My daughter is almost 2 years old and we need to get a training "potty" for her. They seem relatively inexpensive, however I'd like to get some advice on which ones work the best before I got out and buy one and find out I picked one that doesn't clean up easily, or has some other quirks. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Definitely the Baby Bjorn plastic potty.
It cleans up soooooo easily. It's a little bit more expensive than other potty chairs, but the easy clean-up is worth 10 times the price. You put the insert in backwards for girls (so the shield is in back) and turn it around or boys. My daughter used it successfully when she was training and now my son (23 months) is using it.
I potty trained both of my kids (daughter and son) by using the toilet seat that you place onto the regular toilet. That way I didn't have to clean up a potty chair mess, and it didn't have to teach them later to use the big potty. They kind of liked the fact that they were using the same toilet as mom and dad. Good luck!
L.,
The best advice I ever got from one of my girlfriends was to train them on the regular potty. I waited until my daughter was 2 1/2 and then taught her to balance on the potty. That way we didn't ever have to carry a kid potty seat around - she could go on any potty anywhere we went. She was potty trained in about a week (with occasional accidents here and there). She has never had a problem going on the regular potty.
Also, I didn't want to have to clean out the little potties :)
Good luck!
D.
Originally we bought a potty chair with all the musical bells and whistles. Well into potty training, I saw an all one piece, white plastic Baby Bjorn and it is still in use to some degree.
It is sooooo easy to dump and clean without fooling with a slide-in pot! This little Baby Bjorn travels like a dream and takes the pressure off someone else using the bathroom. It is light as a feather, takes up minimal space and downright practical and although not "cute", it is not unsightly either. I love it.
I found mine at that big baby furniture store facing Hwy. 360 at Division, where the Six Flags Mall used to be or still is, but I probably paid too much there. I just saw it, liked it and bought it and I don't regret it one bit!
C. S.
white plastic Baby Bjorn!!!!
good luck,
I.
We got a cute little potty that sang a song when my daughter used it but then it became a pain. It was always smelly despite my efforts to clean it after each use and just kind of grossed me out. We then invested in a ring for around the "big potty" which was so much better. It was pretty cheap.. I think I picked it up at walmart. Although the big potty doesn't sing any songs when she would go she doesn't seem to mind.
