It's Potty Time

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!


It's Potty Time   January 13, 2000
51 out of 51 found this review helpful

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!


A mixed bag   January 17, 2001
30 out of 34 found this review helpful

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.


Odd video, but son LOVED it   March 7, 2001
19 out of 22 found this review helpful

I have to agree with some of the other reviewers. This video has a very odd feel to it for adults. The little man and the clown made me very uncomfortable. However, my 3 1/2 year old son loves it. He is a very smart, head strong child who refused to use the potty. Ironically, he started urinating on the toilet the day that I ordered the video. I was going to cancel the order, but decided that it might be good reinforcement. Less than a week after receiving the video, he became a "Super Dooper Pooper". The video comes with stickers for rewards. I give it three stars because he likes it, but no higher, because I don't like it and those silly songs get stuck in my head.