Pull-Ups Big Kid Academy? Count Us In!

Potty training.

Ugh.

Potty training.

You see, in regards to potty-training, I adopt a very hands-off approach.  Otherwise known as Mommy-buries-her-head-in-the-sand-and-pretends-this-is-not-happening.  The problem is, I just don’t get it.

I don’t get why risking a poop-in-pants is better than suiting up with a Pull-Up.  Even when my daughter has humiliated me by pooping in said Pull-Up at preschool. With my favorite teacher, no less.  The shame.

Indeed, Pull-Ups are a crutch for me and my kids.  A safety net. And I love them.

While I’d love to have my 3 yr. old daughter solidly in pretty princess panties, we just aren’t there yet.  So in the meantime, embracing those adorable Doc McStuffins disposable underpants works just fine for us.

Truth be told, I’m just not ready to go whole-hog.  To chance the panties-mess and force my daughter’s carers to baby-wipe their way through the mess.  Being that she’s not fully potty-trained, we need those cutie Pull-Ups in all their Doc McStuffins sweetness.  While part of us would love to boot them, we need them.  So we delight in them, stock up on them, and stash them in Mommy’s purse as back-up.

Someday, I hope to get there.  I hope to be so cool as to eschew all disposable diapers and be all “My kid is potty-trained!”, but for now…

For now, I need the Pull-Ups Big Kid Academy and all it’s advisement.  I am a disaster left to my own devices.

I shoot for all the things I know I should do:

Remind my daughter every 30 min. to use the potty.

Praise her endlessly for successful waste passages.

Fully invest in cotton panty-usage and suck up the nasty results of accidents.

Letting her watch me and develop a natural interest in the world of potty-usage.

Having her familiarize herself with the potty and all its elements. Hand-washing fun, anyone?

I do all of these things.  I do them dedicatedly. We still need Pull-Ups. 

The Doc really knows her stuff!

Every kid is unique. That’s why when you enroll at the Big Kid Academy, you’ll get a personalized “My Pull-Ups®” page with potty training activities and advice customized to your point in the potty training journey.

The Big Kid Academy pulls from the knowledge of parenting experts, medical professionals and parents who have been there to offer you suggestions for:

• How to talk to day care providers about potty training
• Solutions for nighttime
• Potty training on the go
• The best clothing for potty training

So, go enroll. This potty-training thing is a beast, one that is not easily conquered.

We can do this fellow parents! In the meantime, I’ll be there with you–struggling through horridness of potty-training known only to moms on-the-scene.  Someday we will be on the flipside of this wetted-panty hell.  For now? Doc McStuffins on, loves.  We’ve got this.

Really…we’ve got this?

*****Thank you to Pull-Ups for sponsoring today’s post and helping me Potty Train with the Big Kid Academy.*****

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Meredith

Meredith blogs at The Mom of the Year, where she dedicatedly earns her title one epic parenting fail at a time, offering quick, relatable laughs for fellow parents and all their empathizers. She has been part of several best-selling anthologies, featured on prominent sites such as Huffington Post, In the Powder Room and BlogHer, and loves her role as the Executive VP/Operations Manager of The BlogU Conference. When she's not breaking up fights over Legos and juice boxes, she remains fully committed to sharing a less serious look at the world of parenting.

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