[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: advice/afterhours club/bribery, advice/toilet training

[Mary Jennings]

Catlady wrote:

>I've been following the discussion of toilet training with great joy
>that I am child-free, but I don't know what 'pull-ups' are. I
>checked on-line dictionaries and found only two definitions: 1)
>chin-ups, 2) cheap 'n' cheerful roadside 'cafes' for lorry drivers.

Nope, neither of these 2 apply :)  Pull-ups of the toilet training variety 
are disposable training pants made of the same material as nappies/diapers.  
The difference is that they go on an off like pants, rather than being 
strapped on like diapers.  The idea is that the child can use the toilet 
whenever he/she wants without the parent having to re-do the nappy up all 
the time.  They also come in handy when one is "blessed" with a 
3-and-a-half-year-old who shows no remote sign of going dry as even the 
extra-large nappies no longer fit.  In that case, the parent really goes for 
broke as pull-ups are more expensive than normal diapers, which are rip-offs 
to begin with.

Yes, toilet training has been the bane of my life for the past few years as 
well.  Two of the 3 are now dry during the day, and the little one is just 
20 months old...and seeing as his older brother was 3 3/4 when he finally 
left the daytime pull-ups behind I'm not holding my breath.

Mary Ann
(who could probably have bought a Mercedes with the money she's spent on 
nappies, pull-ups, and baby wipes over the past 5 years)

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