Once Upon a Potty 8" Plush Doll Set with Mini-Potty – BOY

I was using the book Potty Training in Less Than a Day, and needed a doll to potty. I was seriously considering buying one of the more expensive ones, figuring if it worked, it would be worth it. When it was time to buy, however, the price was more than I was willing to buy for a doll that would probably never be used again. After reading some reviews, I figured I would try this much more affordable doll that seemed just as effective. I also bought the book, Once Upon a Potty, that this doll Joshua is associated with and read it to him before we started training. I believe I gave it to him the day before and told him that he would be teaching Joshua how to use the potty the next day. He was excited and actually slept with him that night. It worked the way I needed it to... which was my son taught Joshua how to potty and pull up and down his pants (see note below). He was excited Joshua had a little potty, also, and wanted to give him stickers when he went pee pee in the potty. For the pee pee, I used a medicine dropper/syringe that I had pre-filled with water and when my son was distracted, I put some in Joshua's potty.The reason why I deducted a star was because Joshua only comes with a diaper. For use for potty training, I needed him to have big boy underwear. I would have paid an extra few dollars if he came with underwear, too. I am not a very creative person and I do not sew, but what I did was take an old ankle sock and cut it. Then I just put a few stitches in to make underwear. It was easy, only had to last the morning and fit perfectly.I will have to review the book, but my son (2 yrs, 8 mon), who was showing signs of being ready, was potty-trained within 24 hours and had his first accident at 6 weeks. If this doll contributed to that success, then I recommend it to anyone!

Very cute and anatomically correct to aid potty training. The only thing is it's smaller than I thought and a bit fragile and I'm not sure how it will hold up. Still I liked it enough to keep it and hopefully my grandson will benefit from it. He has the book so together it should work well.

Had the female version 25 years ago when we were training our daughter. Now when her son is old enough we're going to use this for him.

This doll was great for helping my son with potty training. It is anatomically correct which is needed when discussing his body and functions.

The doll is cheap looking and beware it actually has the right parts on the doll so I had to explain to my daughter because she wanted the boy doll.<I had no idea> but she liked having the doll sitting by her on its toilet while she going.

My daughter loves these two dolls. I got her both because they are anatomically correct (but not in a gross way). She loves them, I don't know if she has noticed the difference, and we haven't pointed it out, but I feel like not having them on dolls can make the parts "shameful".She likes that she can carry them both easily, also likes putting them on the potty. But the book is awkward and to me uses too many "code" words for my taste. I just call parts by their scientific terms.

This is super great to help my little boy potty on the potty. I love that the doll is anatomically correct. My 2 year old loves taking the diaper off and putting it back on! He also love the potty and using that as a hat on the doll. The book is good but we switch the words in it to use anatomically correct language when we read it to him. The reason I gave this a 4 star rating is because I did not love the quality of the fabric on the doll. Personally, I would pay a little more for organic or higher quality fabrics. All in all, this is a great tool to help your toddler on their potty learning journey.

I bought this doll for my grandson. He had been "caring" for a musical bear and I thought he needed something more human. Since he will be potty training in the next few months, I thought this would do double duty. It is much smaller than I had thought (the size in the description is accurate, I'm just not a good judge) and is kind of funny looking. This isn't where the laugh came from. As the description states, the doll is anatomically correct. It's a soft doll, so his "parts" are not molded, rather, I guess you'd call it, shaped. It is interesting how they did it. My daughter-in-law was here when it arrived. She is not the mother of my grandson. We had the best laugh when we did the big reveal. I took it the next day when I went to stay with my grandson. He immediately recognized that the doll had a potty and proceeded to take it to the bathroom where his potty was. Whenever he'd have the doll, we'd ask him if the baby needed to potty and he'd take it back into the bathroom. I think it just might help with potty training, even though you can't make it wet.