Parenting Under the Stars

This Potty Watch is not a bad idea to help potty train children but it still can’t take the place of a parent in my opinion. It flashes at different time intervals (30, 60 and 90 min.) and plays familiar songs to remind them it’s time to go.

There are special potty training inspired lyrics to go with the songs if you want to sing a long to help inspire your child. Here are the lyrics that go along with London Bridge:

Look at me, it’s potty time,
Potty time, potty time.
Look at me, it’s potty time,
Let’s go potty now.

The same tune works for tidying up, so why not. “Now it’s time to tidy up, tidy up, tidy up…..” That song really grated on my nerves after awhile, but maybe I’m a party pooper.

Sometimes it may get tiring to remind your child to try to go to the potty or you could forget yourself. A little reminder from the Potty Watch wouldn’t hurt occasionally but I can’t see it training your kid on its own. It may be a good reinforcement tool. You would probably end up reminding them to go to the potty every time the song came on, but suppose eventually they would connect it themselves.

• How would this work at a daycare? Would they all have to be on the same timers? It could become quite the zoo if there were 30 timers going off at different intervals playing different songs!

It’s gotten rave reviews from lots of people and it’s cute and is only ten dollars. I can’t help but think it would get a little annoying after a while but suppose it depends on how long the potty training process takes for your child. I wonder if it’s water proof.

“We found that our son simply was not interested in remembering to go on his own, so we found the Potty Watch, which he loved. You program this wrist watch to play songs and light up at 30-, 60-, or 90-minute intervals; then it resets itself and starts the countdown all over again,” said Heather Ledeboer to Parents.com.

Pamela Parkinson, CEO of Potty Time, Inc., points to this as another example of the great experience people have with the Potty Watch and their willingness to share that experience. The grassroots company has put a lot of effort into creating and developing a product that is both fun and useful.
“We have held the belief that a well-designed, fun product will do more in the current marketplace than most marketing campaigns,” said Parkinson. “When people love your product they talk about it for you. Having sold into 48 states on word-of-mouth advertising, we continue to rely on great product development that really serves parents and children.”SANDY, Utah, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire

If you’re still at the sleep training stage, Jackie at Nursing Your Kids gives us her take.