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I Love My Potty

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What a nightmare! Imagine your toddler deciding to stick his toys in his little toilet, or wearing it as a hat! Yuck. The toddler in the story loves her potty as a hat,a toybox, a car, a chair,and a drum. Only on the last page is it used as a place to go to the bathroom "and sometimes my potty is just a potty. I love my potty!"

I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone.

Do not buy this book. You wouldn't want your poor child to get the misconception that he might put his potty on his head or store toys inside. She missed the mark on this one.

"I Love My Potty" by Lara Jones is a brightly colored board book that attempts to reconcile toddlers with the oft-scorned, much-feared potty. Jones attempts to familiarize tots with the concept of using a potty by having her main character interact with her potty in non-threatening ways, such as using it as a race car. However, Jones crosses over into the unsanitary when her potty-familiarization includes "wearing the potty like a hat" and carrying things in it. Overall, "I Love My Potty" makes a valiant attempt at helping a toddler learn to cheefully interact with a potty, however it is enough to make any parent squirm as their own children follow the example of the little girl in the story and begin to wear potties on their heads.

I don't own this book, but my daughter brought it to me to ask me to read it while we were at the local learning centre. I thought, "Oh, good!" since we were trying to potty train her at the time. About 3 pages in, I was desperately trying to convince her she didn't want to read this book.
In this book, this child does absolutely everything I don't want my daughter doing with a potty. He puts it on his head, he puts toys in it, he turns it upside down and sits on it.
An absolutely terrible book for a child that's trying to learn to use the potty.

I totally disagree with the other reviewers on this, my child adores it, and it has helped her to understand the potty as a non threatening and useful item. The pictures are adorable and sweet, the colours are vibrant and bold. There is much going on in the book for toddlers to point at and discuss (like the toys that accompany the little girl on her potty adventures!)It is not a Potty training guide, but a softer and more gentle approach to identifying what a potty is. A really lovely book.