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!

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It's Potty Time  Jan 13, 2000
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!

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Not For Beginners!  Aug 18, 1999
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.

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A mixed bag  Jan 16, 2001
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.

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Helps my 22 month old want to use the potty!  Mar 11, 2000 By Robin Brown
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!

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