New Training Pants and Potty Training Personality Profile Make Potty Training Easier for Parents and Tots

NEENAH, Wis., March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- If there's one thing parents can agree on, it's that every child is different. That's why all the major childhood milestones -- crawling, walking, talking and especially potty training -- have more positive results when parents tailor their support to their toddler's unique learning style.

Spring Training Made Easy

This spring potty training success is made easier with two new training pant choices -- PULL-UPS(R) Training Pants with Learning Designs(R) and PULL-UPS(R) Training Pants with Wetness Liner -- and a Potty Training Personality Profile at http://www.pull-ups.com/ to help parents choose which training pant fits their child's learning style.

New PULL-UPS(R) Training Pants with Learning Designs(R) have fading graphics inside and out that disappear when wet. Children that learn better through visual cues may benefit from using these pants -- he or she remains dry during training but begins to understand the difference between wet and dry when the Learning Designs(R) start to disappear. Also available are new PULL-UPS(R) Training Pants with Wetness Liner -- a thin inner liner briefly holds wetness against the child's skin before the wetness is absorbed to let kids feel wet to learn the difference between wet and dry.

Since we all know potty training doesn't happen in one day, both PULL-UPS(R) training pants feature Easy Open Sides -- just in case.

To discover which training pant may make training easier with a particular child, parents can take the Potty Training Personality Profile -- a quick quiz that helps parents choose a pant based on their child's learning style. The Potty Training Personality Profile was developed by the PULL-UPS(R) Potty Training Partners (PTPs) -- a panel composed of potty training, pediatric and parenting experts. "Children who acquire new skills quickly and learn easily from their own slip-ups, for example, will have a different training style than children who learn more gradually or by repetition," says Jan Faull, M.Ed., parent educator and PULL-UPS(R) PTP. "This information can help parents choose which training pant to use with their child."

Greater Tips, Tools and Rewards at http://www.pull-ups.com/

Parents can also download and print motivational tools from http://www.pull-ups.com/ , including games, certificates and progress charts. In addition, the site offers potty training tips from the PTPs with fresh ideas to keep your child excited throughout the process, for example:

  --  Have relatives or family friends call your child to congratulate him
      or her after a successful trip to the bathroom.
  --  Let children decorate their potty seat with a sticker for each potty
      victory!
  --  Call the PULL-UPS(R) Potty Training Totline toll-free at
      1-877-4BIG-KID to play a fun, motivational potty training song to
      reward your child during each step of the potty training process
      (beginning, mastering and completing) and get great tips for Mom, too!

"We know that every child learns differently," says Carmen Van Dam, PULL-UPS(R) brand manager. "Based on our research with hundreds of moms and toddlers, we've developed two new training pant choices so Moms can help their child learn in a way that he or she is most likely to understand."

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