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I have really exciting news to share with all of you! Last month, I announced I was a Pull-Ups® First Flush Ambassador. I knew this came at the perfect time because I was determined for the third time to get Zane trained. With the baby coming in early July and with pool season coming up (he needs to be potty trained to go in the pool), I knew I needed to set my mind to it, and finally get Zane potty trained. Thankfully, with the help of being a Pull-Ups® First Flush Ambassador, I am very happy to announce that Zane is almost 80 percent trained. Sure we still have accidents, but for the most part, I can say he is truly this time on his way to being potty trained and it could not make me happier!
When I was training Hayley, I was pushing it on her and ultimately it backfired when she decided that she never wanted to poop on the potty. Since enemias were needed, I decided to forgo potty training and let her determine when she was ready, which happened when she was around 38 months old. With Zane though, he was ready to get out of diapers, but not quite ready to go to his big boy underwear. So what I decided to try was to let him go with his fun Cars designed Pull-Ups® and wear them 24/7 around the house.
Pull-Ups® are made with fun learning designs and have leakage protection, as well as an underwear-like feel. When Zane has his Pull-Ups® on, he likes to yell out, “Look mommy…What a big boy I am!” It is truly so cute! At first, he was using the Pull-Ups® similar to a diaper, but once he realized he can be the one to actually pull down his Pull-Ups® and go potty, he started doing it all by himself. It was simply amazing! We did the sticker chart to motivate him but after a week, I was beginning to hear the potty flush, and his Pull-Ups® were beginning to stay dry!
In our first week of wearing the Pull-Ups®, he was still wetting himself but what we both came to realize quickly is the design fades when it is wet. It was a very motivating factor to him to not get himself wet, as he hated seeing his cute Cars design going away. This feature will help your child learn by actually seeing, which is a brilliant concept. Pull-Ups® also has a cool alert when it begins to feel cool when wet. Again, Zane hated the feeling of being wet, which was motivating enough to have him go potty. While he is still wearing them at night and it not at all potty trained through the night, I like the fact that both of these features, along with the extra absorbency, will help him soon learn not to wet himself at night.
Pull-Ups® training pants are designed to look and fit more like underwear and work with your child’s potty training learning style. Since Zane felt like he was wearing big boy pants, he was super motivated to finally use the potty. By the end of week one, we were down to about two accidents a day and by the end of week two, only one accident a day. Huge progress was made with the Pull-Ups® training pants and he felt total independence wearing them!
During this whole process, I have been using the Big Kids Academy on the Pull-Ups® website to help overcome any challenges I faced during potty training. It is a great resource for those going through potty training currently or thinking about it in the near future. Some of the tools available include a quiz to tell you if your child is ready to potty train (which told me with 100 percent certainty that Zane was) and a great Micky/Minnie Sticker Chart, which helps parents track their kids progress. 
We also did the potty dance which was recommended on their site. Zane loves the song “Let It Go” from Frozen so every time he went potty, we both cranked up the music and danced to his favorite songs.
Definitely check out the Big Kids Academy on the Pull-Ups® website, because it gives parents a wealth of information dealing with potty training such as advice from others going through it, best potty seats, potty training for working parents, and more! To learn more, check out the Big Kid Academy on the Pull-Ups website and follow them Twitter and Facebook.
There is also a great Big Kids App which you can download on Apple and Android smart phones, to help you out through the potty training process. The app offer videos and songs and a Big Kid checklist to help your little one, in his or her nighttime routine. What I love about this app is it will reward and track your child’s potty training successes by using a star system. By getting stars, you child can play fun Disney games such as the one below. You can also choose a special Disney character, along with a time and date, and they will deliver a a message (through the phone number you provided) for your child at potty time. What an amazing feature to have a Disney character call your child! This app is all inclusive and will most certainly help during potty training.
So tell me, any additional tips for potty training?
We used Pull-Ups when we were potty training both of our boys and it helped us tremendously. It allowed them to make the transitions from wearing diapers to going to the bathroom on their own.
God, I am so glad I am past the potty training phase with my kids LOL. I always used Pull Ups with them when they were training.
I used pull-ups mostly when they were sleeping. Deep sleepers can have a hard time maneuvering everything in the middle of the night!
I have been trying to get my 6 year old to stay dry at night, I have tried it all. I have decided to cave in and buy pullups and that’s what we use every single night my pocket book shows it I should be a share holder for the company with how much I’ve invested in goodnights for the past three years of trying to get her dry at night. she is amazing and completed the day time potty it’s the night time stuff. I am thankful she only pees at night now it’s trying to get her up at the right hour and trying to have her feel when she has to go before she wakes up wet. She can’t seem to make the connection and wakes up upset because her goodnights are wet. We get the princess and she hates peeing her the princess lol I enjoy getting coupons and I have never thought check the site out for anything other then coupons. I will have to give the Disney character call a try.
haha. I have no idea – I am no parent yet and I can’t remember my potty training days lol – though I do remember we had one when I was younger, lol.
Like you, I just let my youngest let me know when he was ready instead of pushing it on him. He was slower than the other three by FAR, but despite all of the (unwanted 😉 ) advice people kept giving me when they found out, I knew that was just the right thing to do with him.
We used Pull Ups too, and loved them. Never one leak, ever!
I Loved pull ups when my son was little helped a lot when he had accidents.
I am so glad potty training is over, I think it was the worst time of my life. haha. Luckily my son caught on quickly I am definitely glad for pull ups though they certainly helped a lot.
My daughter is seventeen months, so it may be time to start potty training her. I am going to get her some pull ups and perhaps a potty doll, so she can sit while dolly sits too!
These are great tools to help you potty train your little one. Those along with the pull ups certainly must make the task a little easier. At the end of the day though, the child needs to be ready to be successful.
What a great post! We love pull-ups! they definitely got us through potty training my son–and I’m certain they will get us through potty training my daughter when she is ready. We just gave our last pack to the NC diaper bank.
First off, those pullups are adorable! I love the designs. I am about to potty train my daughter so I am sure that I will be using A LOT of pull ups!
When I was potty training my girls I simply stopped diapers in the day time. Believe it or not they were trained in less than a week’s time. The only time I used pull-ups were at night and when we went out.