Customer Reviews

Sesame Beginnings: Potty Time! (Sesame Street)

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3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(3)
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This book is an excellent potty-training book for little ones to read. It is a board book, which helps, but it also presents a variety of characters who are all at different stages of being ready to use the potty on their own. This gives your child the opportunity to decide how do they feel about their own situation -- are they ready to try or not? The one who isn't ready in the book is also "OK" -- there is no judgement against not being ready. But it is a big celebration for the one who just did it for the first time. Very positive and not pushing.

I found this book to be more appealing to my child than either "Too Big for Diapers" or "The Potty Book for Boys", which we also have for him to read while trying... Both those books are a little more instructive or pushy than this book is.

My 2 year old daughter loved this book. We used it on her Potty Party day, and she still loves to read it. It has been really helpful in getting her to try to go to the bathroom before we leave to go somewhere. In the book Zoe always goes before she leaves! I would recommend this book to others!

I guess based on the other reviews and the price, I expected more. This book seems really short to me. It covers the potty habits of 4 of Grover's Sesame Street friends (some of them like to potty - some aren't ready to potty and that's ok - etc.). It just seemed a little brief to me and didn't have much meat to it. My 2 year old son thought it was ok - but he isn't excited about it the way some of the other reviewers' children seemed to be. And I expected more from the flush the potty feature on the last page. It is a paper lever that is really easy to pull off if you have a child who is less than delicate with books (a board book with a flimsy paper pull tab seems contradictory to me...give me something a little sturdier...). I think the book is over priced for what you get (and if you buy it used, make sure the paper flush handle is intact before you buy - because that's really the only feature that makes this book stand out and it probably won't last multiple children).

This is a very simple book and I think that is part of its appeal. We started reading it to our son just after he turned one, and it was just a book. It wasn't only for the bathroom, or intended to help train him, but we treated it like any other book. I don't know how people can expect a book to potty train their children. Books like this shouldn't need to be instructional- the parents need to show them what to do. We had this and a few other potty books on the bookshelf (he also loved- and still loves- Too Big for Diapers) and we just read them when he chose them. We figured it would just gradually get him used to the idea, and when he was ready he'd do it. Well, at about 28 months, with very little prodding from us, he decided to wear big boy underwear and he kept them dry! He had his share of accidents, and it was a few more months before he'd poop in the potty, but overall he's done really well (he's almost 3 now). He still sometimes says "bye-bye pee-pee or poo-poo" like Grover does on the last page, and he still likes to read it occasionally. I highly recommend this and Too Big for Diapers for younger children to just get them used to the idea of using a potty.

I don't like the toilet training books that try to make the toddlers feel bad about themselves in order to encourage them to go. This book is great! Very non-jugemental! Yes, it's short, but it's to the point. Talks about going to the bathroom and how different people are in different stages, that you're still a good person even if you accidnetally go in your pants, and at the end Grover goes in the potty for the first time and he's excited and you get to help flush the toilet (a paper tab like in tabbed interactive books). A fun positive book introducing toddlers to potty training.

My son loved this book, especially the flushing on the last page!
It is not an informative book, it's just light reading for your potty trainer.

I got this to help with my daughter's potty training. The book is cute. The last page has a cardboard lever that you use to "flush" the toilet. My daughter ripped the lever off the first time she had this book. It wasn't easy to "press" the lever to flush the toilet either.

Other than that, the book is cute and doesn't have much pages to it. There isn't any actual usefulness of showing the characters using the potty. It seems more like an introduction to the potty.

It shows Bert washing hands, which is good, but if you are looking for a book to teach about using the potty, don't get this book.

My daughter liked to look at the book, and was already familiar with the Sesame Street characters. It didn't help or keep her interest while sitting on the potty.

My son loves this book. There is a little flushing potty at the end and he just sits there flushing it over and over. It's not an electric flush it is a little tab that you slide up and down to make the "pee pee go bye bye". I recommend this book.

Our son loves this book and requests it when he's sitting on the potty. It gives step-by-step directions for little ones curious as to what it's all about.

We weren't too thrilled with this book. My son spent a few minutes flipping the last page where it "flushes" the toilet.