There’s something extraordinary that happens when you bring together mother’s, their children and a genuinely supportive and FUN environment. Hence the catalyst behind one of the smartest and meaningful campaigns I’ve come across in a while, The Pull-Ups® Potty Partnership.
Pull-Ups designed The Pull-Ups® #PottyPartnership in collaboration with renowned child psychologist and potty-training expert, Dr. Heather Wittenberg to create a method that takes the guesswork out of potty-training with specially customized tips and advice according to your child’s unique potty personality. You can take the Potty Personality quiz here to find out which cute little potty personality your little one has. My son is a complete mix of a ready and willing, routine Puppy and a “Can’t stop, won’t stop” movin’ Squirrel.
My family and I had the amazing opportunity to attend the Pull-Ups #PottyPartnership Launch Event at the Disneyland Resort in Disneyland, California last weekend with four other amazing Canadian blogger moms and their potty-training children to learn more about this fantastic initiative, meet Dr. Heather Wittenberg and celebrity mom, Jaime King.
It was an amazing launch event featuring five fun-filled stations according to each individual Potty Personality where the kids can do an activity to achieve a sticker for their “passport” provided. Once they complete them all and have all their stickers, they can head over to the Big Kid Zone to claim their prize! My daughter who is a “Potty-Trained Veteran”, even had such a blast! She took part in all the fun with her little brother and played “big sis” to many little ones during the event.
The kids even got a chance to meet a few famous celebrity favourites of their own.
You’ll notice that popcorn plays a significant role in most of these photos. It’s what my son needed to feel comfortable and relaxed during the chaos and excitement of the event. Thank you, Popcorn Gods!
A great area of the event was courtesy of Walmart, providing a private space for the little ones to change their pull-ups (and some even trying one for the first time!).
It’s hard not to state the obvious, but where else do you buy your Pull-Ups® anyway? It’s always been Walmart for my family thanks to their always amazing prices and stocked up inventory. I enjoy the different characters they feature which happen to be both my kids’ favourite, so whether your child is into cars, Disney Junior characters, princesses or superheroes, they’ve got you covered (pun intended).
Head over here to check out the selection and pricing at your local Walmart.
And we all love to save money, don’t we? Get $2.00 off your next purchase of Pull-Ups® with these coupons here.
One of the highlights of my time at the Pull-Ups® Potty Partnership Launch Event was getting the opportunity to sit down for an intimate chat with celebrity mom, Jaime King. She had her husband and potty-training son present too which was super adorable.
One of the most important things that we discussed was the importance of genuine support between women (especially mothers). I remember my first time as a mom; I was one of the only ladies in my social circles at the time that was pregnant and then became a mom. I had undergone fertility treatments to conceive my daughter (and also my son!) so sometimes conversations and rapport was a bit more challenging. When most of my friends were busily starting their careers and/or finishing up their masters, I put a hold on my career to focus on starting a family, knowing I had a condition that made it very hard to get pregnant on my own.
But not everyone would understand. I didn’t expect them too. But I did hope for more support and empathy.
I didn’t even know Jaime also had the same issues with infertility and also felt a lack of support as pregnant woman and then as a mom. She was extremely candid and sincere during our chat and it honestly was so refreshing to see and hear from a celebrity figure. A reminder that we are all human, we all feel and go through the same struggles and battles so we need to be more understanding of one another, whether you’re a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, a single mom, a Hollywood mom or the Duchess of Cambridge… our intentions are all the same, which is the well-being and love of our children.
Much like we are as people, as moms, we are all perfectly unique in our style, just like our children are impeccably one-of-a-kind with their personalities as well. This is why the Pull-Ups® Potty Partnership just makes sense.
My daughter was a full-blown puppy! She succeeded with a potty chart and stickers complete with a prize at the end of the week. She also needed to be completely in the nude to do #2 (whatever works!). Reading books while sitting on the potty helped a lot with her. She was completely potty trained in a few days at 24 months.
My half puppy/half squirrel son was a bit more of a late bloomer (they say boys typically are!), and took a bit longer to feel confident to potty train. I found that both my children had traits of a puppy whereas they enjoyed the “treats” for a job well done and also a sense of accomplishment when tracking their progress.
In the beginning, I would sit him down every 30 minutes and load him up with fluids to get him to go. He would sit there for 5-10 minutes, complain and tell me that he didn’t need to go at all, and once he was up and off the potty… whoop, there it is.
I remembered that as discouraging as it may be and tiresome (especially having to wash and clean so many clothing items and stains off your favourite area rug), showing your child that you’re frustrated or any signs of upset, will only be a discouragement to them and may result in them regressing.
After one very stressful and what seemed like the longest first day of training ever, the second day was MUCH better!
I found that my son noticed when he made a mistake and felt really bad the first time, so he avoided doing it again. He also LOVES gummies, so I kept a mason jar filled with them next to the toilet as a treat for every time he went potty. It worked like magic.
Also the iPad played a valuable role in this (as the books did my daughter) when it comes to #2, as it’s a great distraction. He was scared to do #2 because of the pressure he may have felt, so if he’s distracted, he didn’t notice and just went!
Another great tip I found worked was allowing your kids to be in the nude (from below the belly button) during the week of training; don’t put anything on them and allow them to naturally feel when they have the urge to go. Allow yourself that week or weekend to be home with your child to train and do not make any plans to have visitors or go out. Always telling your little one that they’re a “big kid” now and designating a little spot in their dresser with their big kid undies, including them in selecting which ones they want to wear, always helps them feel proud and enthusiastic.
There was a time when I thought my son would never learn, but that’s a feeling that we all go through in the beginning of this memorable journey. But remember, it’s a partnership between you and your child so there will be work involved but moms always know best and remember, this is an important milestone for you and your child.
With the love and support from you, and the wonderful tips and advice with the help of the Pull-Ups® Potty Partnership and also your spouse, family and friends, your little Squirrel, Puppy, Owl, Turtle or Bear Cub, will be fully potty-trained in no time! And saying buh-bye to diapers is definitely something to celebrate!
You can check out more magical moments shared on my Instagram @caresgomez and using the #PottyPartnership hashtag.
Is your toddler ready to potty-train? Or are they successfully trained? Whether you have tips or trick to share or need some advice, leave a comment below and I’ll be sure to help you out!
I have a granddaughter who will be in pull-ups very soon, they’ve been around for a long time as my kids potty trained in pull-ups ! I’d love to take my grandkids to Disney World someday:)
Wish I could join you at this wonderful launch… a bit jealous!! LOL
What a wonderful event!! We shop at Walmart too, when we are buying pullups for our grandchildren!! Two of them are potty training now. My advice would be to bring them on the potty whenever Mommy goes, to give stickers or treats as a reward, and in the summer months to let them run around naked, like your idea! 🙂
How wonderful for you to attend. It is amazing what they can come up with, such as a Potty Personality!
that’s a fun introduction!
What a fun day they planned! You sure are lucky to attend these wonderful events!
Great partnership, and nice to see Walmart on board as well!
My 2-year-old grandson is somewhere between diapers and pull-ups, and he does like my Paw Patrol toilet seat for toddlers that I bought at Walmart 🙂
We started potty training with my daughter early. She just wasn’t getting it so we took a break. A few months later we tried again. This time worked perfectly because she was ready. We used a fun little m&m dispenser as a reward and lots of praise. The key to success is training when your child is ready.
WOW looked like lots of fun and food looks soo delicious hah the one photo of the cubby with the pull ups all neat hah so nor=t true after they are walking looks like a mess interesting article I sent it to my daughter in law 🙂 You have such a beautiful family
looked like great fun. You are so lucky to be part of it.
This event looks like an incredible party!! So cool! My own journey with potty training still hasn’t fully ended & my son is 11 yrs old. He has autism & therefore it’s taken many years for him to try to grasp the concept. But he is almost there!
It looks like an amazing event!
Awesome post and super good info!
No kids of my own but did litterbox train my cat which was a challenge unto itself!
That looks like so much fun. And that buffet is to die for!
Pull-Ups were my life saver! That being said, I’m so happy to skip the diaper aisle in stores now 🙂
This looked like such a great and fun event. The food looked delicious.
Looks like a fun time was had by all, the food, the decorations amazing. Daughter had a baby not long ago & such an event would be fun to go to
What a fantastic event! Big fans of Pull-Ups here!
Thank you for this opportunity it’s very much appreciated.
Some great ideas in your post. We are however way beyond needing any tips as my gf’s kids are all teenagers and adults.
This event looks like a great time. I am not a fan of pullups. With my children they were excited about having real underwear so all it took was one time that they peed in them and they wanted to go to the potty. Children do not like the feel of wet pants. Pullup are just a diaper to me???
Looks like such fun , great event lots to do for the kids 🙂 and the food looks scrumptious !
Omg, what an amazing event! LUCKY…!!!! We love pull-ups in our house. Can’t beat Mickey Mouse either 😍
Wow! I had no idea there were so many Pull-Ups products.
Looked like an awesome event! Those cookies are adorable 😊
What a great event, and look at all that food!
I am way past potty training but I used Pull Ups back in the day and they were a life saver. Glad to see they are still helping kids grow.
What a fantastic experience for everyone how cool to have had the opportunity to go with the kids. They seem to have thought of everything to keep them amused and content. Thank you for a great post.
I believe one has to wait until the child is ready to potty train.
What a great event and lucky you that you got to attend. Looks like it was a lot of fun!
My granddaughter is an Owl!!
Looks like an amazing event for the kiddies and parents
WHat a nice event! I love that Pull-Ups provides guidance and advice for the whole potty training process.
I must say, when I saw a potty personality quiz I thought of something else! Cute.
Wow, this looked like such a wonderful and fun event for both adults and children alike .
This sounds like such a fun event. My kids love Disney and we use Pull-Ups so this would be a win-win for us.
What an amazing event. Thanks so much for sharing. It looks like it was a blast:)
WoW that seems like an awesome event. Even I would love it there. (Even tho I have no kids). (I do look after kids a lot(nieces and nephews))
Looks like it was a really fun event!
Great article on potty training!
What a great event to attend! My girl was really excited to learn to use the potty….it was a really positive experience, and I can admit I expected the worst! lol
My daughter has the owl personality. We’re paused on the potty training right now.
What a wonderful way to get together, share tips and advice and receive some guidance and support. Potty training can be challenging for some families and daunting for others. This sounds like it would be quite helpful.
There were a couple of mothers that I had the opportunity to chat with from Los Angeles at the event that were really having a hard time and lacked the support. They walked out of the event with a lot more confidence and a bigger village than they walked in with. It’s always nice, for sure. 🙂 Thanks, Heidi.
Sounds like a fun event!
I have never heard of a pull-up party before but this sure is the coolest event ever,the photos are amazing and the food omg….looks so delicious.
Thanks, Kathy. The Pull-Ups Party was a special invite-only event for bloggers to help spread the word about this fantastic new campaign for the #PottyPartnership. 🙂
nice one,thanks for taking out time to educate parent on a potty training.you are amazing.love the pictures
Thanks, Bette. I thank the amazing folks behind this initiative that put this great program together! Such a smart and creative process to potty training between parent and child. 🙂
Wow! Sounds like it was an awesome and successful event that the whole family could enjoy. I love all the pics of your little ones and I definitely agree with your son, popcorn is a comfort food! My little guys are too young for potty training as of now but I took the quiz for my oldest and he’s an Owl which sounds about right for him. Thanks for sharing! I keep this in mind for when the time comes. #PottyPartnership
T’was fun! 🙂 It’s fantastic how pretty much spot on the quiz was for my son.
Proved very helpful when training him!
So amazing! Must have been a fab time! Getting to know the product and meet Disney characters! Too amazing!
It was a lot of fun. 🙂 Thanks!
What a great event. I am sure it was a fun time for your entire family. I know the reward system worked well with my nephew, we used M&M’s and stickers.
The reward system was the ticket for my firstborn too!
I raise 3 children. I do not beleive in pullups. It just confuses children. It is still wearing a diaper without the sticky tabs. When they wear underwear they might have one or two accidents and they learn they are making a mess and it dosn’t feel ok so they will want to use the potty.
Thanks for your input, Kim. I’ve definitely heard that as well and in some cases, yes, I can completely understand why this makes sense. I found for my son, he required them to best transition to his undies. I tried doing cold turkey without pullups at all like I did with my daughter (was successful for her) and it unfortunately didn’t work.
I found they were also a lifesaver for long road trips! So I think it definitely depends on the child and the scenario. I say whatever works for the parent and child. 🙂
What an amazing family friendly event you all got to participate in! Thanks for all of the info and the great photos!
Thanks, Anne.
What an amazing event! It looks like you and your beautiful family had a fantastic time!
Was definitely memorable. 🙂 Thanks, Nancy.
What an extraordinary event for you and your family to attend. I imagine the kids were thrilled to meet the different characters.
They totally were but my husband and I were equally thrilled! 🙂 Like big kids again.
Looks like is was a fun exciting time for all, lots of activities and food
What an amazing event! My Grandchildren are not yet trained, so I am patiently waiting for mommies to call Nana for advice so that I can check your blog posts for all the answers! 😉
My grandaughter will be into pullups sooner than later. What a great time everyone must have had! We love Disney!
Well it’s about that time that my granddaughter will be learning the potty soon, hopefully she will be easy to teach!!
This looks amazing!! I’m so jealous!!
I’m still reeling over all the excitement we experienced, Lindsay! It was certainly one of those “pinch me” moments when I was invited! 🙂
That Pull Up Party looks like great fun!! My little grandson of 22 months is wearing them and he is trying to get the gist of potty training.
Wow, what a promotion and you got to attend, looks like everyone had a fun time
Such an amazing event and to spend it with your family what a bonus
not going to lie my favorite part of this was the table full of goodies. lol. i can’t help it i have an extreme sweet tooth.
I couldn’t get away from the popcorn!
Looks like a super event I bet your kids love it 🙂
Sounds like it was a great event!
This looked like a fun time, hope you all enjoyed yourselves. We will be moving into pullups in the next couple of mths with our youngest (soon to be middle child come July hehe) 😀
Fun times ahead, Amanda! 😉 Let me know if I can help at all.
Congratulations on the coming bundle!
You and your family were lucky to be able to attend this event, potty training has come a long way.
It sure has! And I’m so grateful for it. 🙂
Lucky you What a fun time for your family -Great tips for Moms with young children
Thanks, Lillian!
I’m currently potty training my two boys and it’s not going so well. This looks like an amazing event. Thanks so much for sharing
Takes a lot of patience and time, Caryn.
Don’t worry it’ll happen sooner than you think. I know how discouraging it can me as well sometimes. Let me know if I can help at all! Good luck!
great and awesome
They sure didn’t have things like this 30 years ago when I had toddlers! Looks like a good time also.
What a wonderful event. Everything looks so cute!
Sounds like a amazing event, and the food looks delicious too! Making potty training fun for kids is such a great idea and it really helps. Thanks for sharing all the nice pictures, you have a beautiful family!
Thanks so much, Shirley! To think something as messy and not-so-exciting as potty training (well for us parents!) and creating something smart and fun for our kids according to their personality. What took so long, right?
Awww, too cute!
It was so adorable!
Wow what a great event. Is is wrong to admit the food attracted me the most. LOL Those cookies are so cute!
Food always grabs my attention first. Lol!
Looks like a lot of fun for everyone.
looked like an awesome event, would have loved to be there
My boys are now teens/young adults. I could have used some of their great tips as I was not good at toilet training at all.
nice… This was great
Sounds like a good time!! My twins were 2 days before my oldest turned 2yrs old and Pull-ups were used alot in my home. They are awesome!! Also unfortunately one of my kids wet the bed until he was around 8 yrs old so it was gret the they had bigger sizes!!
They are so great! I use them for my now fully toilet-trained son for bedtime because he does get accidents sometimes. Also for long road trips. I love that they have big sizes!
Wow what an amazing spread! It’s nice to make potty training interactive and not something to be feared !
Absolutely agree! It was a creative way to get the little ones to feel more comfortable and have fun with it!
This looks like such an amazing event! (not to mention the snack table) Lovely family and cute photos of your kids as well 🙂
Thanks, Judy! It was amazing.
Oh my! What an event!
You got to meet Jaime King! Wow! What a fabulous event you are so lucky.
Yes! And she is so sweet. Super real and beautiful, inside and out. Thanks, Emily!
I live in Canada. I may have missed something really fantastic.
I’m in Canada too! 🙂 It was just myself and 4 other Canadian Bloggers that were selected to attend this VIP event in Disneyland. It was great!
I like this article–very encouraging and accepting of parents and children as unique individuals. I don’t have children of my own, but I do notice a large variance in when children start potty-training, with two years old being quite common.
Theses pics. Are really nice
that snacks table though!!!!
It was amazing! I may have circulated around it more than I should have. Ha-ha!
What a great way to encourage parents to stick to it….potty training is so tricky!
It is very tricky. It truly does depend on your child’s individual personality. This is why I stand behind this great campaign.
That is a huge spread! Quite the potty training reward.
wow what an awesome event , super fun love all the food lol , great pics thanks for sharing !
The food was amazing, Treen! The sandwiches, fruit parfaits… mmm! And the coffee was pretty spectacular too! Just missing the wine and cocktails station for the parents! Ha-ha!
We’re just starting this here. It looks like such a fun event. The popcorn makes me laugh. Something comforting makes all the exciting and strange things going on all better.
Ha-ha! So true. He spilled it multiple times and it was like a rush to the popcorn refill station. The chaos of all the kids and media can be overwhelming for little ones and thankfully the popcorn worked best for my little man.
It was such a fun event, I love seeing your photos from the event. Your daughter was definitely a perfect Big Sis to all the little ones. I love that!
I was really impressed with Jaime King too, I wasn’t sure what to expect before we sat down but she was amazing to talk to!
It really was! So much fun jam-packed into a weekend!
She definitely enjoyed playing big sis to all the wee ones.
Yes, Jaime King was so real and I just love that about her. You can tell she was deeply affected by many of the topics we discussed and I can’ only imagine her own struggles especially as a celebrity.
Wow… WHat a FUN and great idea.. I love it. Its totally something worth a celebration!
Even more to celebrate once the littles have successfully potty-trained! 🙂 Woohoo!
Oh my! What a great event and what a great spread! I really love those letters balloons. =)
It was amazing! And yes, the spread and the letter balloons were nice touches. I’m a big fan of those massive letter and number balloons. I used a big silver 3 and my sons name in all silver for his 3rd birthday – so chic too!
Its been some time since my children or grandchildren have needed anything like this.These are a wonderful idea though.
They are veterans! Thanks, Scott.
Wow…looks like a really cool event.
Beautiful pics!
Thanks, Doris. It was a lot of fun. And the fact that it was in Disneyland wasn’t too bad either. 😉
What a great event, it sounds like it was quite the time. And it does look like your kids had fun! Pull-Ups are so great for potty training time!
Thanks, Judy. It was nice to celebrate this new campaign with the brilliant folks behind Pull-Ups!
I agree, I think they are fantastic for potty training.
First of I want that buffet. As for pullups I do not agree with them. When I started potty training my children I would purchase the best panties I could find and told them they were for grown up children. That made them want to wear them. Potty training was their choice and they had to prove they wanted to wear the panties. If they were alower to still do potty in them It would take longer and they would learn to not really try. Once trained out of 3 children only one had a accident and it was at night.
That’s great, Kim. Sounds like you had the potty-training down pat and an easy experience.
But again, it can be different for every child.
My daughter didn’t use pull-ups (straight from diapers to big girl undies) but with my son, the Pull-Ups worked like a charm.
Pull-Ups, for us, is amazing for travel (plane rides, long road trips or excursions) in case of any accidents in the event it was hard to find a rest room.
I have never heard of a pull-up party before,but wow what a time it must have been.Thanks for sharing all these awesome photos
Thanks, Kathy! It was actually a party celebrating their launch of the Pull-Ups Potty Partnership campaign.
It’s a wonderful initiative and I was very glad to be part of this launch party! 🙂
Our little guy has good days and bad days. It is such a hard road!!! Fingers crossed we will get there someday soon!!
Oh yes, it’s a bumpy road.
Won’t be long now. 😉
Wow what an event for the kids, I have never heard of a pull-up party before, looks like a lot of fun though, lots of fun and lots of goodies, I love them cookies!!
It was a great event celebrating this great new initiative with Pull-Ups!
This looks like the coolest event ever! My youngest son is potty training now. He’s got the pee pee part down well, but he doesn’t like going poopie in the potty. We are working on it.
Definitely takes time, Cheryl.
#2 was the tricky part for both my kids (as I’m sure most!).
It was all about distraction for them. I followed their poopies schedule and just before I know they will go, I had them on the potty with a book or iPad for a bit till they gone. Keep it up! Almost there! 🙂
What a great opportunity ! You’re so lucky to have attended this event !
Thanks, Diana. Very lucky, indeed! Humbled to say the least.
It was a great one!
Wow this looks like so much fun! What a beautiful family you have!!
Thanks so much, Julie-Lynne. You’re far too kind. It was a great event and I am lucky to have been able to attend with my entire family. 🙂