american toilets

[SonyaD]

We just told ds and niece both 4 at our recent trip that they were magic like everything else at Disney They were thrilled with the magic toilets!

 

[k_k_100]

When potty training dd(3) I told her about them before we went into the stall - I told her they were "princess potties" After all - a princess shouldn't have to flush her own toilet!

 

[lucy_love_]

thanks for all the brilliant replies.

i would never have though of post it notes and princess toilets. very good.

shes going to want to go to the loo instead of avoiding them.

ill let you know how we get one

thanks again

love

lucy

 

[diddldonna]

Funny thing was i was thinking about ways to get my daughter to the toilet this trip without the panic. She just doesn't like them, she flys in and out of the toilet as quick as possible and really freaks if she can't get out quick enough. Shes 7 years old and i thought she was they only child who felt like this.

Thanks for bringing this subject up.

Donna

 

[buzzgirls&dad]

My DD now 6 was a little scared as well a few years ago. But, as other posters have said we called them Magic Potties. We are bringing DM on our Dec. trip and the two were on the phone and I caught the tail end of the conversation when DD said Disney even has Magic Potties. Now she see how Disney can make fun out of the most mundane.

 

[lucy_love_]

this really is some good advise.

diddldonna i too thought i had the only child scared of the toilet.

love

lucy

 

[Straughn]

Kids always amaze me as to the connections they will make. Our 7 yr old granddaughter is terrified of the auto flush toilets-will not use them. We can't even use the post-it note trick because if she doesn't see a handle, she runs out immediately. She has not been to Disney yet, so we haven't had to confront the issue there. The only solution her mother has found is to use the handicapped stall because most of those are not auto-flush.

Last summer, the 7-year old was on our boat with her family. She went to use the bathroom and wasn't in there 20 seconds when she came out and said "I don't have to go." None of us thought too much about it until her older sister went down and came back and said she couldn't figure out how to flush the toliet. Her little sister said - "it is one of those awful, horrible automatic toliets and I won't use it." The toilet flushes by using a foot pedal at the base of the toilet. Because the younger granddoughter didn't see a regular toilet handle to use, she assumed it was an auto-flush and WAS NOT going to use it. Once I showd both of them how it worked, they thought it was great to flush the toilet with their foot.

 

[SueM in MN]

Kids always amaze me as to the connections they will make. Our 7 yr old granddaughter is terrified of the auto flush toilets-will not use them. We can't even use the post-it note trick because if she doesn't see a handle, she runs out immediately. She has not been to Disney yet, so we haven't had to confront the issue there. The only solution her mother has found is to use the handicapped stall because most of those are not auto-flush.

Actually, I have seen people post before that they use the handicapped stalls because most of them are not auto-flush, but that is not true.

The handicapped stalls almost always have whatever the rest of the stalls in that restroom have.
In our situation, DD can't sit very securely on the toilet and she makes a lot of small movements. Each time that happens, the toilet flushes. Our personal record is 12 flushes in one "sitting" and we never get finished without at least one flush while she is still sitting, so I can tell you for sure that they do have the autoflush toilets in the handicapped stalls.

 

[PrincessLindy]

Learned this trick after a few go arounds trying to get the seat cover in position and as soon as I turned to sit it would flush right down

We just had this problem at Wal-Mart. I had to laugh because she is no longer afraid of them but she was getting very upset at the toliet. I could hear her getting the cover on just right. She would turn around to set down and....whhoooosh! She did this about four times until I told her to try a dfferent one. She went next door and it was fine. I guess maybe the first one was set wrong! Her little six year old bodies do seem to set them off more often.

 

[momsgoofy]

I think we should draw the line at having a hydraulic pole coming out and wiping for you!

 

[SqueakyMouse]

every time my 4 year old goes into a public toilet-- she askes me "are these like disneys"--

you should see the relieved look on her face when i say no--- we have to flush these ourselves---

our last trip was 11 months agao-- and the question still comes up--
i guess she has "disney toilet trauma"

Thankfully, I think WDW is the only place in the world with the "turbo-flush" toilets!!!