Potty Training Tips for Reluctant Kids: Celebrate Every Flush With Pull-Ups

Potty training with both of my kids was a tough job.  In both cases my children had a hard time transitioning from diapers to underwear for very different reasons and I soon found out that many of the advice I had heard and read about potty training just didn’t apply to them.

That is why I am very excited to be participating in Pull-Ups “Madrinas de Baño” campaign because potty training can be a fun and positive milestone and doesn’t have to be something that moms dread. Pull-Ups is bringing together moms’ favorite potty training tools along with a new 3D celebration. Pull-Ups created a mobile app that helps moms with potty training, gets kids motivated – and makes it fun for both.

Potty Training Advice

So as a Madrina de Baño I want to share with you my best advice for potty training the reluctant child:

• What works for some kids will not work for others. Each child is an individual and you have to find out what works for him or her. There is no magic method that works for every child.  You must look at your child’s specific needs, challenges and motivators and work with them in mind to develop a method that works for your little one and for you.
• Talk to your pediatrician. Get your doctor involved in the potty training process and discuss with him any concerns.  and make sure there are no problems like constipation.  My older daughter has always suffered from constipation and we had not realized that she was afraid to go potty because it was physically hard and painful for her, so she would usually go in her diaper during the night.  Once the constipation had been treated we slowly started working on convincing her that going to the potty did not hurt anymore.
• Always make potty training a positive experience. Never punish your child or pressure him. Learn to accept accidents as part of the process and focus on positive reinforcement. Children learn better from praise than from criticism.  Celebrate your child’s successes every day to motivate him.  To do this you can get some tips, ideas, tools and even download the Big Kidd app on the  Pull-Ups website and celebrate Every Flush.

• Forget about other people. Every time I heard a friend tell me how she had potty trained her son in 5 days or saw a child at daycare half the size of my little one without a diaper I stressed about my parenting skills and worried that maybe something was wrong.  Once I stopped comparing and stopped listening to everyone’s advice and occasional criticism (like my mom telling me it wasn’t possible for my little one to be wearing a diaper at 3 when she had me diaper free way before I turned two) I stopped pressuring myself and my little one and things became more positive.  Remember that how early or late a child potty trains does has no relation to your parenting skills or your child’s intelligence!
• Consider taking a step back. At some point, depending on the particular issue involved, we’re left with one alternative: let it be. Maybe your child is not ready, maybe he feels too much pressure or maybe potty training has become a power struggle.  If any of these things are true the solution might be to take a break from potty training. So, relax and be patient. Celebrate their first, second and every time they go to the bathroom… because when you least expect it, they’ll succeed. And continue to have him sit on the potty a couple/few times a day, regardless of what he does.
• Potty training a child take a village. Getting family members, friends and teachers at my little one’s preschool involved in the process and asking them for support was key to our potty training success.
• Use technology to help you achieve potty training success. With my older daughter we used books with fun sounds, songs and many other resources but today you can use technology to help you celebrate every time your child goes to the potty.  With this in mind Pulls Ups created Every Flush.

About Pull-Ups Every Flush

Pull-Ups brand believes that every try deserves a little celebration and that is why they created Every Flush. Moms can Visit the Pull-Ups website where parents can customize a digital celebration as a reward for successful flushes and learn more about all of the Pull-Ups Every Flush tools.  You can also visit the Pull-Ups Facebook page www.Facebook.com/pull-ups.

Parents can also download the free Big Kid App and enable an interactive 3D experience for their child as a reward for Big Kid success when they scan specially marked packages of Pull-Ups brand training pants with their Android or iOS mobile device.   With the Big Kid App you can download helpful resources and tools like the Big Kid Calendar, customize celebrations for each flush at the Party Room and take the Every Flush celebrations with you everywhere you go on your mobile phone.

Visit facebook.com/pullups to learn more about Pull-Ups and check out their video on YouTube HERE.

This is part of a compensated campaign with Latina Mom Bloggers and Pull Ups.  However, all opinions expressed are my own.

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Paula Bendfeldt-Diaz

Paula moved from her native Guatemala to SW Florida with her husband and two children and together they are discovering what it means to live life between two languages.

Paula studied architecture and now makes a living as a freelance writer,traveler and amateur photographer.She started her writing & publishing career as the editor of Bebé y Mamá, the first parenting magazine in Guatemala.She is the founder of www.GrowingUpBilingual.com and www.365thingsswfl.com and writes articles in Spanish and English for both magazines and the web on travel,food and bicultural and bilingual parenting .

When she is not on a plane or road trip she likes to create recipes inspired in the flavors of her native Guatemala.

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