Playtex Diaper Genie System 2

I thought everyone on Earth had a diaper genie, or had at least heard of them! I certainly never imagined that a mom with two kids in diapers, who uses disposables, wouldn’t have a diaper genie. I was wrong! (Hi Jen!)

These things are in all the magazines, all over the t.v. news shows whenever they cover “nursery necessities”, and I thought were pretty much ubiquitous. Learn something new every day.

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Fisher Price Fun To Learn Potty

I’m having trouble writing this entry because I keep re-reading the name of the product and thinking, “I should have known better.”

Fun To Learn Potty was just too good to be true.

My search led me down the aisles of many stores, searching for the perfect potty chair. The one that, when I brought it home, my girls would be mesmerized by. They would not be able to resist the lure of pottying in that magical mini-commode.

When I took the potty chair out of the package, the initial saucer-shaped eyes were a positive sign, but would they actually, you know, pee in it?

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Mommy and Me Potty Time Potty Training System with DVD

I’ve been having a devil of a time potty training my kids. I have the potty chair, panties, and a bunch of scrubbed patches on the floor.

I was looking for something beyond “put them on a potty chair every hour on the hour” and “reward them when they do well” – it’s difficult to reward them when they’ve not once successfully gone in the potty chair, and this promised reward just seems to lurk beyond their reach.

It’s really sad.

So when I saw the Mommy and Me Potty Time Potty Training System with DVD, I thought it would be worth a shot.

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