Sesame Street - Elmo's Potty Time
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Artist: Sesame StreetBrand: Sesame Street
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 45 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-22
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sesame Street
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- Always educational and entertaining, the loveable puppets of SESAME STREET help preschoolers learn how to use the potty in this fun-filled musical episode. Favorite characters like Elmo, Baby Bear, and Grover steer kids toward healthy bathroom habits in an imaginative program of songs, games, and skits designed to ease children's potty-time anxieties and fears. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:&nb
DVD Reviews of Sesame Street - Elmo's Potty Time
DVD Review: I'll be kind and call it mediocre
Summary: 3 Stars
We bought this video at the tale end of our potty training experience. My son had been "almost potty trained" for months and months and we were down to crunch time - 4 weeks to get him seriously trained so he could start preschool. I thought this video would be the push he needed.
I think this video bored him. He watched it for maybe 10 minutes and then went outside to play in his sandbox.
I was hoping for something of an "Elmo's World" format... I really don't know what Elmo's World does potty time would be like, but that's what I was hoping for. This is NOT Elmo's World, even though it has Elmo.
This video has a lot of filler that IMO tends to become boring after a while and not have any impact on encouraging your kid to use the potty. A segment on how toilet paper is made, a segment where various bathroom fixtures turn on and off on their own... etc. Stuff that is kind of entertaining but not useful. I think it would be better to focus just on using the potty here, maybe show more puppets going as someone suggested.
Two things I really didn't like about this video were the "dirty diaper blues" segment where they show a bunch of kids running around in diapers and then looking unhappy, presumably because they are wet... then at the end, one girl actually runs inside the house to use the toilet. Every single kid is in disposable diapers. As a cloth diapering mom, I would like to have seen at least a nod towards cloth diapering.
The other thing I didn't like was when they had kids giving other words for "pee" or "poop"... one boy says "I call it DOOKIE!" with a big grin. Maybe I am just getting OLD (I am 29) but I do NOT think children should be using the word dookie and I can't imagine anyone using that to toilet train. Dookie is a word that I first heard in 5th grade and it was one of those words that isn't exactly a swear word but still gets a rise out of adults. I mean, I don't think Green Day named their album "Dookie" because it is a family-friendly word. Anyway, I guess I am an adult now because it sure got a rise out of me. Yeah, yeah, I know our kids can and will hear words we don't want them to hear - I'll even confess my son picked up at least one choice word from me - but I like to think of Sesame Street as being a "place" we don't have to worry about our kids hearing such things. Just my opinion.
One thing I did like about this video was when the baby bear (not Baby Bear but Baby Bear's baby sister Curly- yeah, I can't figure that logic out either) goes and hides under a table because she had to poop and Gina came along and convinced Curly it was OK to come inside and use the potty. This was a favorite caper of my son's for some time... he would go outside and stand behind the bushes or in a certain spot of the yard and we KNEW it was because he had to poop. FRUSTRATING!!! I liked seeing a video give a nod to this quirk - none of the others we have seen did this.
All in all, I can't say I reccomend this video. It was mildly entertaining (oddly enough now that my son is trained he watches is over and over, go figure) and mildly informative/encouraging, but I don't think it has any merits over any other videos we have seen - chances are you can get a few from your local library, which is what we did before buying this.
If this video has any merit at all, I think it may be in getting a younger child interesting in the process - not getting an almost-trained child to wrap things up. My son is 2y10m... maybe at 2 this would have been more useful but I really don't know. Turns out what we needed to do was lay down the law and say no more diapers and after 3 days with a few accidents, he was trained. Your milage may very.
Description of Sesame Street - Elmo's Potty Time
Potty training can be fun! Create a positive potty time experience for your child with Elmo, Baby Bear, Grover, and other Sesame Street friends with Elmo's Potty Time! This amusing and song-filled DVD teaches children that everyone - mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and even monsters-has to learn how to use the potty. Your child will learn that accidents are okay and that it takes time and practice before he can use the potty on his own. So dance, sing, and laugh as your child learns confidence-building skills and helpful healthy habits that will last a lifetime.
- Product Measures: 0.7 x 5.4 x 7.5 IN
- Recommended Ages: 12 months & up
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