Quick tip: Pull-up diaper alternative to help with potty training

February 19, 2:07 PMEarly Childhood Parenting ExaminerAngele Sionna

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My three year old is finally potty trained. It seems like it was a long road. She started experimenting with the potty at about a year old. Sitting on the potty for fun and experimenting with it in our routine were both part our system. We never forced it but wanted to make it easy and something she wanted to do. She had periods of success that never seemed to make it to the next level and stay there. Until, that is, we stopped using paper pull-up diapers.

An easy thing to do to hurry success is eliminate pants of any kind. But this only works around the house, but can really give potty training a boost. This works because no one likes to feel pee pee going down their legs. So that stops quickly. And calls for "potty" start coming quickly.

For going out in public, one easy thing to do that allows little ones to feel their pee without making a big mess is to use cotton undies with homemade cotton inserts.

These inserts are really cheap and easy to make. You can simply cut up old blankets into strips and sew the edges down with a machine. I used flannel swaddling blankets.

You can also use old burp cloth without sewing, just folded to make a strip. If you don't have any of these, a folded wash cloth can also work. Make sure it is really soft though.

There are cloth pull-ups on the market you can buy, but they're pretty expensive and found just using homemade cloth pull-ups that I mentioned above to be much easier and just as good, if not better.