[blparent] potty training
Pipi
blahblahblah0822 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 29 14:47:45 UTC 2010
here's a link to training pants like what you are talking about.
http://www.babybestbuy.com/dappi-early-trainer-vinyl-training-384.html
pipi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joy Wolf" <joy at kevinlwolf.net>
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 10:16 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] potty training
> We used these wonderful one piece training pants. They're like the older
> style training pants in the sense that they're cloth on the inside and
> have
> a vinyl type cover, but they're all one piece. They were enough different
> from the pull-ups that my daughter noticed, and they would feel wet inside
> more than diapers or pull-ups, but they kept at least much of the mess
> inside. For my daughter, who took a bit longer to really get it, they
> were
> wonderful. I wasn't too worried about the carpet at home because it
> cleaned
> up fairly easily. However, in my opinion there is nothing worse than
> taking
> a little one out somewhere and having them end up completely soaked, and
> oh,
> by the way, that was the one and only time you forgot to pack enough extra
> clothes, lol. Can you tell I've experienced that one? Anyway, sadly I
> can't
> for the life of me remember what those training pants were called, but for
> us they were helpful. I've known parents who swear by pull-ups, and
> others
> who absolutely hate them. I refused to use them myself becase as you
> mentioned they just didn't seem much different than diapers, but I think
> this is an individual choice. Also, don't expect potty training to go the
> way you planned, no matter what your hopes are, lol. My daughter took
> many
> months to train. My son absolutely refused to sit on the potty, and would
> get upset if I tried to push the issue. I finally gave up and put him
> back
> in diapers. One day we were shopping and he insisted on a new potty seat,
> even though we had one for him at home. I grumbled about how if I was
> going
> to spend 20 dollars on this thing he'd better use it, lol, but I bought
> it.
> He was just 3 at that time. Well, we came home, he used it, and never
> went
> back. In fact, from that moment on he was both day and night trained and
> probably only had two or three accidents total. So, neither potty
> training
> experience went as I thought it would for us. I'll stop rambling now, but
> wish you the best of luck. Just try hard not to get frustrated, be
> consistent, and above all, pay attention to his signals. He will let you
> know when he's really ready to make it happen. Take care.
>
> Joy and family
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Shannan Zinck
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 9:12 PM
> To: blparent at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [blparent] potty training
>
> Starting the wonderful Potty training process. One of our biggest
> parenting
> fears. any tips? We can never tell when he has to go and using underwear
> just seems way too messy for us since we can hardly find out where he goes
> and our house has carpet in every room except the kitchen and the
> bathrooms
> I hate carpet. I heard that pull ups are not the best because it's too
> much
> like a diaper and I believe it since our son treats them as such. Some one
> suggested using underwear with a pull up over them. He is averaging peeing
> half in the toilet and half in his pants and hasn't tried to do # 2 in the
> toilet yet which I expected would be the case. I remember when we started
> the adoption process and this was in the top 5 list of parenting dreads.
> Myles has shown interest for a long time and right now we have a window of
> opportunity, It's summer, we have a decent time eriod of little upheaval
> and busyness, I know it's a good time to really go for it but, what do I
> do
> next that won't ruin my carpets and furniture. any ideas would be great.
>
> --
> Shannan Zinck
> Survival is letting GOD take over!!!
> _______________________________________________
> blparent mailing list
> blparent at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blparent_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
> blparent:
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blparent_nfbnet.org/joy%40kevinlwolf.n
> et
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> blparent mailing list
> blparent at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blparent_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
> blparent:
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blparent_nfbnet.org/blahblahblah0822%40gmail.com
More information about the BlParent
mailing list