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canadiancare 08:45 AM 03-06-2013
I would rather pull a diaper off a kid to toilet them than deal with a poopy pullup.
I also don't believe they help you train. I do underwear with a diaper or plastic pants over top.
Need to write a reminder to a mum who doesn't listen when I say I prefer diapers. She keeps sending daughter in pullups which she proceeds to use as she would a diaper.
I don't mind them for a kid who is trained when awake to transition through naps but I don't like them, otherwise.
/rant
I also don't believe they help you train. I do underwear with a diaper or plastic pants over top.
Need to write a reminder to a mum who doesn't listen when I say I prefer diapers. She keeps sending daughter in pullups which she proceeds to use as she would a diaper.
I don't mind them for a kid who is trained when awake to transition through naps but I don't like them, otherwise.
/rant
mrsp'slilpeeps 08:51 AM 03-06-2013
I dont mind them when they are used at night. My son uses them, cause he is a bed wetter.
As for Daycare, If they want to potty train their child, go ahead but its not happening in my house.
Its unsanitary and gross to have peed on carpets, especialy with crawling babies. I prefer them to underwear if they are still having accidents.
As for Daycare, If they want to potty train their child, go ahead but its not happening in my house.
Its unsanitary and gross to have peed on carpets, especialy with crawling babies. I prefer them to underwear if they are still having accidents.
countrymom 09:31 AM 03-06-2013
I hate them too, they don't hold anything and are hard to change and then put on a child that is not potty training. We used them at night when we were potty training but otherwise they are a waste. Also, I found that they were still like diapers and the kids would pee in them.
bunnyslippers 09:33 AM 03-06-2013
hate hate hate them!
ABCDEFG 09:46 AM 03-06-2013
I agree. I think they are gross!
EntropyControlSpecialist 09:48 AM 03-06-2013
I prefer them for children that have frequent accidents.
rmc20021 09:51 AM 03-06-2013
I hate them also. As far as I'm concerned, they are still going to feel like a diaper to a child, and if they're used to 'going' in their diaper (all their lives) putting a pull up on them will feel the same way and the child will think nothing of using them.
I love them for sleeping though to prevent wet beds. I had two foster boys who wet the bed and I would have been so lost without the pull ups. They never wet during the day though. Those boys were 4 and 6 yo.
I love them for sleeping though to prevent wet beds. I had two foster boys who wet the bed and I would have been so lost without the pull ups. They never wet during the day though. Those boys were 4 and 6 yo.
itlw8 09:51 AM 03-06-2013
They serve their purpose of teaching a child to pull them up and down. I think undies do the job faster though but I do not want the mess of early trainers in underware .I only allow pull ups that have the velcro sides. and some store brands even have them.
hope 09:54 AM 03-06-2013
I really dislike pullups. I have 2 year old twin DCGs that are sent in them every day. DCM only wants them in diapers at nap time. They arent potty training, DCM is sitting them on potty "to get used to it". So I think she prefers to pull the pullups off when doing so rather then diaper. But these girls really soak them n end up leaking if I don't change every hour.
jokalima 11:20 AM 03-06-2013
I just discovered I don't like them.... Been dealing w/them for years now and never seen a child train in a short time while using them. Recently I read something about using training pants instead of pull ups, If you want to keep floors clean it means a lot of work ( bathroom every 20 minutes first couple of days ) but it works, my experience has been that child trains in a shorter amount of time and skips the pull up stage. From now on I don't want them, think don't help the child at all, just a waist of time, money and a lot of work for us.
melilley 11:24 AM 03-06-2013
I only like the pull ups that velcro on the sides. It kind of defeats the purpose, but if parents insist on having them then they need to bring the velcro ones! If they can pull them up and down and are really trying to go potty then they are not so bad and it does keep messes off of my floor! 
Patches 11:37 AM 03-06-2013
HATE them!
LK5kids 11:58 AM 03-06-2013
Hate them here too!
Oneluckymom 12:25 PM 03-06-2013
I HATE them too! It is a lot of work to get them on and off.
mamac 12:35 PM 03-06-2013
I used them for my first ds. I liked them for the purpose of training him to pull down his "underwear". I never told him that the picture on the front would disappear because I think that would just encourage a child to pee in their pants. I used them for about a week but ended up switching to regular underwear so he could actually feel what it was like to be wet and to have a load in his pants. He was pee trained with the pull-ups but wanted to be a "closet-pooper" until he was put into underwear. I never had any problem changing the poopy pull-up because the have the tear-away sides so it's no different than a diaper. I figure you have to keep changing pull-ups the child is not yet ready to potty train so why not keep them in diapers?
TL;DR I like them for short-term teaching purposes but don't see the value in them for long-term use.
TL;DR I like them for short-term teaching purposes but don't see the value in them for long-term use.