Okay...

....does this scare anyone else?

DingDingDing!
DingDingDing!


Product Description: Make potty training fun, exciting and challenging for your little one with this interactive potty. The Jack Potty is a talking potty chair that features sensor technology to recognize your tot's successful potty training efforts. The sensor triggers the 'jackpot,' prompting a display of spinning shapes, lights and sounds as reinforcement and reward!

It's just so Vegas Baby, Vegas.  Personally, I don't think EVERYTHING geared towards kids needs to have obnoxious sounds and flashing lights, but maybe I'm just old-skool like that.

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prairieplains
Um, I would have to agree. But maybe I'm jaded because everything in my house has flashing lights and obnoxious repetitive rhyming songs bleating at all hours of the day and night.
Steve Betz
[this is bad] -- Holy crap (no pun intended) -- maybe there's a version that comes with booze and cigarettes for adults.
Anya's Mom
Terrible! Plus I think it would terrify most kids.
::flowers & thorns
I saw it on gizmodo a couple of days ago and I actually thought it was kind of cool.

But then again, I'm not a mum...
Margy
[this is good]
LOL! The kids would probably love it. You wouldn't be able to get them off the potty.
Random Musings
Ridiculous! Sorry but I am old school too
GM
Steve is onto something - I want the grown-up version! ;)
Enter the Greenhouse

And we wonder how the younger generations have become so "All About Me"?? It's obvious that we start them at an early age with products like this: do what comes naturally at age 2-4, and your life will be filled with bells and whistles. When did we start rewarding kids for the mundane? And if someone does something truly spectacular? What then?

I'm not just old skool, I'm also jaded!

Janette
I think toys for kids under 12 months tend to be all about lights and sounds (yes, annoying)...which eventually give way to less noisy toys that come with very small parts. Small parts that you step on in the middle of the night on the way to get a glass of water. But, I digress, potty's should NOT be of the same ilk as the under 12 month toys.
Janette
Now, that would be something....especially if they were available in public restrooms. Could you imagine the cacophony of jackpot noises in a crowded restroom?
Janette
I was thinking that it would too. Some kids might like it, but I could see just as many being traumatized by it. Plus. what happens one day when they graduate to the big toilet? Are they going to be disappointed because it doesn't light up and make obnoxious jackpot noises?
Janette
Just know that in the beginning of potty training your kid is going to the potty constantly. They're just learning to gain control and "save" up their pee, so you'd be hearing a lot of that ding!ding!ding!...on top of all the other toys they have that make noise.
Janette
I could see some kids liking it...to the point where they would put OTHER items in the potty to make it light up.
Mello
That's just weird.
Janette
I bet some parents will actually buy it though.
Janette
The grown-up version would have to dispense free cocktails, effuse the room with stale cig smoke, and best be used in the company of other slot-toilets. And of course, dispense a jackpot periodically :)
Janette
I'm totally with you. When I bought the basic Graco potty it came with reward stickers and I thought, hmmmm....isn't the reward that you don't soil yourself anymore? I mean, I know it's not always that simple and some kids need motivation. So, I'm not saying stickers are a bad idea. But, I do think part of potty training is reinforcing that this is something adults (and big kids) do...and last time I checked it wasn't on a noise-making, flashing toilet.
Janette
I am bit curious about it when I look at it. I mean, do you have the option to pull the handle and try for jackpot without going in the potty? But, I think it's strange to disguise a potty as a toy...and somehow not a good idea.
Enter the Greenhouse
And if the child is still able to become intrinsically motivated, despite all the bells and whistles, then let's try to get him or her addicted to gambling. YES! A dual purpose potty.
AngieK
Kind of unnecessary and might actually scare some kids off. Who comes up with this stuff?
Nacwolin
That's as bad as those credit card swipping toy cash registers they make now. Makes you wonder who is really making (or backing the making) of these little gems, eh?

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