WFMW: Backwards Day
Today is Backwards Day at Works-for-me Wednesday, where people ask for tips instead of offering them.
Well, I have a question.
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I was thinking about this the other day in the bathroom. I don’t mean to give too much information, it’s just that the bathroom is where I do all of my thinking because, well, it’s the only quiet place in the whole house.
Anyway, I was thinking that this was a great idea, the Backwards Day, but I couldn’t think of anything that I haven’t otherwise been able to find solutions for on the all-knowing internets.
Then it hit me. I mean really hit me. That smell that I cannot seem to keep out of my bathroom for more than 5 minutes. Pee. More specifically, little boy pee.
I don’t have a problem with how to clean it up and get the smell out. The problem is that the next time I come in, someone before me came in and peed again. It never ends!
Funny side story…The other day we bought pet mice and when I asked the pet store guy if there was a difference between the males and females, as far as having them for pets, he said, “Get the females. The boys pee all over everything.”
All I could do was laugh and say, “Yeah, tell me about it.”
So I ask, dear readers and fellow WFMWers, how on earth do you stop little boys from dribbling - and sometimes even full streaming - their pee all over the toilet?
I really need to know.
Then, of course, head on over to Shannon’s and help out some other desperate moms in need of advice.
1My name is Andrea
wrote on 3 October 2007 at 17:40
I have two boys who are now 10 and 12. It gets better with age, but there is no way to stop it completely. I found myself constantly reminding them to “watch where you pee” and even threatened tomake them sit down if they couldn’t aim properly. My solution is Clorox Bathroom Wipes. And make them clean it up!
2Kim
wrote on 3 October 2007 at 17:41
Depending on how old the boys are - you can make a game of aiming - keep a small container of cheerios next to the toilet - tell the boy to toss one in and aim to pee on/in it.
I have a 10yr old and have the same problem - but his problem is umm a lack of shaking and dripping on the lid as he closes it.
I am thinking if I start making it his job to wash around the toilet base every couple days, he may start taking better care.
Good luck.
3Jen
wrote on 4 October 2007 at 2:48
I was going to say the same thing about cheerios, but there are also lights you can buy that put a green target on the water, when the seat is up, and a red stop sign or something when the seat is down. (That is for boys who go in the night, & don’t turn on lights…)
4Alicia
wrote on 4 October 2007 at 6:38
Make them sit. Explain the difference between a toilet and a urinal. You have a toilet, not a urinal. I have four brothers and this was my parents’ rule. Our household has adopted the same. You will very rarely have to clean up pee again.