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Father Christmas is taking all my 3 year olds pull ups away with him when he drops off his presents Christmas Eve.  I’ve been told by him that if Santa brings him some big boy pants then he’ll go to the toilet and won’t need them anymore.

Well, this is our last resort after a year of trying every single way we can think of to get rid of the pull up pants. We know he’s capable of going to the toilet because he does once a day before his bath at night time.  Getting him to go any other time of the day though would be nothing short of a miracle.  Yes, he did right at the beginning because I suppose it was a novelty being new to him, but now I’ll watch in disbelief when he’s obviously weeing/pooing in front of me. When that happens I’m like a mad woman on a mission to get him to the toilet in time to do it there instead of me having to change another putrid nappy.  At 3 and a half now changing his bum literally makes me gag.  Its no longer baby poo we’re talking about but poo that should be flushed down the toilet straight away!

Now, when I say we’ve tried everything I really do mean it.  Sticker charts, rewards, bribery, praise.  We’ve done tick charts for the whole family, so everytime one of us goes to the toilet we get a tick.  We’ve even had a money box next to the toilet so whenever he went he’d get money to add to his collection so he could buy a toy.  We’ve let him choose his own big boy pants too, which he was really chuffed about only to get home, put them on, then after an hour or so saying he didn’t need the toilet yet, proceed to make a gigantic puddle on my lounge floor.  Thank god for wooden floors is all I can say.  My house would stink to high heaven if I had carpet with the amount of ‘accidents’ i’ve mopped up.

So my wish for Christmas is this – Please Father Christmas bring my little man some pants with magic wings on them that fly him to the toilet when he needs it!  That in itself would make my Christmas just perfect!