Had been thinking recently about how to start getting Ben to give up the night time pants (pull up nappies). I know it is completely normal for kids up to five to still need a nappy at night, but I had no idea really how to get him started; his pants are normally sodden by the morning.
We usually buy the Tesco own brand pull-ups, fairly cheap and cheerful, they have jungle animals on them. Some have lions, some elephants or giraffes, and some monkeys. And it is the monkey ones that were the problem. Ben didn’t like the monkey ones. and refused to wear them, piling them up on his chest of drawers. When I asked him why he didn’t like them, he said that he didn’t like the monkey, didn’t like his eyes, or the way he looked. So we amassed a few pairs of unused monkey pants.
The other night we ran out of pants. Except for a large pile of monkey ones. I explained to Ben that they were the only ones we had, and that he would have to wear them, and we would go shopping for some new ones in the morning. Anyway, Ben decided that he would rather not wear any than wear monkey ones, and has now been dry at night for over a week. We take him to the toilet when we go up to bed, he is usually half asleep, you have to prop him up and his aim is even worse than normal, but he goes straight back to sleep and has been dry every morning. He is very pleased with himself, as are we with him.
PS – if anybody has a good use for some monkey pull-ups, let me know.