Play in the Potty - Literally

Yes, that's a toilet. Yes, that's a slide. Yes, children are wearing pooh hats on their heads. And, yes, they're playing their way through the potty - literally. 

Source: Getty Images: The Asahi Shimbun

The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, Japan is helping kids play their way through the potty and we love it! The 5-meter-tall toilet slide is designed help children better understand what happens to #1 & #2 when it disappears down the loo! Brilliant!

The exhibit focuses on how the toilet has changed our daily lives and helps visitors understand what the most environmentally-friendly and ideal toilet is. Additionally, it helps children and adults both understand the need to access for all to clean water and toilets and explores the topic of what would happen to humans if we didn't have toilets. What do you think would happen?

Can't make it to Tokyo before October 15th when the exhibit closes? No big deal. This video takes you and your little stinker inside the exhibit!

While you may not have the ability to make a giant toilet slide for your kiddo to play through, check out these 19 Brilliant Hacks that may take you from potty training to rocking the potty through play!! If nothing else, you'll laugh.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2713308/Flushed-success-Toilet-exhibition-celebrates-history-human-waste-questions-tackle-future.html#ixzz39jwUPVat

The Do - Episode 1: The Potty Watch

Time is precious, and when your little one's got to go, that clock doesn't stop ticking. But what happens when your little stinker doesn't care about nature's timing? What if she's content to play right through #1 leaving you with too many wet clothes and accidents on your hands. A brilliant way to help him help notice when it's time to go (and have fun in the process) is to let him make and rock a Potty Watch. Even better? It's totally free. This is a DIY project that doesn't cost you a cent, but allows you to bank laughter and fun!

In her debut crafting episode, 8-year-old Penelope is here to show kids how to make The Potty Rocker's watch. You know you've been wondering what to do with all those toilet paper rolls lying around the house. Watch this crafting tutorial HERE and get excited!!

Wanna take this wholesome goodness up a notch by giving? Cool, we love that. Share this link with your neighborhood childcare center when you donate your empty toilet paper rolls to them. They'll be thanking you for the comic relief and the wonderful activity.

Have a little one who's already rocking the potty like a champ? That's cool - even the oldest potty rockers dig The Potty Watch these days. Craft it up. Snap your pics and share them with us on Instagram and Facebook. Just include #thepottyrocker so we can find you!

While Penelope rocks this Potty Watch crafting episode, rest assured that you'll even learn some potty training lessons while you're at it!

Carpe Diem,
Nicole & Lydia

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The Let's Potty Game

If you've ever spent time around children there's a good chance that when you put the two words POTTY and TRAINING together your blood pressure starts to rise. Potty training: It stinks. We know. That's why we're set on helping families ROCK their way to the potty with joy and laughter and PLAY. That's also why we were thrilled upon finding the Let's Potty game that invites families to take part in a "FUN-filled journey to aid in the potty training process!" Yay for play!

A Gold Mom's Choice Award winner, the Let's Play game rolls out some laughter centered around that stinky room in your house...really, you have your guide, ROLLY - the toilet tissue roll, to lead you through the game. Look, even the Potty Rocker rocked his way through the board!

We love the way the Let's Potty game invites families to sit down and play together. It's easy to forget that we have to both USE bathroom language and MODEL bathroom etiquette for our kiddos to really get it. Let's face it, we take it for granted that we've been rockin' the potty for decades. Our little stinkers have only ever known the free release of diapers, so we have to be patient and play our way through this poopie time.

Using the Let's Potty game gives grown-up Potty Rockers the language kiddos need to hear. As you and your future Potty Rocker draw potty cards and move through the house (aka, the board game), your child will giggle at the comments like, "Uh-oh! Your pants look droopy. Next time use the potty to make a poopie!" Even better though, when it happens in real life - because, yes, accidents happen - you can reference the Let's Potty game and remind your little stinker that his aim is for the potty, not droopy drawers.

The game provides a way to celebrate your kiddo and his up-and-coming bathroom domination. Let's Potty gives you a chance to cut loose and tap into your inner child too. Instead of stressing through this stinky parenting time, play your way through it with laughter and make memories with your child(ren). When you're less stressed, they're less stressed. When you're playing more, they're playing more. And we all know laughter is contagious.

Like Let's Potty says, make this a "fun-filled journey" because each day you rock your way to the potty with your little one they learn how to rock their way through life with family, laughter, joy and love!

Let's Potty!!
Nicole & Lydia

Poopology--Marine Edition

Happy Friday, Potty Rockers! Get schooled this weekend and learn all about that mysterious poop on the southeastern shores. Everyone can use another piece of random trivia, so enjoy and top those ice cream sundaes with some chocolate sprinkles. We bet you'll never look at them the same after watching this!


Rock out,

Lydia & Nicole

Potty Rock Your Way Through the Dog Days of Summer

Background Music: Feel free to jam to Florence & The Machine's Dog Days of Summer HERE while rockin' to this post. 

The Dog Days of Summer refer to the hottest part of the summer (July 3rd through August 11th). You know those days when stepping into your hot car is likened to sitting on the sun's surface? Yep, that's a dog day. And it stinks. When you have a little kiddo teetering between diapers and drawers or potties and pull-ups, any day might feel like a Dog Day. Have no fear, The Potty Rocker is here to show you some cool ways to play your way to the potty and avoid the heat of frustration.

Here are five refreshing tips to get you cooled off during those Dog Days of getting your little stinker to ditch the diapers!

• Ice, Ice Baby! Your kiddo avoiding the potty? Try adding food coloring to some ice cubes and have an ice cube toss into the porcelain ring. Time how long it takes the ice cubes to melt. The winning ice cube is the one to last the longest. Cool, right? Ice cold!
• You're Getting Cooler! Play the good ole' "hot/cold" game and get sneaky! Make toilet paper, or a new pair of your toddler's drawers, the item to be found and hide it behind the potty. Let your little stinker get "hotter" as she weaves her way through the house into the coolest room of all! Laugh your way to that latrine!
• Heat Wave? A linoleum floor, toilet seat, or even bathtub floor are actually some of the coolest places to sit. Play a game of hide and seek and feel your temperature come down while taking a deep breath in the bathroom. And let's be honest, playing hide-and-seek as an adult brings back some hilarious memories of playing as a kid. Remember when you'd get so excited to avoid being found while playing hide-and-seek that you almost peed your pants? Now if this feeling sets in, you're holed up in the right room!
• ICEBERG!!!!! If you're in a ship, avoid the iceberg, but if you're trying to get your little guy to go in the pot, then "hit the iceberg" is his game. Drop in a few cubes (clear cubes are great...your kiddo will have to pay more attention to the ice cubes if they're transparent) and play your way through drowning those icebergs.
• The Naked Truth. There's really no point in layering on clothes when it's hot! Avoid frustrating yourself with zippers and buttons and belts (oh my!) when you can let your little one run around with easy-to-discard clothes on the way to the potty.

Shout out to the Dollar Shave Club for making bathroom's better too!

As it turns out, when you get fired up and heated over the stress of potty training, you're actually barking up the wrong tree. Your kiddo needs you to be cool as a cucumber so she can be too!

A Potty Rocker Wanna-Be

Which of the two above went #1 on the beach? If your guess is the furball on the left who's trying to be a potty rocker imposter, you're right. He tries, he really does, but even at the ripe ole age of five he still regresses. He's a potty rocker wanna-be and we're actually okay with that.

Here's why:

There's an excellent chance you know a little stinker who's a Potty Rocker Wanna-Be too. Sure, they want to ditch the nightly pull-ups, but the ease of letting go when you gotta go is just too enticing. As parents, you shrill with excitement at the words, "Mom, I have to go potty" when you're starting to ditch those diapers. Your kiddo has enlisted himself in the Potty Rocker Wanna-Be stage and that's something smile about.

As time goes by, the, "Daddy, I have go potty" phrases might get tiring. I mean, let's say you're one of the "People with Kids at the Beach" and you FINALLY, FINALLY just made it down to the sand with your, "boogie boards, kick boards, buckets, shovels, rakes, plastic things shaped like stars and turtles, coolers, chairs, towels, eight varieties of sunscreen, umbrellas, and a giant blanket" (for starters). You're getting as settled in as your gonna be and you're little stinker (who assured you he didn't need to rock the potty right before leaving the house) needs to go. Have no fear, the ocean is here.

Your kid can be a Potty Rocker all day long with those waves providing a gigantic potty from Mother Earth. Potty Rocker Wanna-Be's can step into full Potty Rocker status and you don't have to make a mad-dash back to the house. While we'll be the first to admit that peeing in the pool is a #1 No-No (I mean, we even have a PSA by The Potty Rocker himself about it), science actually shows its A-OKAY to let your little stinker use the ocean as his potty. The beach may just be the perfect place for Potty Rocker Wanna-Be's to make the transition to full blown Potty Rockers. They don't even need the imposter outfit, they can own it like the awesome rocker's they really are!

As this summer winds down, simply enjoy the potty beach!

kick boards, noodles, buckets, shovels, rakes, plastic things shaped like stars and turtles, coolers, chairs, towels (enough for way more than the amount of people with them) 8 varieties of sunscreen, (baby sunscreen, face sunscreen, sunscreen in the form of a stick, spray, cream, sweat proof, water proof, keep you looking like Casper guaranteed), umbrellas, and a big giant blanket - See more at: http://www.scarymommy.com/people-with-without-kids-at-the-beach/#sthash.Kd1gifv0.dpuf

boogie boards, kick boards, noodles, buckets, shovels, rakes, plastic things shaped like stars and turtles, coolers, chairs, towels (enough for way more than the amount of people with them) 8 varieties of sunscreen, (baby sunscreen, face sunscreen, sunscreen in the form of a stick, spray, cream, sweat proof, water proof, keep you looking like Casper guaranteed), umbrellas, and a big giant blanket. - See more at: http://www.scarymommy.com/people-with-without-kids-at-the-beach/#sthash.Kd1gifv0.dpuf

boogie boards, kick boards, noodles, buckets, shovels, rakes, plastic things shaped like stars and turtles, coolers, chairs, towels (enough for way more than the amount of people with them) 8 varieties of sunscreen, (baby sunscreen, face sunscreen, sunscreen in the form of a stick, spray, cream, sweat proof, water proof, keep you looking like Casper guaranteed), umbrellas, and a big giant blanket. - See more at: http://www.scarymommy.com/people-with-without-kids-at-the-beach/#sthash.Kd1gifv0.dpuf

People with kids have two tons of crap with them. No really. They have boogie boards, kick boards, noodles, buckets, shovels, rakes, plastic things shaped like stars and turtles, coolers, chairs, towels (enough for way more than the amount of people with them) 8 varieties of sunscreen, (baby sunscreen, face sunscreen, sunscreen in the form of a stick, spray, cream, sweat proof, water proof, keep you looking like Casper guaranteed), umbrellas, and a big giant blanket. - See more at: http://www.scarymommy.com/people-with-without-kids-at-the-beach/#sthash.Kd1gifv0.dpuf

People with kids have two tons of crap with them. No really. They have boogie boards, kick boards, noodles, buckets, shovels, rakes, plastic things shaped like stars and turtles, coolers, chairs, towels (enough for way more than the amount of people with them) 8 varieties of sunscreen, (baby sunscreen, face sunscreen, sunscreen in the form of a stick, spray, cream, sweat proof, water proof, keep you looking like Casper guaranteed), umbrellas, and a big giant blanket. - See more at: http://www.scarymommy.com/people-with-without-kids-at-the-beach/#sthash.Kd1gifv0.dpuf

Potty Rocker Anatomy 104

The Potty Rocker has MAD love for the potty; he also has a heart of gold. While he's straight-up born in the U.S.A., he lives to celebrate potty rocking around the world. This potty dude has never heard a flush he didn't like. His heart goes out to future Potty Rockers, those in the thick of it, and all those Potty Rocker pros become his heroes. He might not say much, but let his actions speak louder than words. He's full of giving in some special ways. He loves building toilet paper cars in schools and playing his way through legos with children in hospitals. He has a heart for making people laugh and he lives to grow joy in families. The Potty Rocker's heart-felt wish is that people uncover laughter and grow happiness during typically "stinky" times in life. He wants to transform the way we dread the tough and rock through it with family fun!

And that tinkle trail you see that follows him around? It's PURE magic! Finding a little sprinkle on the seat is less than wonderful, but a twinkle from the tinkle trail leaves kids a message. When you see that tinkle trail following The Potty Rocker you know he's up to important work. Coming soon, you'll have the ability to bring The Potty Rocker's tinkle trail into your home to inspire your little stinker. He'll know The Potty Rocker was celebrating there when he finds the tinkle trail on the seat that used to house the sprinkle. Have no fear, the tinkle trail is (almost) here!

Just can't hold it for The Potty Rocker's custom tinkle trail? That's okay. Play your way to the potty by making your own "tinkle trail." Put on that five-year-old thinking cap of yours and drum-up a great story for your little stinker to hear when they find a magical tinkle trail on their potty. It's all about the magic of play and The Potty Rocker's tinkle trail is full of it!

*If you missed The Potty Rocker Anatomy 101, 102, or 103, don't worry! You can still get schooled in the most awesome way. Just click on those numbers about to revisit our cliff notes.