Customer Reviews

It's Potty Time [VHS]

5 star:		(37)
4 star:		(27)
3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(10)
1 star:		(22)

 

 

These are the words that finally got my 4 year old to use the potty.

She had been potty trained since she was 2 and 1/2 but adamently refused to do No.2 on the potty. She never had any accidents day or night, and would go get pulls up, put them on and go. (I know, your saying stop buying them) but, if she did not have them she would hold it, which would result in another trip to the doctor.

After watching the video for only 3 days, she has been using the potty everyday for a week without any problems. She is so proud of herself, as are we.

This is the video to buy if you have a very smart, but headstrong only child. Now I can put all the money that I would have spent on pull-ups in the college fund.

Its amazing how a child can learn from singing rhyming songs and watching a video. Its the best!

Thank heaven for It's Potty Time! It saved my husband and mine's sanity. We had our second baby and after four months of trying to potty train our three year old we were ready for some desparate measures. Then my mother cut an article out of our local newspaper about potty training and they recommended two video's: It's Potty Time and Bear in the Big Blue House. I ordered both and It's Potty Time was a HIT. Our three year was so resistent to trying and after watching for only 5 days he was fully trained with NO accidents day or night! HE was asking to use the potty without us reminding him. I lent the video to another mom at his daycare center who was having the same problem and within a week her son was potty trained too!

I was extremely disappointed in this video. My son is 23 months old. He enjoys watching the other children in the video as the theme is a birthday party. The video is about 25 minutes long and spends about 5 total minutes showing the "potty". Heavy focus on an upcoming birthday party and being a "big boy". The majority of the children in the video are age 4. Only one scene shows a child in diapers. All other children are in underwear and can undress and dress themselves. All "potty" actions are shown on a big toilet, not a small potty chair. If your child is 3 1/2 or 4 and needs some reinforcement, it's okay, but the limited potty focus makes it not worth the money as a training video. Do not buy this video if your child is a beginner. Duke Family could have done a better job by focusing on children in various stages of training and decreased the birthday party focus.

I'm not sure what I think, but I'm inclined to agree with the viewer from Orlando. I had expected something that would model, more explicitly, what going potty was all about, how to do it, etc. for my nearly-three-year old.

Instead, this video attempts (with only minor success, I feel) to present a much subtler set of messages, most notably that going potty can involve sitting for a long time (and getting lost in a story), and that play may have to be interrupted -- but will then resume.

But there are, in my opinion, huge flaws:

#1. Boys are only shown urinating standing up, something my son is not ready for. (And they weren't really shown doing it, just dropping their pants.)

#2. My son complained immediately about the long Raggedy Ann story detour (the story "read" by the little girl waiting to poop) -- he wanted to know where the potty had gone.

#3. My son found the birthday party clown frightening, and wanted to know why he was being mean to the little boy. (He was teasing and tickling him.)

#4. The adults in the video are incredibly saccharine and dippy.

Diapers bother you? Me tooo! My son just turned 22 months old, and he has used the potty 2 times after watching this video(given to me by a friend)! Being that he is only 22 mths old we don't expect much, and we are not pushing him to do anything. He runs into the bathroom, places his stool at the potty, takes his diaper off and stands and waits. We are soo Proud of him, and this video is OUTSTANDING! The songs are funny to us, but very catchy! We find ourselves singing them without knowing it. YOU MUST GET THIS VIDEO!

People rarely learn to do the advanced things 1st! If your child hasn't yet grasped the concept of the potty; or is still attached to the use of his or her diaper - then choose a video more focused to beginning potty training. This video has cute songs, but generally dances around the fundamental use of the potty. It focuses more upon the older kid issues which is great for learning the independent use of the potty without adult involvement. This is definitely above the blue square skiers' rating.

My 2 1/2 year old was extremely excited about this video. Although it does show older children, she didn't seem to mind. It reinforced for her that once she learned to potty, she would be a bigger girl. It made potty training a breeze for us. We were all singing about super duper poopers after it was all done. I plan to use it for my 1 year old when the time is right. (By the way, it was recommended to us by a daycare director who has used it for a while.)

This video is a must have. It was recommended to me from a friend and she was right on. It is older as some reviewers suggest, but the kids don't care. The Birthday Party setting is great since it's not "in your face" instruction. There is NOT focus on being a big boy - it's has boys and girls in the video - the party is for a boy, however. The songs are corny for the adult, but GREAT for the children - my girls sing the songs over and over. It gives them the "language" and song to relate to and use during this important time in their little lives.

My 2 year old girl loves the songs and actually requests them when we're practicing potty use. However, most of the kids in the video are 4 years old and can already use the potty. One scene shows a younger girl (w/diaper) trying out the big potty. There's no use of a smaller potty. They do show girls and boys so that's helpful until your girl decides she wants to stand. For the songs and creating interest, I give it an A but for true potty content, I give it a B-. By the way, the songs are quite strange but cute!

It's weird. The adults are stiff, the kids are a bit robotic, I don't like clowns much, the little man hanging in the bathroom freaked me out, the music was creepy. When we first viewed it my husband and I looked at each other and shook our heads and said "How can this possibly work?"

None of that matters because my children were mesmerized by it, even my 5 year old who was a breeze to potty train at 20 months stopped having to be reminded to wash her hands after using the bathroom.

My son, who had no interest whatsoever in toileting, decided it was the thing to do after three watchings....why he's the best pooper I know!! (sorry, coudn't resist-you'll understand if you watch it!) He was completely trained even at night, two months shy of his third birthday. I've passed it along to a friend with the same excellent results.