Pampers is offering a free potty training kit that includes tips, stickers and coloring pages, a trophy, a potty training chart, a sample of Easy-Ups disposable training pants and coupons. If for nothing else, get the kit if you're thinking about using disposable training pants so you can give them a try or if you're already using them, save a few bucks with the coupons.
Disposable training pants are not for everyone, though. Some kids just cannot seem to feel the difference between these and a diaper. It can really mean the difference between a child who "gets it" right away and a child who doesn't. If you're already using cloth diapers most of the time, training pants probably aren't for you, either. Not all toddlers need that uncomfortable / wet feeling to potty train succesfully, however.
I think that the best use of disposable training pants is surface protection during naps and sleep. It's totally normal for children to wet the bed well past the toddler years and you just never know when you're going to be stuck in the car during naptime. I know many of you have that child who stays accident-free all day long but can't make it through naps without wetting. You might find that the cost of using one or two disposable training pants per day offsets against the time, effort, sleep interruption and money it takes to clean up those unpreventable accidents that happen during sleep.
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I have a 3yr old girl, who is potty trained. I started potty training her at 18months, during this time I used plain underwere, I didn’t really bother with training pants, she mastered the potty by 1month, I believe it is just consistence that helped her catch on fast, at night I had her used the bathroom before she went to sleep, I also would get her up in the middle of the night and take her to the bathroom, she would go right back to sleep. So, I didn’t have to worry about accidents.
Having twins, I found that disposable diapers and training pants were too expensive. I agree that they are good surface protection for naps, until the child is fully trained but there is nothing that sends a message home to the child more quickly than feeling the wet run down his/her legs. The important thing to do is make sure that the child is ready both mentally and physically and not to push potty training to the point that the child feels like a failure. http://buildsitepro.com/home.asp
Having twins, I found that disposable diapers and training pants were too expensive. I agree that they are good surface protection for naps, until the child is fully trained but there is nothing that sends a message home to the child more quickly than feeling the wet run down his/her legs. The important thing to do is make sure that the child is ready both mentally and physically and not to push potty training to the point that the child feels like a failure.