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2.0 out of 5 stars
Fun, but no learning!, April 3, 2006
This review is from: Fisher-Price Fun To Learn Potty (Baby Product)
This seat is definitely cute and lots of fun! However, it seems to be a little too much fun as my son has completely missed the purpose because of all of the distractions!
Reasons I do not recommend this product:
1) LOUD, unadjustable music
2) Sensor for when your child uses the potty is much too sensitive; if your child reaches down the sensor blares music telling the child they used the potty
3) The music that blares "You did it" then tells the child to get toilet paper...Then the toilet paper tells the child to flush...Good concept, but just way too much when the child didn't go in the first place!
4) Unlike some other urine guards, this one is a small hard plastic piece; my son had a hard time sitting down into a position without catching himself on it and it hurt!
5) Urine guard is too easy to remove; another fun distraction
6) At 22 mos, my son seems almost too big for this potty. He has always been tall for his age, but 22 mos is on the early end of the potty-training spectrum!
We have had more success with a $[...] soft potty seat that goes on top of the regular toilet. The Fisher Price Fun to Learn potty has just been an expensive toy for us.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Leave the batteries out for potty training, January 18, 2007
This review is from: Fisher-Price Fun To Learn Potty (Baby Product)
I bought this potty because I thought it was SOOOO cute, looking like a real toilet with the toilet paper roll and everything! I still think it's cute, but just like many other reviewers say, all the music and talking and sounds are WAY too distracting to be able to actually learn potty training. And, like other reviewers say, the sensor is NOT accurate, so it's always saying the child went potty when they didn't. Very confusing for a child who's trying to learn to really "go" in the potty.
We're currently potty training our daughter, and we have three training potties -- this one, an older one that has a soft seat, and one that fits into the ring of the big toilet -- and this potty is the last one my daughter will pick when it's "potty time." When we first got it she had a blast with it, using it as a toy and nothing more. Now that the newness has worn off, she shows very little interest in it.
If I had it to do over, I would have given her this potty without the batteries in it and without her even knowing it had the capability to make all the sounds.
Here's a suggestion: Don't put in the batteries until your child has mastered potty training. Then, as a reward for his/her accomplishment, put batteries in and show your child what the potty can do. With the training part out of the way, the sounds won't be such a distraction anymore.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A HUGE disappointment., December 17, 2006
This review is from: Fisher-Price Fun To Learn Potty (Baby Product)
We bought this thinking our son would love the neaty gadgets and sounds...
We had several major issues with it.
1) The pee guard. It doesn't really latch on and STAY on. Our son was irritated with the pee guard we he was first learning and kept ripping it off the seat then throwing it accross the room. As luck would have it, when I would go retrieve the item, he would pee and since there was no guard, the pee would go everywhere BUT in the seat/ pot.
To resolve this I had to use special adhesive for plastics (super glue didn't work AT ALL) which took 24 hours to set which interuppted our potty training. It also turned part of the seat yellow which made it look dirty even when it was not. But I had no choice- the guard HAD to stay on.
2) The sensors were too sensitive and would go off even when he did nothing. He could just sdjust his position in the seat and it would tell him he did a great job going potty even though he never went.
3) The sounds and gadgets were TOO distracting. He wanted to play with them and would turn around in the seat and this would sometimes be when he was about to pee and it would end up all over me/ the floor/ whatever was nearby. I finally just took the batteries out and told him it was broken.
4) When he was ready to use the actual potty, we took it apart per direction and placed it on top of one of our toilet seats. Everytime he pees I have to hold down his "bits" because the seat does not go all the way down to make a seal between the potty seat and the toilet seat, thus it leaks out from under the potty seat onto the toilet seat and then down the front of the toilet and onto his pants/ underware/ etc. The pee guard is useless for this feature. Sometimes even when I do hold his stuff down, if he wiggles or moves, then he is not in position... There is only one position he can be in or it will go all over the seat and down the toilet and onto his clothes.
It was the most expensive toilet seat available at the store. We thought we would be getting a top quality seat from begining to end of our son's potty training experience. The price is what motivated me to try and make it work for us. Finally, I threw the darned thing in the garbage and just got a circo toilet seat with a pee guard for the toilets. It was the least expensive toilet adapter and it turned out to be the best.
If we have another child, I am going to get the basic toilet seat/ no frills and the inexpensive toilet adapter. Both together were a fraction of what we paid for this seat and would be a million times less aggrevating.
DON'T waste your money.
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