Customer Reviews

Safety 1St Smart Rewards Potty

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This is a fantastic potty. My son quickly took to this new potty. At first I used it without the music (to underscore the functionality versus its toy attributes), but he really enjoyed the tunes from the moment we switched it on.

PROS
--The reward system is FABULOUS
--The tune is catchy, educational and reinforcing
--The music does turn off after awhile (thankfully)
--Kids LOVE the flushing, the music, the lights, the stickers, the chart
--The size is good (my 2.5 year-old is tall for his age and some potties were too short)
--He liked the seat that went up and down like our adult toilet.
--Very easy to clean up
--My son's favorite potty

CONS
--For some, the music may be loud, though you can lower the volume by putting a piece of packing tape over the rear speaker. Sounds tends to echo in bathrooms, so this may not be as much of an issue if you have carpeting.
--The removable splash guard can get knocked off easily
--Sometimes the music went a little kerflooey...playing the wrong music (Yea! You went, instead of the music when you first sit down.). Though I have wondered whether this just meant our batteries were wearing down, not sure about that yet.

Overall, I highly recommended this potty. In fact some of my son's therapists were delighted when they saw this potty and began recommending it to other clients, almost immediately.

I looked and read reviews for weeks before I ordered this chair. I have seen many and had several,(I used to babysit). This is the best. How many kids would'nt love to hear it say "good job", and it tells you to flush and don't forget to wash your hands. Has cute sayings and music and lights and stickers with a poster board to put them on. Our granddaughter is 2 and a half, and totally trained except for #2. you won't regret this purchase.

I have used this potty chair on 2 children. My oldest (a boy) and my youngest (a girl). Both kids were intrigued by the sticker incentive, but I could have bought stickers much cheaper than the increased cost of the potty. The chair is frequently inaccurate and reward the kids for a sucessful potty when they did not actually pee or poop. Trust me... my kids got pretty savvy. My son figured out that if he put his foot on the sensors he could get the toilet to offer a sticker. Over all a good potty, but not any more so than the basic models.

This is a nice little potty chair that looks very similar to a real toilet and makes a flush sound when you push the handle (but only after you actually go!). My son loves the song and the music "Hey there, big kid. Welcome back! You're so smart you're right on track! Take your time and concentrate. Going potty's just so great!" This is played when the kid sits down, which is then followed by a little repetitive instrumental ditty, which eventually stops if your child sits long enough. When the child gets up, the potty chair says cheerfully, "Nice try! Come back and try again." If any 'deposits' are made, the potty says, "You did it! Hurray!" followed by a drumroll and, "Don't forget to flush!" Then you push the handle and 'flush' (complete with a real flush sound) and the potty sings, "Hey there big kid, look what you did. You're so clever you're so smart, you earned a sticker for your chart!" and says, "Time to get your sticker!" A sticker dispenser is built into the 'tank' and the stickers can be rolled in or out by the parent from the back. There is also an on/off switch on the back which I used when my son discovered that he could simulate a deposit by putting his hand or some toilet paper in the bowl. When he did that, I switched the chair off so that he didn't get the song, and eventually he quit trying to 'fake it'.

What I like about this chair is that it is very consistent with its praise and message. "Nice try!" if you don't do anything, major hoopla and fanfare if you do. As a parent, I'm not always as consistant as I would like to be (sometimes I'm able to sit right there and encourage him every step of the way, sometimes I have to change my infant daughter's diaper or whatever), so having little helping hands like this are great. Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting leaving it to a talking toilet to potty train one's kids, I'm just saying that I, personally am not perfect and having tools that make parenting easier are appreciated.

What I don't care for about this potty are the following:

1. What bothers me most is that the tank is separate from the seat and removes so easily that you cannot lift the potty by the tank. (By "tank" I mean the back.) It is held together by wires that I am constantly afraid are going to break. They are supposed to tuck into the back, but they only do so with great effort and then as soon as you forget that you have to lift the potty by the base, you have to retuck the wires again. Consequently, the wires on mine stick out in the back and cause the tank not to sit 100% flush (no pun intended, ha ha!) with the seat. This does not affect the functionality, only the ease with which you can move the whole unit. This issue is what made me take away a whole star from my rating. I would have given a 5 because the other problems I have with it can be easily gotten around.

2. When the batteries are low or there is ANY moisture on the bowl - especially on the underside of the bowl - the potty reads any stimulus as a deposit. In other words, after you wash the bowl, DRY IT WELL or else the next time your kid sits down, the potty will congratualte him/her: "Hurray! You did it!..." and ask to be flushed, etc.

3. The potty guard, as has been mentioned by others, comes off very easily. (It is not shown in the current picture of the product, by the way). The intention is that if you have a girl, you don't need it, so you can take it off. If you have a boy however, it is TOO easy to take off, and it is, in fact, the very first thing my son did when he approached the potty for the 1st time. If you have a boy that simply MUST push every button and pull every knob, you will need to fasten the splash guard on somehow. (One reviewer did it with a small screw. An excellent idea that I may try if super-glue doesn't work.

4. It is loud. Very loud in a bathroom. Not ideal when you live in a small house and your infant daughter is napping right down the hall (just saying). However, this is easily remedied with duct tape or something similar to muffle the volume. We actually have some white duct tape that we have just for loud kid toys.

One note, if your kid is not really interested in potty training, this chair will just be a fun toy. I tried my son on it way before he was actually ready to start potty training and he sat on it but would get up immediately to see where the songs were coming from. He loves to push buttons and make noises and songs happens and he quickly learned that if you lift the seat, you can just push the button with your finger and get the first song and touch the sensor in the bowl to get the second song. To be honest, I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. Maybe it's bad because it turns the situation into a game, or maybe it's good because it makes potty training fun even before a child is ready. I'll leave that up to the child pyschologists. It seems to have been good for my son so far. Now that he is older and more interested in actually USING the potty, he is already familiar with it and enjoys sitting on it. He actually enjoys the rather repetitive music and will stand up and sit down again to restart it when necessary. (By the way I HIGHLY recommend the 3 in 1 book: "New Baby, Potty Time, Pre-school" by Roger Priddy.3 in 1: New Baby, Potty Time, Pre-school My son LOVES it and has been much more interested in potty training since reading the potty story.)

One other thing that I like about this potty is that you can take the seat off (you can detach it easily underneath) and put it on the big toilet when they are ready. I tried it and it is very secure and steady. I also have a baby bjorn toilet seat and it does not sit flat and steady on the toilet because of a rubber hanging handle. This potty seat is much better for that.

We bought this because our son wasn't enjoying potty training too much.

With this toliet we placed it in his room, so he would feel like it was his own. It has caught on and the potty training has improved greatly. The songs the toliet sings are now all sung along with and he gets so excited when he completes the task and gets a sticker for his chart.

We did take the stickers out of the toliet and give them to him ourselves. He quickly learned he could just pull the stickers out from the toliet.

When cleaning the bowl out you have to make sure that you completely dry it or the sensor may not work the next time your child uses the toliet.

Overall we are very satisfied with this toliet.

We were having a hard time getting out son motivated to potty train. My son is tall for his age, so I wanted something a little bit higher off the ground, and that had a rewards system. I found this potty, (which I couldn't find in any stores), and it has been great! It talks to the child, and "senses" when they go potty, making big fanfare! It comes with a chart to put the star stickers on, and works like a charm with our son. WELL WORTH THE MONEY!

This potty is very effective with our daughter. She loves it and uses it as more than just a toy. She loves the stickers, especially.

My husband brought this little potty home for our two-year-old son. When we first tried it, all he wanted to do was play with it, which is normal and okay. He wanted nothing to with sitting on it. Also, we had the same problem with the splash guard getting knocked off easily, so my husband actually screwed it in place with a tiny screw and the problem was solved. The splash guard does seem a little short for my boy... he sometimes kind of "hangs" out over the top of it. The height is great, and its really cute!

my son (26mo.) has so much fun with the stickers and music. he also like to flash the toilet. this was gift for us, and we really enjoy using it. I don't think it light up anymore though... maybe broken? oh well, my son enjoy it because of music and fun sound. only problem is that guard comes out too easily. we learn to put the guard after he sat down, it doesn't comes out when he stands up, so not too bad. really easy to clean. he is learning numbers because of the stickers and the charts, yay!!

I thought this was going to be a great potty for my son, come to find out it was the wrong decision! He loves to dance to music too much, so while sitting on the potty he thinks he is suppose to dance instead of go potty. The sticker thing doesn't work on ours, maybe I don't have it set up right? The thing that I like the most about this potty is the seat converts for the big potty in which I have ended up using instead of this potty. I love the concept, but just didn't work for my son!