When To Use Pull Ups For Potty Training

Do you actually think using Pull-Ups would help you along this potty training journey? There’s actually just one scenario in which Pull-Ups for Potty Trainingare ok and that is when there’s a chance that your newly toilet trained toddler might fall asleep.

​ If you are going on a trip, or maybe out for the day, and your youngster might go to sleep in the automobile, then putting a Pull-Up on him is ok. Or, for a nap and at night, when you are not yet confident that he will make it through sleep without an accident, then a Pull-Up is ok. Otherwise, leave the Pull-Ups off.

And, when you do have your child in a Pull-Up, it's not ok to point out to him, “Well, since you've got your Pull- Up on, you can just potty in your pants.” No! No! No!

You need to treat a Pull-Up JUST LIKE regular underwear, taking your kid to the bathroom often, and never say it’s ok for him to just go potty in his Pull-Up. He is in the middle of learning NOT to potty in his pants, ever. He will not understand if you are saying it’s ok since he’s got a Pull-Up on. Got it? !

Now, if he’s got an accident in his Pull-Up, just treat it very matter-of-factly and take care of it. No punishment, no anger. There cannot ever be any negativeness around potty trainingno matter how irritated you might be! Count to 10. Big breath.

Don't make a big thing out of an accident. This will put negative energy related to experience and make it into a maddening ordeal. This is precisely what you want to avoid.

Your youngster will be potty trained before you know it. You may look back and laugh at these moments, guaranteed!

“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.”

- Josh Billings.

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