get to a potty.

Good Luck.

I am a cloth diaper user so I don't know much about disposable pull ups. But I have a 23 month old son who has been day potty trained since 15- 17 months. One of the things that seems to work well is ditching the diaper completely when we are home. I bought Gerber training underwear at Target/Kmart. If he has an accident, the cotton crotch is a bit thicker so it doesn't go everywhere. He is still in underwear so he will know if he wets. I found a potty reward chart on childavenue.com and give him a sticker every time he goes or tries to go on his own. It seems to be working well. Every morning and after nap he is still wet so I know that he isn't fully ready to abandon the diaper. I am ecstatic that we are having such success early. Good luck with your baby!

Hello C.,
Well I am a mother of 3 ages 6,2 1/2,14mos. My 6 yo and 2 1/2yo were both potty trained by 24mos. I tried the pull ups with my oldest which I do believe confused him he would just go in the pull ups cause it was just like diapers! so with my daughter I didn't even bother. The best thing that worked for me was just underwear and be ready for a mess! but it works, be persistent and put him on the potty often even if he doesn't ask just so he gets the idea. Make a big deal when he does go. I know he'll be potty trained in no time don't be discouraged. Good luck!
M.

I think pull-ups are fine, especially in the beginning. It didn't seem to be confusing to our daughter. She was a bit stubborn and a little challenging to train, but with perseverance she was completely trained at about 26 months. A few things we tried was putting her on the potty as soon as she woke up and then about every hour or so after that; in addition, we continually asked her if she had to go to the potty. She wore training pants as well as the pull-ups that change temp when wet. We also let her run around in her birthday suit at times and found that she had less accidents and ran to the potty on her own. It sounds a little strange, but an adviser who conducts potty-training seminars at our local Babies R US gave us this tip and it did seem to work well for us. Lots of praise and encouragement and no pressure or guilt goes a long way. Also, with boys, you can throw Cheerios or some other O-shaped cereal in the toilet and let them play target practice. Little boys usually enjoy this and may even ask to use the potty because there's something fun and entertaining in it for them.

Hope this helps and good luck with the training.

A.
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I am having the same problem with my little guy-he's 2 and will be 3 soon. Have you tried the Feel and Learn Huggies? They work ok for my little guy sometimes, but we may try cloth training pants for daytime, then go to pull-ups at night. The thing that seems to work best so far is to encourage him to go right away when he wakes up, even if we have to stay in the bathroom for a while. Then I encourage him to go through the day.

I tried potty training my son at two as well, it didn't happen until he was 3 1/2. The Dr. warned me that I could start at two if I wanted, but that he would train when he was ready... so she was right and it was quite frustrating, but he just wasn't ready yet. He didn't stop bed wetting until right before kindergarten! I will say that one thing that helped him try was when a favorite toy would show him how it worked and then would ask him to try (put on your best Elmo voice mom!) Good luck!

C., I used pull-ups for my daughter because they seemed to work better than diapers on her. I didn't use them to start the potty training. She has potty-trained at 2 1/2 and we used a 2-Day Potty Training that is online. You no longer use diapers, not even at night. This worked fantastic for us. NO MORE DIAPERS of any kind once you start the process. Good Luck!

Hi C.,

Let me know what you find out. My son will be 2 sept. 23rd I have been getting him used to the the potty for a while now, he likes sitting on there and he will go to it but has yet to go to the bathroom. www.DiscoveryToysLink.com/LisaRyan LisaM

I was 38 when I had my child and was given the advice to use real underwear...not the thick training ones. I think it works because they can't stand the wettness or mess in thin underwear. Of course it is difficult on you for a while...just make sure you have a lot of underwear, because you'll be washing a lot to start! Good luck!

Hi C.,
Get the book, "Toilet Training in Less than a Day," by Azrin and Foxx. The title is a slight misnomer, because you will endure 3 days of He**. However, it is so worth it. Get the Gerber training pants at Babies R Us.
My son was trained at 25 months and my daughter before 21 months. It works and anyone who tries this method raves (at the results).
Hey, I should be getting a kickback from the publisher!!
Good luck and let me know how it goes,
S.
www.createwealth.myarbonne.com

PS: you sound like a great person- positive and planet loving!

Hi C.,
I have two year old-twin girls. I can only say that in my experience, the huggies have confused my daughters. I started off with the training cloth underwear (we have tile floor so clean ups weren't bad). Everytime they would go, they would feel uncomfortable about being wet. We practiced pulling our pants down and pulling them back up. I kept the bathroom door open & they already knew how to turn on & off the light so that helped. Well...they did great for 3-4 weeks until hubby brought home pull-ups. The girls at first continued to go to the bathroom to sit on the potty, but then they started going in the pull-ups in order to continue playing or to watch the movie. We noticed that the pull-ups were wet every single time.

I have taken away the pull-ups and have started the cloth underwear training all over again. Pull-ups are great to have when you go out shopping or out for dinner. You can still encourage your child to use the facilities but if they have an accident, they don't wet their clothes. I advise you to change them out quickly as soon as they get back home.

Oh-My brother & SIL have a little 3 year old boy and they just got him potty-trained. I believe little boys take a bit longer, but they get their eventually.

Rewards help too!!! Stickers & charts. X amount of stickers might equal a special treat.
We did the one jelly bean in you tinkle. Three pieced of M&M's if you poopy in the potty chair. So far it's worked.

Good Luck.

Hi C.,

I used pull ups for a long time and I think they worked fine. With my son, we did the birthday suit method for about 2 weeks and it worked great, but I know others have had accidents. My son didn't want to pee on himself so this method worked great for us. I also put a waterproof cover on my couch for about a month just in case. Anyway, you just let them run around naked and when they have to go, take them to the potty. I tried underwear also in the beginning, but he would just go in them. Pooping on the potty was another story. Boys seem to have a problem with this. My son is 3 1/2 and has been pooping on the potty for about a month. All I can tell you, is to be patient and make a huge deal when it happens! He wanted his diaper to go poopy so we finally told him to go a little on the potty and then he could have a diaper. This finally worked, plus we give him stickers whenever he goes and he gets other treats like going to Chuck E. Cheese (his favorite).

Hi C., I've been a Montessori teacher for 14 years. I have never recommended that parents use pull-ups when potty training. They are much too absorbent and act "like a diaper". The child often gets a mixed message that he or she does not have to gain self-control since there is no urgent reason to make the effort to use a toilet/potty chair. Pull ups do not give the child a sense of being uncomfortable so I usually recommend to go straight into 5-ply underwear. You can get them at Target or WalMart. Your son will take great delight in picking out "big-boy" underwear.

The most important thing is to be consistent. Once you start, follow through and stay on top of a routine if possible. Never ask, "Do you have to go to the bathroom?" Rather, say "It's time to try and use the toilet". It helps to make a schedule (first thing in the morning, about 15 mintues after he eats, before nap, after nap, etc.) There is no turning back to diapers once you start the process. GOOD LUCK!
A. -Boynton Beach.

It is my opinion that pull ups are just confusing. When they have something that thick between their legs, it is like permission to go in their pants. My secret was to choose a week when I was sure the child was ready and commit to staying home all week and letting the child be naked. They do not have "accidents" when they have nothing on. If they don't make it to the potty when naked they are either being difficult on purpose or much too distracted or having a urinary health issue. But usually, a week of that freedom to be home and pantsless does the trick. Then you start with thin clothing and short outings and asking frequently if they need to go. Also, boys potty train much faster if dad leaves the door open and lets them watch when he goes. I realize that all this nudity and openness is too much for some to handle, but the truth is, this is how modeling works in the entire animal kingdom and most indigenous cultures!
All the best!
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Hi C., I have potty trained three stubborn boys (I think they all are)and each was different. I have found that if they are ready, the cold turkey method works best. You may have to clean up for a couple of days, but then miraculously they get it. Mine would all use a pull-up if they had one on. I still but them in night time pull-ups (different set of readiness skills) until they were night dry. If they aren't ready (let him be your guide), no amount of work will make them ready. Good luck and a solution of Oxi-Clean and water gets almost anything out!

Boys are tough! I think pull-up huggies are a good idea because they are not as drastic a change as big-boy pants. Here are sme techniques that we tried when my oldest was two: we bought a training potty that had a special membrane (like a balloon) that set off a music box whenever liquid filled it. We also bought a little boy doll with a water bottle and had our son "train" his boy to go on the potty. He was excited and named his boy "Bo." We also showed him big boy super hero pants that he would get to wear one day. It took awhile, but when he went to day care and saw all his friends using the bathroom, he wanted to be like the. His little brother was 14 months younger, and we included him in on the training sessions. He really wanted the big boy pants. After awhile the two would hold contests to see who could go the longest.

Peer pressure helps! If he has any playmates his age, maybe you and the other boy's mom could work on them together.

Hey C.,

When I took my son to preschool, the one thing they suggested was to get him out those pullups and put him in briefs (panties in ur case), and time him for his bathroom breaks. But I must say get ready to wipe the pee off ur floor.