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Going to the Potty (Mr. Rogers) Paperback – Picture Book, September 22, 1997

by Fred Rogers (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 712 ratings
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"Going to the Potty handles a sensitive subject with the same quiet candor and respect for young audiences that are the hallmark of his Mister Rogers' Neighborhood TV show."--Publishers Weekly

Parent and child may read together about the way children develop in the experience of eliminating waste products from their body and about the positive aspects of using the toilet.
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    First Experiences
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    32 pages
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    English
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    8 x 0.14 x 8 inches
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    Puffin Books
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    September 22, 1997
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    0698115759
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Producer, magician, writer, puppeteer, minister, husband, father, Fred Rogers started out in children's television thirty years ago. The direction he trailblazed was the "creation of television programming that spoke, with respect, to the concerns of early childhood, not as adults see it but as children feel it."

He has received virtually every major award in the television industry for work in his field, and dozens of others from special-interest groups.

Fred Rogers lives in Pennsylvania.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Puffin Books; Reprint edition (September 22, 1997)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 32 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0698115759
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0698115750
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 1 - 3 years, from customers
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 0.14 x 8 inches
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Producer, magician, writer, puppeteer, minister, husband, father, Fred Rogers started out in children's television thirty years ago. The direction he trailblazed was the "creation of television programming that spoke, with respect, to the concerns of early childhood, not as adults see it but as children feel it." He has received virtually every major award in the television industry for work in his field, and dozens of others from special-interest groups. Fred Rogers lived in Pennsylvania.

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The overall book is dated you can tell by the cover in the pictures throughout, but it’s really hard to find real life books when it comes to using the potty, Lovevery subscription box has books throughout that are depicted with real life children and I feel like my kids resonate better with that so I started out my hunt for similar books that focused around potty training. I don’t necessarily agree in this book about boys needing to stand to pee since I personally have been training for him to sit, but of course to each their own. Overall, it’s gets the conversation going, and my son to understand basic concepts of how going to the bathroom works. We keep his potty books in a basket for him to read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful
Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2023
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This is a really good potty book. My boys love Mr. Rogers and are so excited that his face is in a tiny picture on the front cover, so that’s a plus right off the bat! My 3.5 boy has been potty trained for a long time, and even he likes to read this book and talk about it and how he learned. My 2 boy is not remotely ready (amazing how different they can be!) but this is his go-to book every time we sit down to read and he loves to talk about the pictures. I trust that when he’s ready, this book will help lay a good foundation. It is outdated as far as the pictures go. I changed the language from “urinate” and “make bowel movements” to “pee” and “poop” because that’s what we call them in our house (in the forward, Mr. Rogers suggests changing the language to fit your home, so I just pencilled them in so that anyone who is reading the book to the boys reads it the same way.) I also changed just two other things: (1) I am teaching the boys to sit while they pee first, and then stand as they develop the motor skills, so I changed the page about boys standing when they pee to “boys and men can sit or stand when they pee” and (2) the page about how this is a way you can please your mom and dad. I don’t want potty training to be about pleasing us, so I snagged a common phrase from Mr. Rogers’s TV show and changed the language to “a way you can know that you are growing.” It works well for us and I hope it is in the spirit of Mr. Rogers’s General way of communicating with children. Either way, I’m not exaggerating to say my boys LOVE this book!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Mr. Rogers Knows Just What to Say!
Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2015
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This is a great book for beginning and intermediate potty trainers. I loved Mr. Rogers as a kid and as a parent I still do, thanks to his tactful economy with words in this book. He says just enough to give kids the facts about potty training but not too much to gross parents out or scare kids away from toilet learning. This book a simply written, informative, and encouraging.

All children love to look at other children and my daughter responds to photographs so much better than illustration. This book shows real children sitting on the toilet or on little potties with their parents supporting them by their sides, and also alone.

This is great to read just before beginning potty training to help your child learn why he or she must learn to use the toilet, and also while the child is on the potty (since its a little longer than many first potty books and might help your child stay sitting). This book illustrates the use of both cloth and disposable diapers and tells kids that changing diapers is one of the ways parents show love. I am so glad that is mentioned, because a lot of kids definitely take it for granted. Kids of both sexes and of various ethnicities are shown in both panties and training pants, using all sorts of different potties, and in different situations.

A great book for parents and kids. A huge hit with my family.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Still the G.O.A.T.
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2024
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Been through several potty training children’s books for kids lately and Fred’s remains the single one that respects children’s intelligence and appreciates their anxieties. There are some truly baffling things I’ve seen in these other books and this one levels with kids and even avoids goo goo ga ga terminology.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Potty book
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2024
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This is a cute, informative book. It's always good to have these kinds of books.
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Julia B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Works for us
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2022
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First, This was published before I was born so you know the photos are outdated. I was using it as a introductory book for my son and it works great.
My son loves real photos of babies. It first talks about diapers which has been great for us right now.
Especially great as my son is in a phase where he doesn’t like having his diaper changed and when I show him the page with the baby getting his diaper changed, he then wants to get a new diaper.

It first goes through other things toddlers learn to do as they get older like eating and playing. I do skip parts or change words as it applies to what I want to teach my son (I don’t want to teach my son to stand while he urinates just yet), but that could be the case in other books too.
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CovidisAHoax
5.0 out of 5 stars So sweet
Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2024
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True to Mr. Rogers' style, the way he speaks to the child is direct and caring. This is a very unique potty training book in the fact that it deals mostly with the child's emotional state around this large life transition. I highly recommend it if you have a toddler who is nervous or unwilling to use the toilet.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Kid Not Interested
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2024
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As an adult I appreciate the accurate language and images. That being said, it’s an old school book (I loved Mr Roger’s growing up) but the pictures and the wording isn't very “fun” for my toddler. I don’t need every book to say “potty” and “poo” but let’s be real, my 2 year old isn’t going to be saying “bowel movement” when he tells me he has to poop.
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Micah McDowell
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2023
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It’s Mr. Rogers, who could explain it better?
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Teacher
4.0 out of 5 stars Great for the pictures
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 7, 2024
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I wanted a book with photos instead of cartoon drawings for my twin girls to get them familiar with the idea of the potty. They are 15 months and enjoy looking at the pictures. I don’t read the text as is as it’s quite odd. No-one I know calls doing a poo ‘making a BM’! And at the end it does a lot of messaging around ‘if you go to the toilet your parents will be happy’ which I don’t think is the healthiest of ideas. But the pictures, even though old fashioned, are great and my twins enjoy choosing the book from the shelf and looking through it
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Tara Anderson
5.0 out of 5 stars This potty book engaged us and helped.
Reviewed in Canada on December 13, 2016
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Old fashioned yes it is but it really helped get us going. Fred Rodgers rock still.
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Ahmed
1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed! It’s like a Magazine for older kids
Reviewed in Germany on December 21, 2021
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Bought it cuze of recommendations but personally it’s a huge disappointment.

Love the real pictures that connects to real life.

Was expecting a story line or something but nothing that my 2 year old was interested in except pictures, so I had to describe and talk about the pictures only!

Wouldn’t have bought it if I knew it before
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