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Magic 04:15 PM 07-16-2014
I am asking for thoughts on pull ups. do you like them or not ....and any other diaper related comments 
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hope 04:19 PM 07-16-2014
I don't like them from the start of potty training. Both my own children were good with #1 for a long time before they would stop having b m's in their pants so I found pull ups good for that. I can just throw them away. I do not allow pull ups for daycare bc I require a child to be fully potty trained before getting out of diapers.
sharlan 04:30 PM 07-16-2014
IMHO, they're just expensive diapers. I don't use or allow them.
preschoolteacher 05:52 PM 07-16-2014
Oh man. I had a 3 year old DCB drop in this week, and DCM said: "he's wearing a pull-up, but I don't think he will go potty here. He only goes at home." I let it go... Decided to change him if he wouldn't go potty (he wouldn't). Figuring for the 1.5 hours he was over wouldn't matter.
Huge poopy pull-up. Barely contained it. Really difficult and gross to change because pull-ups don't wrap up, seal with tabs like a diaper. Such a mess.
Never, ever again. Diapers until they're potty trained.
Huge poopy pull-up. Barely contained it. Really difficult and gross to change because pull-ups don't wrap up, seal with tabs like a diaper. Such a mess.
Never, ever again. Diapers until they're potty trained.
sugar buzz 06:10 PM 07-16-2014
If you're going to allow them, my advice would be to have the parents supply ones with the re-attachable sides. It's a huge pain to have to completely undress the child from the waist down, especially in the winter. They also leak on those days when the child comes down with a stomach virus in the middle of the day, so always have a pile of emergency diapers on hand.
I've known a lot of parents who use them to give the illusion of potty-training and make themselves feel better, when in reality the child's skills are still at diaper level.
I've known a lot of parents who use them to give the illusion of potty-training and make themselves feel better, when in reality the child's skills are still at diaper level.
nothingwithoutjoy 08:26 PM 07-16-2014
I hate them. Parents act like it's this great big step, like the kid is in underwear. Might as well tell them "it's fine to pee in your underwear." It's like they think they've graduated to something, and then the kid thinks so, too. But it's just an annoying diaper. (I never call them pull-ups; I say diapers, and when a kid corrects me, I say "it's a pull-up diaper.") They're harder to put on and require lots more undressing than I typically do at a diaper change.
EntropyControlSpecialist 08:44 PM 07-16-2014
Originally Posted by sugar buzz:
If you're going to allow them, my advice would be to have the parents supply ones with the re-attachable sides. It's a huge pain to have to completely undress the child from the waist down, especially in the winter. They also leak on those days when the child comes down with a stomach virus in the middle of the day, so always have a pile of emergency diapers on hand.
I've known a lot of parents who use them to give the illusion of potty-training and make themselves feel better, when in reality the child's skills are still at diaper level.
How funny. I love pull-up type pants but HATE the pull-up brand because of the reattachable sides. They bust open when the kids are independently pulling them up and down over here. I like Pampers Easy-Ups becuse they stay together. If you're going to allow them, my advice would be to have the parents supply ones with the re-attachable sides. It's a huge pain to have to completely undress the child from the waist down, especially in the winter. They also leak on those days when the child comes down with a stomach virus in the middle of the day, so always have a pile of emergency diapers on hand.
I've known a lot of parents who use them to give the illusion of potty-training and make themselves feel better, when in reality the child's skills are still at diaper level.
If a child is NEVER using the restroom I don't allow them. It cannot hold that much urine. If a child is doing a combo approach then I love them because it is a diaper they can take off and put on themselves (if it is only urine).
AmyKidsCo 08:53 PM 07-16-2014
I like them for the first week or so when the child is getting the idea but can't always hold it long enough to get to the potty. Once they're able to hold it and keep the pull up dry it's time for cloth pants. I currently have a 2 yr old who's regressing because her parents use diapers and pull ups indiscriminately and now she's started peeing in both after being dry all day for weeks.
Unregistered 01:53 PM 07-18-2014
Originally Posted by nothingwithoutjoy:
I hate them. Parents act like it's this great big step, like the kid is in underwear. Might as well tell them "it's fine to pee in your underwear." It's like they think they've graduated to something, and then the kid thinks so, too. But it's just an annoying diaper. (I never call them pull-ups; I say diapers, and when a kid corrects me, I say "it's a pull-up diaper.") They're harder to put on and require lots more undressing than I typically do at a diaper change.
thanks ladies I hate them. Parents act like it's this great big step, like the kid is in underwear. Might as well tell them "it's fine to pee in your underwear." It's like they think they've graduated to something, and then the kid thinks so, too. But it's just an annoying diaper. (I never call them pull-ups; I say diapers, and when a kid corrects me, I say "it's a pull-up diaper.") They're harder to put on and require lots more undressing than I typically do at a diaper change.
I do not like them and agree with the pee in underwear thought
i am not sure how I can tell parents I do not like them ...in conversations with people and parents I do but with a all ready have them situation not sure
and sure enough today the little guy taht just started with pull ups had a killer poop which it leaked everywhere and massive clean up and change of cloths ...sigh ...
Cradle2crayons 05:42 PM 07-18-2014
Originally Posted by Unregistered:
thanks ladies
I do not like them and agree with the pee in underwear thought
i am not sure how I can tell parents I do not like them ...in conversations with people and parents I do but with a all ready have them situation not sure
and sure enough today the little guy taht just started with pull ups had a killer poop which it leaked everywhere and massive clean up and change of cloths ...sigh ...
I have a "no pull ups allowed at daycare" policy.thanks ladies
I do not like them and agree with the pee in underwear thought
i am not sure how I can tell parents I do not like them ...in conversations with people and parents I do but with a all ready have them situation not sure
and sure enough today the little guy taht just started with pull ups had a killer poop which it leaked everywhere and massive clean up and change of cloths ...sigh ...
If a child shows up in one, I immediately put a stop to it.
If you've been allowing them and don't want to anymore, then just tell the parents you've decided to stop allowing them and why.
Here, I have a specific potty training policy. They use a diaper until they have been accident free for two weeks. Then they can go into undies. But if they have an accident it's back to diapers until they are dry again for two weeks. And that dry for two weeks is HERE, at daycare (not reported from home).
Crazy8 07:40 AM 07-19-2014
I allow them in the beginning and then for nap time only - I have had many kids who were 100% potty trained while awake but would still wet at nap time.
My potty training policy is you start training at home, seriously or not at all. None of this put them in a pull up and dabble in potty training for 6 months. They come back with pull up or training pants over their underwear until I am confident they are trained. If they are not its back to diapers - no long term pull up wearing. I tell parents they need to consider the pull up underwear that they can't wet, not just a glorified diaper. I usually "scare" them into realizing that using pull ups as a diaper is not a habit they want to get into.
My potty training policy is you start training at home, seriously or not at all. None of this put them in a pull up and dabble in potty training for 6 months. They come back with pull up or training pants over their underwear until I am confident they are trained. If they are not its back to diapers - no long term pull up wearing. I tell parents they need to consider the pull up underwear that they can't wet, not just a glorified diaper. I usually "scare" them into realizing that using pull ups as a diaper is not a habit they want to get into.
bananas 09:22 AM 07-19-2014
I had a 2 year old girl in them only because she was so big she had outgrown size 7 diapers...she was in 4-5t pull-ups and even those were riding up her bottom! I hated cleaning them, especially when she pooped - it would leak everywhere!