Customer Reviews

Fisher-Price Fun To Learn Potty

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4 star:		(16)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(18)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

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.

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.

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.

I have tried everything in the daunting task of potty training my daughter. I have bought every book and every gimmick. This is the first thing that has worked. The sound is a bit loud but it doesn't seem to bother my daughter. She loves that it looks like a really potty with out the huge size. I would recommend it.

I bought this potty for my two year old when I started to train her. I liked the fact that she could pull out and empty the potty herself, and it looked like a real potty. I was however disappointed with all the musical and noises that it made. It was very distracting, and she would not actually go in the potty till I took out the batteries. I wish it did just a simply reward noise after she did her business. The flushing handle and toliet paper noises kept her to distracted to actually go. It said "Up and Down" when you put up and down the lid, and gave a musical reward for just sitting. It would have been better if it just gave a reward for going in the potty, plus I am sure that it would have made it more cost friendly. If you buy this do yourself a favor and not put in the batteries when you give it to your child.

Here's why I would buy another, simpler product.

1) the seat is so sensitive that the music/reward tunes blare out "You did it!" or "Get the toilet paper" with the slightest pressure. Not exactly what you want for kids who are just getting used to the idea of going on a toilet. My son thinks he's really gone potty & wants to play with the toilet paper or the flush handle long before he's truly gone!

2) Like other reviewers, I noticed early on that the splash guard comes off very easy - makes a nice mess when your little boy pulls it off at the last minute & whizzes all over the floor, his pants, etc. Kind of defeats the purpose of the catch basin.

3) VERY LOUD music is not adjustable. Even my son puts his hands over his ears & says "Too loud". He even goes so far as to turn the thing off himself as soon as he's finished.

4) Seat is very low to the ground & makes it difficult for late potty trainers. My son is 2 1/2 and is tall for his age & squatting down this low has been hard for him.

We bought this mainly because our son loves to flush the toilet & play with the toilet roll. We thought if he had one his own size it would be a better learning tool & while he does seem to enjoy going on this potty versus using the stool to climb onto the big toilet with the ring, this is NOT the one to buy. All the bells & whistles are obnoxiously loud & the seat is barely functional for it's designed use - toilet TRAINING. I love all the other FP items I have, but this one is a complete LEMON.

I agree, this is more of a toy. My 2 1/2 yr old twin boys took to playing/sitting on it immediately, and as other reviews stated, it sang "you went potty" when they clearly didn't. My biggest grip, however, is the urine splatter guard for usage w/boys. The guard doesn't "clamp" on tight at all, so when my kids simply sit down, the guard falls off, or it simply falls off when they try to lift the seat. When I called to complain to FP, they didn't seem concerned -- don't they even test their products??!! Also agree w/how low it is to the ground, and it only accomodates a 40 lb child - other seats are good for 50 lb child. Save your $$, and go w/a cheaper potty.

This is my first review-only because I disagree with all the negative reviews on this and this potty chair is so wonderful. This potty is easy to clean and very easy for the little ones to use all by themselves. My son will be 3 in 4 months(and he is big for his age) and this potty is not too little for him. He loves the music and it is not distracting to him or too much fun. I however did not use the splash guard as I didn't see the need so I dont know if it falls off easily or not. We had tried everything to potty train him and this chair along with letting him go without pants or diapers on or making sure his training pants are easy for him to pull up and down is the only thing that has worked. He gets to use it by himself and he even dumps it into the real toilet afterwards and he gets very excited about it.

We thought this potty would be nice because it looks more like a real potty than some of the others. But like others have experienced, my daughter has more fun playing with it than sitting on it. The first time my daughter communicated the need to go potty, she sat on it for a few seconds, then got off to play with it. She ended up going potty on the floor right next to it, which scared her and I think slowed her potty training progress.

Also, even when she is just sitting on the potty, the sensor is constantly going off and telling her she went potty when she didn't. How confusing! I may go out and buy a Baby Bjorn to replace this thing.

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Update: I did buy a Baby Bjorn potty, but my daughter really did love playing with the Fisher Price potty, and once she got old enough, it was the one she wanted to use. So maybe it's not so bad after all, despite its quirks.

Let me tell you, I have a Home Daycare. I have been working
with 5 girls toilet training for months now ages 2 and 3 years
old. On the first day of using this item with my children, all
had a dry day. This product adds spark to toileting. I had
someone with their pull-up down, in line to use this potty all
day long. Not one of my children was distracted by the interaction. All of my parents were extremely pleased, and are
going out to purchase one for their use at home also!! Another
GREAT Fisher Price product!!!!