Comprehesive Facts on BoyGirl Potty Training Pants
If you have spent any time with a group of parents who have toddlers or school-aged children, the subject of potty training will come up eventually. Frankly, these discussions can scare a parent. Some children are just plain difficult to toilet train.
If a child does not want to reach that milestone, there really is not a whole lot a parent can do about it. What you can do is encourage and motivate your child.
Reusable BoyGirl Potty Training Pants from Canagoza are a great way to do that.
BoyGirl Potty Training Pants go up and down just like regular underwear, making it easy for your child to take them off and on when he or she needs to go to potty.
The pants allow a toddler to feel when they have had an accident, providing immediate sensory feedback for the potty training process.
BoyGirl Potty Training Pants help to keep accidents from exploding into big, uncontained messes. The pants allow you to open the sides for easy changing of particularly big, uncontained messes or messy accidents (Australian Nappy Association, 2015).
BoyGirl Potty Training Pants feature a waterproof layer, keeping clothes, furniture, and other surfaces dry while your child learns.
The pants have an inner layer of bamboo cotton, which wick moisture away from a child’s bum. Bamboo clothing can be antimicrobial (can kill bacteria and resist mold and mildew).
The pants also have absorbent middle layers of microfiber.
BoyGirl Potty Training Pants are breathable, unlike disposable training pants.
More about Potty Training and BoyGirl Potty Training Pants
When your child is truly using the toilet alone (which is what the term toilet training mean), they are able to dress and undress on their own. The main reason to switch from diapers to training pants is because your child cannot remove their diaper by himself or herself.
Keep the child in diapers until you can see signs (such as straining, grunting, or holding their genitals) he or she is about to go. Do not switch to underwear until he or she is toilet trained.
Because underwear really cannot hold or absorb children's waste, switching a child to underwear as a way to persuade him or her into being toilet trained is often a mistake.
Let your child choose the color or style of the BoyGirl Potty Training Pant — if he or she can do so. Allowing him or her to choose will help your child feel involved in this adventure. He or she may become excited about receiving a new “underwear” just like his or her older sibling(s) or friend(s) wear (Christophersen, n.d.).
Once your toddler begins to show signs for potty-readiness, it is time to find a comfortable pair of BoyGirl trainers. BoyGirl Potty Training Pants gives your toddler the ability to easily handle their underpants, just like a big boy/girl.
Your child will feel like a big kid when wearing BoyGirl Potty Training Pants.
All the features of BoyGirl Potty Training Pants ensure the potty learning phase will be a positive experience, both for you, as a parent, and for your child.
Many parents who find themselves frustrated with potty training have neglected to create a successful environment before beginning the process. Just because you have purchased cloth training pants does not mean your work is done.
Before you start potty learning, take the time to be sure your child is completely ready. Your child needs to be able to not only recognize the potty process, but also vocalize and communicate well.
Most children are not emotionally ready until between 18 months and two (2) years of age. Due to this reason, do not be too eager or disappointment and frustration may occur.
Once your child displays signs of readiness, you can then introduce cloth training pants and begin the potty learning process.
The most important thing you need for successful and stress-free toilet training is patience. With reusable training pants, you do not have to worry if it takes longer than you hoped. There is no ongoing expense of disposable training pants (Christophersen, n.d.).
Frequently Asked Questions: Training Pants
Why should I use cloth training pants?
The benefits of cloth products for your child over synthetic and disposable products have never been in question; it has largely been a question of convenience.
New technology has allowed cloth training pants to be used in an easy fashion. The reasons for training your child in cloth pants remain sound.
Let us go over a few of the reasons below:
a) Cloth training pants are cheaper than disposable training pants
Cloth training pants are an economical and useful part of toilet training. You will need many disposable training pants during the toilet training period, which cost a lot of money.
Who does not want to save money to use it for other useful purposes? Unlike disposable training pants, you will only need a few reusable BoyGirl Potty Training Pants from Canagoza.
According to Australian Nappy Association (2015), depending on how many accidents your little one has and what stage they are at with their learning, you may require as few as two (2), or if multiple accidents are happening each day, perhaps five (5) or six (6) pants (Russo, 2013).
b) Pull-ups (disposable training pants) can have negative health results
BoyGirl Potty Training Pants are better against your child’s skin than disposable paper training pants. Toddlers are active little people, and the chemicals, synthetic, and plastic materials that disposable training pants are made up of can be very abrasive on their legs as they move throughout their day.
Soft cloth will not have the same tendency to cause discomfort that disposable training pants may (Russo, 2013).
Cloth is softer than disposable paper training pants (Alexander, 2020). That is the end of the story. Otherwise, wouldn't we all be wearing paper underwear?
c) Your child will know when he or she has had an “oops”
One of the major barriers with regard to disposable baby products is that they may actually hinder the process of potty training. They are designed for maximum absorption, so a toddler may not even realize when he or she has done business in their pants.
Feeling the result of release is a big part of learning to identify the times a toddler needs to go to the toilet, so it is important they know when they have had an accident. Cloth training pants let your little one feel it right away.
The cloth training pants would not cause the friction between liquid and leg that disposable pants may cause (Russo, 2013).
d) Cloth training pants are eco-friendly
Cloth is better for the environment. These days, we are all concerned with minimizing our ecological footprint, and it is in our best interest and our children’s interest to use reusable products.
BoyGirl Potty Training Pants are used over and over, sparing costs of materials as well as cutting down on waste.
Juniper Russo, an American mother, says she values the health of our planet more than she values temporary convenience brought about by the disposable training pants, so she uses reusable cloth training pants (Russo, 2013).
e) Incorrect convenience
You may think disposable training pants are more convenient than regular cloth trainers, but the convenience of disposable training pants is largely an illusion. Is a midnight-run to a shop for extra disposable training pants really more convenient than tossing some training pants in the wash?
Consider the extra hours you may have to work to cover the cost of disposable training pants.
Cloth training pants are also not terribly inconvenient to wash: they come clean after just one cool-water load, and they can accompany other baby clothes (Russo, 2013).
I have never used cloth diapers, could I realistically use cloth training pants?
Totally yes, some people assign super hero status to anybody who cloth diapers, but contrary to this belief, even cloth diapers are pretty easy. Cloth training pants are a breeze.
Are cloth training pants going to be bulky?
It depends; daytime training pants should not be bulky. However, nighttime training pants can sometimes be, as you will adjust absorbency by using a BoyGirl AIO Booster Insert(s) in order to meet the needs of your child.
Many children find the cloth to be more comfortable than a disposable paper/plastic training pant alternative.
Please keep in mind a potty training pant is intended to be a trainer, not a diaper. That means it is not realistic to expect the pant to work as a full-blown diaper or overnight diaper. You need to change it if the child does not make it to the potty.
Again, cloth trainers are an easy to pull up (and down) pants with enough absorbency to hold at least one accident.
Do you have to use plastic pants over cloth trainers?
No, you would not need paper pants over any of the modern-day cloth training pants that Canagoza offers.
My child is only having poo accidents
Ugh, as messy as these are, the end will come. On a positive note, BoyGirl Potty Training Pants have a snap release on the sides to make cleaning easy. You can put DryBamboo Diaper Liners in the training pants to make cleanup easier.
My child is only having pee accidents
Even though training is not complete, having to only deal with pee accidents is a big relief. Choosing a trainer (BoyGirl Potty Training Pant) that pulls up and pulls down at this stage moves your child into a more underwear-like trainer.
My child only needs a bedwetting solution
You probably would not need very many training pants for bedwetting; one (1) or two (2) should be plenty. To achieve the level of absorbency you need, adjust the BoyGirl Potty Training Pant using a BoyGirl AIO Booster Insert(s).
My child has not had an accident in quite awhile, but I am afraid to take him or her out in public without a diaper or disposable training pant
The waterproof underwear style BoyGirl Potty Training Pants would meet your need for protection well. Training pants look and feel like underwear, but have a hidden waterproof barrier for your own peace of mind.
Summary
In sum, potty training can seem an unknown and dauntless task to parents at times. Sometimes, parents feel like if they just get the right gadget, their child will magically run to the potty and independently take care of their elimination needs.
We have all heard the wonder stories of friends and family, but we live in our own reality, and the truth is that potty training takes dedicated parental involvement for an unknown period of time, much like any skill or value parents want to pass along to their children.
Potty training is one of the first steps of many in raising your child to become an independent adult, and you will be guiding them behind the scenes through their teenage years.
It can be bittersweet to watch your child move to a new state of maturity. Nevertheless, it is very fulfilling as well.
Cleaning Cloth Training Pants
Like cloth diapers, cloth training pants should be washed using a mild (gentle) detergent. The pants can be washed with regular clothes if the pants have only been peed in (before storing the pants in a PeeGuard Wet Bag or PeeGuard Wet/Dry Bag or washing later, you can rinse the pants in cool water without adding detergent) and if you are not doing regular diaper or training pant laundry.
Use cool water to wash and rinse BoyGirl Potty Training Pant/s. Do not bleach the pants.
Do not also dry the pants using a machine (dryer). Instead, dry them outside in the sun.
Notably, gently squeezing your BoyGirl Potty Training Pant(s) to remove excess water will reduce the drying time -- will lead to quick drying.
From her experience with cloth training pants, Ronk (2012) writes:
For wet accidents, I rinse the pants and underwear in the sink and then toss them into the laundry basket (I usually do her laundry once a week on Friday with her daycare bedding). For solid accidents, I dump what I can into the potty. I continue with rinsing them in the clean sink water before tossing them into the laundry basket for the weekly laundry load. You can buy disposable flushable cloth diaper liners [DryBamboo Diaper Liners] and put them in the training pants if there are lots of poop accidents — makes [the liners] cleanup a lot easier.
References
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