Fisher-Price Royal Stepstool Potty, Blue
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Baby Products Reviews of Fisher-Price Royal Stepstool Potty, Blue
Customer Review: FP Boys Potty - Removable splash guard a pain.
Summary: 1 Stars
I was lured into buying this potty by its pretty looks and the promise of the musical reward. Here are the list of problems we had with it.
1.) When the splash guard is attached my son plays with it, and won't keep it in the right position. Also there's really no way for a child to sit on the seat without the splash guard falling down, so someone needs to put it back up. It also seems kind of dangerous.
2.) The musical function is pretty much useless if you have a curious child who figures out that they can make the chime work by putting their hands in the potty and touching the contacts, and who wants their child to stick their fingers in the potty.
3.) The potty is difficult to clean. There are too many parts. Plus, there's no way my son could "help" without making a total mess.
4.)Also the seat cover for the stool gets dirty easily if your child steps on to it with shoes or dirty feet. The white plastic doesn't clean easily and there are deep crevices and holes on the top that need to be cleaned out with q-tips or a small brush.
Pros:
1.) It's pretty sturdy as a stool, but you need to detach the splash guard.
2.) It seems to be comfortable.
We got this seat when my son was 18 months old just for introduction to the potty. Now that he's 26 months old and clearly understands his body functions we are going to buy him either a Baby Bjorn or the FP one that looks like a frog. Fingers crossed.
Customer Review: Not a winner - design flaws galore, especially for boys
Summary: 2 Stars
It's cute and it seems like a good idea to have a 2 for 1 product, but the reality of it isn't as nice. Firstly, the music that's supposed to praise them comes on so randomly when no one's even sitting on it that it means nothing.
Now on to the bigger issues. The pee-pee reflector for boys folds down when you use it as a step stool. It comes off easily by accident, which isn't cute. And my son spends his whole time on the potty trying to keep it in the up position. Someone else said it pinches their kid and I can easily imagine that. It's sort of my number 1 complaint about the product.
The next big issue is the fact that there are a bunch of large grooves and holes in the top of the unit when it's used as a stepstool. They collect so much dirt and dust. My kid has never once gone potty in the unit yet, but the unit looks like it's been through a war because there are all these places to collect dirt. I don't know how I'm ever going to get the little divets clean to sell it when we give up. I guess I'll keep it as a stepstool since that's how we've used it for the last 6 months, but even as a stepstool it's problematic because when my son picks it up to move it, it falls apart. He got his hand stuck in it once and was crying hysterically for 10 seconds before we could even figure out why.
They need to go back to the drawing board on this one. I also have a couple of Baby Bjorn ones I got and they are so much easier to use and clean.
Customer Review: Great tool, a bit of room for improvement
Summary: 4 Stars
We've been potty-training for a while just using the potty seats that sit on the regular toilet, but wanted to give our son more control and a sense of ownership over the whole process. We got one of these potties last night, and absolutely love it - spent 45 minutes drinking water and going potty (I had to refuse more water and more potty time, it was past time for bath and bed!) He loves the music playing when he uses it, he gets so excited and has the biggest grin.
The room for improvement: first of all, the music plays when the "product" moves around when you go to dump it - reward for no work. I'd say once it's played once it needs to not play until being reset by being emptied. Second, we're having the same problem other people mentioned with the guard - far too easy for it to flip down when he sits down, and not big enough to stop anything if he leans back a little bit. He's old enough to understand pushing the guard up before he uses the potty, but it is one more thing to deal with. On the other hand, we spent 45 minutes going potty after him refusing to have much to do with any potty-training over the last couple weeks. On the whole, well worth the $20, I would definitely recommend this - I'm sure it would have varying levels of effectiveness (every kid is different) but has given us the jump-start we needed to get back on the potty.
Customer Review: Not for boys, especially not for the parents who have to clean up after them!
Summary: 1 Stars
We were very excited to buy this chair for our son because he loves music and we thought he would appreciate the musical "reward". While the music is fun and causes him to say "I did it" whenever it plays, the actual chair is terrible! The little "cup" that's supposed to keep the potty from going everywhere is too small and my son figured out how to remove it the first time he sat on the chair. The seat is too small, he has to sit all the way back on the chair to get the pee-pee in, which doesn't work out too well for poo-poo. He is unable to go by himself on this chair because, even though he knows to hold "it" down, the "hole" and cup are too small to catch it. It goes all over the place, it leaks UNDER the cup that's supposed to hold it in and, thus, all over the floor. It doesn't even work well as a step stool because it comes apart too easily. Also, I have had the same problem the other reviewer had of the chair music going off in the middle of the night. My son has also figured out how to make the music go off by putting his weight down both handles. The only reason we are still using this chair is he doesn't always like to go upstairs to go potty but I sometimes can't get the pee-pee to go where it should so BE CAREFUL!Customer Review: why is there not a zero star rating? Mother of 4 hates this potty chair
Summary: 1 Stars
Everything everyone says and then some. The stupid pee guard flips up and down. The both my boys want to play with it. It is loose and falls in the pee catcher all the time. They fold it down and pee on the floor. The opening is the wrong size for my 35 pound, size 2T son. His butt gets stuck to it all the time, then he stands up with the white toilet seat part stuck to his butt and it falls off and makes a mess. The pee cup has a front lift handle that makes it tip and spill when you take it out if there is much pee in it. The metal sensors in the bottom that make the music if child pees started to rust after the first week. The metal sensors line up with sensors under the potty. If the pee spills or child pees when the bowl is not in place then the sensor that makes it play a song shorts out. Mine lasted 3 days before it got pee spilled and shorted out. The stupid it turns into a stool idea means that son 1 pees and does not tell me, then son 2 needs a stool, so he goes in folds the lid shut and runs off down the hall with it full of pee making a mess all the way.
Buy this for someone you REALLY hate;)