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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A - Young kids are not going to distinguish between pull-ups and a diaper.  :roll:

B - Why is an almost 5 year old wearing a pull-up and running around in it without clothes in front of guests? I don't care if they're 'almost' family. [/quote]

I should have said, but this wasn't a comment made by a 'young' kid. She's actually going to be going into high school next year. Certainly old enough to know better than to say something like that.

We weren't planning on him being in just a pull-up, he actually *did* have a shirt on, just no pants. That's generally what he wears at bedtime while we're at home, so he ended up just wandering out like that while we were helping our youngest get situated for bed.[/quote]

To her, it is a diaper.   A pull-up is a diaper.    Perhaps it's been a long time for you, but 8th graders don't always know when "they should know better."   Wait until you have an 8th grader!

Perhaps your friends were thinking the same thing but knew better not to comment.  
 
And yes, at that age, your kid should have on pj bottoms until he gets into bed.   [/quote]

Honestly, I’m an adult and I can’t tell the difference just by looking at a kid walking by. Especially if they have a shirt on. [/quote]

DP. And the salient reference when someone mentions a "diaper" isn't that you don't pull it up -- it's that you poop and pee in it. That's the purpose.

String bikinis are a lot more challenging to get on than velcro tabs, and you tie them on (at least the first time), not pull them up -- but that doesn't make them diapers. You don't poop and pee in them. How you put them on really is just a distraction to the purpose.[/quote]

You people are so obnoxious. It doesn't matter if she thought it was a diaper, or if it's reasonable to think a pull-up is a diaper. The point is that she mocked OP's 4yo for wearing it. If it was a diaper, is it fine to mock him? JFC[/quote]

Where did I say it was okay to mock him?

I'm just saying that calling it a "pull-up" doesn't make it not a diaper; i.e., something you can poop and pee in. "Pull-ups" are a form of diaper that you can pull up, but they are still a form of diapers. You don't mock kids for it, obviously, but the term isn't as incorrect as people make it out to be. Kids want to call it something different, but that doesn't make it something substantively different.

If you are going to call Depends something else, it's "adult diaper," not "adult pull-up." Doesn't mean you should mock someone for wearing them, but "adult pull-up" is ludicrous. [/quote]

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