If at first you dont succeed try pants. (Toilet Training/Potties in General)

Member Name: Meaux

Product:	Toilet Training/Potties in General
Date:	03/02/01 (64 review reads)
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Advantages: Very absorbent

Disadvantages: Expensive hybrid of nappies and pants.

For over a year I have been trying patiently off and on to potty train my daughter. I’d tried every manual, book and video I could lay my hands on but all to no avail as we approached her third birthday I was starting to feel like a failure.

Friends and family assured me it would not take long, the health visitor was full of advice but despite all my gentle coaxing my daughter had different ideas. After making the switch to training pants still I could not persuade her to use either the toilet or the potty. When it comes to training pants I’ve tried them all, from the disposable to the washable.

Now I have to say of everything I tried Huggies were absolutely brilliant, very absorbable, comfortable and beautifully decorated with little stars that disappeared when they become wet. In fact they proved to be too good remaining both comfortable to wear and pretty after the inevitable accidents. Her third birthday came and went, and still there was no improvement.

Throwing every method I had come across to one side I formulated my own plan. No more coaxing her to sit on the toilet, no more potty stories and no more training pants or nappies. Instead it was down to the supermarket to buy a bumper box of cleaning fluids.

Preparing myself for the worse I told her there would be no more mickey mouse pants, instead she had to wear big girls pants all the time. This was not well received, as was now common from previous attempts. But this time I persevered. In the past I had relented after the first couple of accidents and accompanying tears. And here comes the crunch … it actually worked, and within a week she was fully toilet trained and proud of herself!

My basic advice here is don’t rely on having the prettiest toilet seat, the most comfortable training pants or ritually chasing your child around with the potty. Sure, help things along but remember that everything we are brainwashed into buying to hel
p this process along just might not be worth the money. To be honest I wish had bypassed the whole training pants process and saved my self the expense.

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