Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Unknown EAN: 0092388040396 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: Consumervision Manufacturer: Consumervision Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Consumervision Region Code: 1 Release Date: 2004-06-08 Studio: Consumervision Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Rating: - Good but definitely for older kids
This is a well done production, however it's geared toward three-year olds. For example, it talks about being a big kid who does not sleep in a crib any more. My young two-year old is ready for training but still sleeps in a crib and I don't think she understood all the dialogue in this DVD. The songs are cute and the images of real boys and girls using the potty are appropriate. The narrator is "perky" but not obnoxious.
Rating: - This is a good aide.
The songs were very catchy. My daughter seemed to really like and respond to it. The reasoning and logic are very much geared towards older potty trainers. I would recommend this video for older children in the 3 to 4 year range.
Rating: - Excellent video!
My 2 1/2 year old watched this video several times and then showed an immediate interest in using the potty. It's an excellent way to build interest and awareness in potty-training.
Rating: - If there was a 10 Star Rating that's what I would give this
A wonderful way to introduce your post-toddler child to the potty. It's fun, it's on-message, it's informative, it makes potty training something our son is enthusiastic about doing.
The songs in particular are contagious. They're so catchy that they'll infect not only your child but you too. I find myself humming the tunes while feeding lunch etc. The reason this matters is because each song has a central message in the potty process. Kids get it!
The whole production is a lot of fun but it's also effective. What a combination! I wholeheartedly recommend this to anyone with a post-toddler child who just hasn't shown much interest yet in potty training. This video is a breakthrough waiting to happen. It was for us. Of course there are no guarantees. Your mileage may vary.
Rating: - "Potty Power" proved effective in training our 2.5 yr old!
I have never written a product review, but feel obligated to share with the other moms and dads out there how effective we found this DVD. We have a 2.5 year old who had shown all the signs of being potty-ready, as well as interest, but wouldn't use it consistently; she also refused to have a bowel movement anywhere but in her pull-ups. So in searching for some children's books to help her along, I saw the posting for "Potty Power" and figured I would give it a try...I actually thought it would be a waste of money and time, but am thrilled to report it wasn't...that she was actually "potty trained" within one day of watching the DVD. She watched "Potty Power" the evening the DVD arrived and that night didn't seem all that moved by it, however, the next morning she asked to watch it again...and after it was over immediately went to the potty; by that afternoon she made her first #2 on the potty ever! For the rest of the weekend she repeatedly asked to watch "Potty Power", insisted on underwear only...no diapers (except at night) and has consistently made her pee-pee and poop ON THE POTTY!
She is incredibly proud of herself and has gone 10 days now (to day care/preschool, shopping, restaurants, etc.) in panties and no pull-ups. She still asks to watch the DVD every day and often can be heard shouting "potty-power" afterwards and singing the catchy songs sung on the DVD. I have shared our experience with this DVD with all of our friends who have small children learning to potty and intend to give it as a gift to friends when their toddlers turn 2! To say we found it effective is an understatement...
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Ted Shelton: "Frankly I felt that BlogOn was a waste of time and money."
I think the BlogOn conference was overproduced. In the name of professionalism the organizing firm turned off potential speakers, oversubscribed sponsors, etc.
I would have liked a debatable topic (aside from *blogging = journalism*. Two people slugging it out. Or a devil's advocate taking challenges from the floor.
I would have liked more hard numbers. Facts. Charts. Diagrams. We have the analytic tools to BS-check them; harder on vague opinions and single-points-of-observation.
I found it disturbing how much money was being commanded (from both attendees and sponsors) for a conference at a university. Maybe it was because it was at Berkeley? Maybe we should have taken over a community college or a Cal State or a DeVry. The facilities costs would have been cheaper at least. I heard an organizer apologize and say the next one would be at a hotel, like that would have been better.
Cost wasn't the whole problem. We're at a stage where early adopters are meeting folks who want to leap the chasm. Huge gaps in knowledge, experience, context, culture, vocabulary. It's the gap.
There are huge ideas to be explored, even in the world of applying blogs to media strategy and the enterprise. And most of the big ideas weren't even on the agenda at BlogOn. Probably because it was catering to those who want to commercialize, fund, and otherwise exploit (excuse me, "get in on") the emerging medium.
Let's fork these conferences so advanced topics on business and technology and culture fit the participants.
- Good but definitely for older kids
- This is a good aide.
- Excellent video!