Product Review: The Fisher Price Royal Step Stool Potty

Well, I guess I should have known. After months of trying to encourage my toddler daughter to use the potty, I was beginning to wonder if she would ever be an eager participant in potty training. The solution, it turned out, was a very simply one. Her father and I had tried every form of encouragement out there - everything from cheers, applause and candy to promises of a new toy. We even tried backing off altogether for a few weeks. Nothing worked. Evidently, my daughter required something altogether different to make her excited about using the potty. Who would have guessed that she needed to hear a musical fanfare each time she used the bathroom? Surprisingly enough, the answer to all of our potty training angst was the Fisher Price Royal Step Stool Potty.

I started introducing my daughter to the idea of potty training when she began to show signs of being ready, which was around eighteen to twenty months. I bought her a little potty and talked about it. By the time she turned two, she was interested enough to sit on it for a while, but nothing ever happened. We kept up the positive encouragement, and continued to talk about it, but her interest in potty training waned. When she was around two and a half, she would sit on the potty about once a week, and sometimes she had success. My husband and I would cheer and dance. We took her to the store to purchase underpants and training diapers, and she was so excited. However, when it came time to actually wear the big-girl pants, she tried it once and then refused. She began to say that she wanted to wear diapers forever. At a loss, I backed off completely.