The Potty Book - For Boys
by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
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Book Reviews of The Potty Book - For Boys
Book Review: The greatest Potty Training tool we've found!
Summary: 5 Stars
Our son just turned 2 but has been showing signs of being ready to potty train for some time. We haven't pushed it at all, but after ordering this book for him, he's decided to start using his potty. At first he'd only sit on it with the lid down and his clothes on. Then with the potty lid up, and last night, he actually used his potty! While reading the book: We have developed a little game of looking for Henry's (the character in the book) diaper on each page of the book, which he really enjoys. We also laugh and clap for Henry when Henry uses his potty. This books is very cute, and the rhyming text grasped our sons attention from the very beginning
Beware though, if you get to read it as often as we do... you may find yourself repeating it throughout the day!
Considering my sons complete defiance against the potty before we got this book and a potty seat for him (we originally had bought a toddler size toilet seat which he hated), and his total acceptance and excitment about using the potty now, I would be inclined to say that this book will help nearly ANY little boy with potty training!
Book Review: The Potty Book for Boys
Summary: 5 Stars
The Potty Book for Boys is a potty training books that looks to a little boy's eagerness to grow up. It starts off discussing all the things that the little one has learned and can now do that he couldn't as a baby. That, the next step is potty training.
This book has a kind of light sing songy feel to it. The little boy in the book has a teddy bear who he talks to and helps him while on the potty showing that potty training isn't scary. In fact, it's fun and a natural part of growing up.
I'm not sure if my little guy is convinced that potty training is fun. However, this book did fix one issue we had been having. The first potty book we read had a little girl sitting on the potty with her clothes on. My little one assumed that you needed pants on to use the potty. This created a great deal of confusion and anxiety. The Potty Book for Boys also shows the boy sitting on the potty with his clothes on but then shows him taking off his pants to actually use the potty.
Book Review: If only it were this easy.
Summary: 3 Stars
I gave this book three stars because it does develop in the child an "if at first you don't succeed, try try again" attitude, and the text is written as a cute poem, which is more that can be said about most potty training books.
However, the weakness of this book to me is that it presents in it's story line every parent's fantasy about what potty training is and not the reality. In this book, the littly boy's parents buy him a child potty, and then the child teaches himself to use it through trial-and-error, and when the child gets it right he announced to his parents, who apparently have been reading the paper all this time, that he has succeeded in mastering the potty. A cute story, but not reality.
Also, like most potty books, the book doesn't get into the essential mechanics of managing bodily functions. You still have to train the child in those things yourself. Don't wait for you child to figure everything out and then announce to you that they've done it.
Book Review: Really helped
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the only book we bought about potty training for our little boy. He's now long since potty trained, at a relatively early age, and this book deserves some of the credit. First, it's very attractively written and illustrated; our little boy liked it and requested it frequently when we were going through potty training. Second, it actually seemed to help him think about what was going on in potty training. We had already started sitting him on the pot and asking if he needed to go, etc., before getting this book, and he was sort of at a progress plateau, but when we got this book, it did seem to make something click and I think he made more noticeable progress after that. A month or two after we got the book he was to the point where we could take off the diapers entirely (at home). He seemed to get a big kick out of "Bye-bye pee! Bye-bye poop!" As you can see, it speaks in honest terms about pee and poop but isn't unnecessarily scatalogical.Book Review: pleasant, but not all that helpful
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a cheery poem about a boy named Henry who is learning to use the toilet. He uses a separate potty seat rather than a toilet insert, and the book uses the terms pee and poop. There were a couple of things I didn't like about the book -- in one picture Henry is brushing his teeth and has toothpaste squirted all over and a bowl of oatmeal on his head! This is distracting. In another picture urine is in a big puddle on the floor when Henry's had an accident. In yet another, Henry's pants are wet after he had another accident. I guess I feel I can reassure our toddler if there are accidents; I'd like the book to stay on message and show a positive and successful experience. Also, as in most other books of this genre, there is little show-or-tell about the actual anatomy or mechanics. This book isn't terrible and our son likes it, I just don't think it has helped much.