An unusual Potty Question

[kinggartk]

My 5 year old is afraid of toilets that have the red eye sensor for flushing...you know, the Hands Free Flush.... Are the Potty's at Disney this type of Flushers?

 

[maxiesmom]

The majority are. However, just bring along a pack of sticky notes. Place one over the eye of the flusher, and you are all set. No noise until you peel of the note and flush.

 

[cinder-ellah]

Most of the toilets are the "eye" flushers.

Great tip on the sticky notes.

At times we've forgetten the sticky notes, and have put our hand over the sensor.

We've had little ones with that fear also and this has really helped in our family.

 

[LockShockBarrel]

I think you can also just hang a sheet of TP over the sensor too. I have to say while I'm not scared of the autoflush, the toilets in the OKW villas, those things are power flushers and the first time I flushed one it startled me.

 

[Melissalovespugs]

My 5 year old daughter is afraid of the auto flush toilets too. We just got back from Disney World, we were there 5/4-5/9. We had to deal with a few potty fits. I forgot to bring post it notes so I put my hand over the sensor. 2 times it flushed on it's own, even with a hand blocking it.

It was tough because she would tense up every time other people's toilets would flush. One thing that helped was taking her into the companion restrooms, which is often times just one bathroom with a locked door, no stalls. She relaxed a little more if she didn't hear the other toilets in other stalls. (I never took her in these, I just always took her with me into the ladies restroom, but my husband took her to the companion restrooms since he couldn't take her in the men's restroom. He had better luck getting her to do her business in a calm & timely fashion.)

 

[LockShockBarrel]

But the thing to remember about the companion bathrooms is that this are regularly used by people with handicaps or disabilites and do not free up as fast as stalls in the regular bathrooms. Little kid=little bladder, you may not have time to wait.