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Friday, October 10, 2008

Once Upon a Potty Review

Once Upon a Potty by Alona Frankel (the boy version) was an instrumental book in potty training our older son (OS). He was fascinated by the story. In fact, when we bought him an anatomically correct boy doll to "potty train" we even named it Joshua after the main character in the book. For a while after OS was potty trained, we continued to read the book.

One of my friends swears that the reason her daughter was potty trained was because she listened to the Potty Song on the Once Upon a Potty CD. It was like it clicked for her. Or perhaps, it was just the timing, but either way the song made it fun.

Because of that, I was interested when The Parent Bloggers Network was looking for people to review the book and CD. This is the actually the 25th anniversary edition. It was first written for the author's son and apparently he produced the CD. The book was even better than the copy we already have. Why? Because it's a board book. Still not getting it? This book spent quite a lot of the time in the bathroom with OS so I liked the idea that with our Younger Son (YS) that we can wipe down the book if need be. Gross, but a reality of parenting. Plus I just think board books are better for little hands anyway because you don't have to worry about ripped pages or paper cuts.

YS did enjoy listening to the CD. It was fun for him to read the story out loud and he did flip through the book while listening to it. He's only two though so he wasn't necessarly looking at the pages in order! He also did enjoy the song.

Once Upon a Potty is available in a boy version with the main character being named Joshua and a girl version where the main character is named Prudence. The book is also written so that parents can substitute the words for #1 and #2 as well as private parts.

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