Reading on Toilet?

[LBelle]

Hmmm.....I think we're up to Volume 37 or something of the oh so famous 'Uncle John's Bathroom Reader'!!!! One of the best book series out there!!! So informative!! I place them in all 3 bathrooms.....kids (and DH) can multi-task...may as well get some learnin' going on at the same time!!!!

 

[mericletwins]

Well, I'm the op, seems I'm outnumbered! Most people consider it "normal" to read while on the pot!



My kids are also developing the habit, but taking it high-tech. Instead of reading matter they take their nintendos and laptops in there.

Maybe you can lay down the law with the kids and say no electronics, reading material only. Either they'll get off the pot in a more timely manner or they'll actually read! As a teacher, I think reading anywhere or anytime is a great thing!

 

[mericletwins]

My DD6 wont poop with her shoes on...dont know why.

My youngest son has to strip his pants and boxers off. I only hope he doesn't do that at school.

 

[Hedy]

My DH has at last, after 7 years of marriage living in a small house, learned to ask which bathroom he should use. I'd be lying in our room on the bed reading (my fave pastime) and here he'd come. "What are you doing?" I'd ask. "Going to the restroom" #1 or #2 I ask suspiciously. "NONE of your business" he'd say in a highly offended tone of voice. 3 minutes later, my eyes would be burning, the words on the page would be blurred and the smell would scorch my nose. I don't know what he eats but I hope it he liked it when it went down bucause it does NOT agree with him coming out. So I would have to leave the room and couldn't return for at least an hour becasue no amount of air freshener would kill the stench.

One day it was so bad that I gagged and had to run outside to be sick. He asked tthe kids where I was after he'd finished and DD 3 said "Your poop make her puke" So now he asks where he should poop before he goes.

I think this is the funniest (if most off topic) thread I have ever read!!

http://www.poopourri.net/

 

[Granite State Heidi]

I don't understand what takes so long for some people to go to the bathroom in general. My DH and DD don't read in the bathroom, but they sure sit there for what seems like FOREVER! I always think there's no way they are "going" the whole time. And if they aren't "going" then why not just come back when they can go? After all,isn't that where the old saying started?
If my DH and DD started reading or playing video games in there, they'd surely never come out!

Same here. Go in, do your business, come out. Never mind lolly-gaggin' around.

I think the disgusting part for me is that the longer you are in there, the longer you are steeping in the stench. Even after the courtesy flush.

 

[iltb]

OK....I'm just gonna ask.....for all of you who read, etc. on the toilet....and this is not to those who have IBS or some other diagnosed gastrointestinal problem.....just regular healthy folks who spend a long time on the potty. What is it that takes so long? Do you just like to sit there? ARE you ACTUALLY going the whole time? Do you want to sit and wait to see if anything else is going happen while you are already there? Is it a simply a habit? Really, this has been bugging me. I keep asking my DH what it is that takes so long. He sits in there so long he starts coughing since it starts smelling so bad. He's never really given me an answer. Someone, please enlighten me on the true reason. Honestly I know DH spends AT LEAST 45 minutes a day on the pot. The only times I have ever spent more than a minute or two is when I had a stomach ailment.

 

[TinkerbellMama]

I don't have a problem with anyone reading on the toilet. I will encourage my son to read anytime, anywhere. In fact, I give him a book whenever I know he has to do "Number 2" because he will be there a while. I can't understand why you are so disgusted by this, but trust me, you won't be able to control your children to the point that they never read on the potty!

 

[Tink561]

Where do you think I am right now?!

 

[U2_rocks!]

OK....I'm just gonna ask.....for all of you who read, etc. on the toilet....and this is not to those who have IBS or some other diagnosed gastrointestinal problem.....just regular healthy folks who spend a long time on the potty. What is it that takes so long? Do you just like to sit there? ARE you ACTUALLY going the whole time? Do you want to sit and wait to see if anything else is going happen while you are already there? Is it a simply a habit? Really, this has been bugging me. I keep asking my DH what it is that takes so long. He sits in there so long he starts coughing since it starts smelling so bad. He's never really given me an answer. Someone, please enlighten me on the true reason. Honestly I know DH spends AT LEAST 45 minutes a day on the pot. The only times I have ever spent more than a minute or two is when I had a stomach ailment.

I'm curious about this too! If it's taking that long for some "action", then maybe you're just not ready - go do something and come back! I find that if I start doing something active that requires a lot of stooping (like tidying up and putting away stuff, especially in low closet shelves), it stimulates things. So send your DH to do some physical work and he might get through more quickly!

 

[Mkrop]

I'm curious about this too! If it's taking that long for some "action", then maybe you're just not ready - go do something and come back! I find that if I start doing something active that requires a lot of stooping (like tidying up and putting away stuff, especially in low closet shelves), it stimulates things. So send your DH to do some physical work and he might get through more quickly!

Ok her DH is in the majority (ie he reads or it takes a little longer for the action) why should he have to change his bathroom habits.

I am not a doctor, maybe there is one out here who could help explain this bodily function, but I sometimes can go in and get out. Most times, I go a little, then I know I have more, so I guess my body relaxes, and the muscles relax as well and I would also think gravity may play a role, but then I can go some more. I am not reading War and Peace in there maybe a few pages of a book or magazine.

Right now I am still helping DS4 in the bathroom so I am "monitoring" what goes on, he still needs help with wiping and sometimes with his pants, anyway I go in there and ask "are you done" and he says "I did a little" :Ok you ready to get up" "no mommy I have more to do, and lo and behold 5-10 minutes later, he is finished! I am not going to have him come out in between and do jumping jacks to get the action moving faster

 

[MichelleVW]

Ok her DH is in the majority (ie he reads or it takes a little longer for the action) why should he have to change his bathroom habits.

I am not a doctor, maybe there is one out here who could help explain this bodily function, but I sometimes can go in and get out. Most times, I go a little, then I know I have more, so I guess my body relaxes, and the muscles relax as well and I would also think gravity may play a role, but then I can go some more. I am not reading War and Peace in there maybe a few pages of a book or magazine.

Right now I am still helping DS4 in the bathroom so I am "monitoring" what goes on, he still needs help with wiping and sometimes with his pants, anyway I go in there and ask "are you done" and he says "I did a little" :Ok you ready to get up" "no mommy I have more to do, and lo and behold 5-10 minutes later, he is finished! I am not going to have him come out in between and do jumping jacks to get the action moving faster

seiously......I'd rather stay in there a few minutes than keep going back and forth!!

I was talking about this thread with a co worker and I said "someone is upset because their DH is reading on the pot" and she said, "doesn't everyone??"

 

[U2_rocks!]

seiously......I'd rather stay in there a few minutes than keep going back and forth!!

I'm not talking about just a few minutes. For a lot of people it seems to be way more than just a few minutes. It seems like such a waste of time! I was very often home alone with my small children - there's no way I could shut myself in the bathroom for 10 minutes or more! Sorry, but I've got things to do, and if things don't happen within a minute, that's it, time's up. I also can't disappear from my office and go sit in a cubicle toilet for 15 minutes!

Hey, I'm not telling anyone else what to do with their time - it's THEIR time. I'm just amazed by the whole concept of so much bathroom time! Maybe I'm just too impatient or something.

By the way, I'm an avid reader, and my kids have always known this. I don't have a problem curling up in our patio swing chair with a book and reading while the kids play nearby. They have learned to respect my reading time, and they have learned from very young how to play tgether without needing me to entertain them. I'm there if they need me, and I do need to sort out the occasional quarrel or to stop one of them from doing something that could get dangerous. But on the whole I have built in relaxation time for myself because it is so important, and the kids allow me to do so because that's how it's always been in our house. I just couldn't relax in the bathroom - the swing chair is so much more comfortable!

 

[aprilgail2]

OK....I'm just gonna ask.....for all of you who read, etc. on the toilet....and this is not to those who have IBS or some other diagnosed gastrointestinal problemWhat is it that takes so long? Do you just like to sit there? ARE you ACTUALLY going the whole time? Do you want to sit and wait to see if anything else is going happen while you are already there? Is it a simply a habit? Really, this has been bugging me. I keep asking my DH what it is that takes so long. He sits in there so long he starts coughing since it starts smelling so bad. He's never really given me an answer. Someone, please enlighten me on the true reason. Honestly I know DH spends AT LEAST 45 minutes a day on the pot. The only times I have ever spent more than a minute or two is when I had a stomach ailment.

I don't get it either-if you are not ready to go then get up and do something else until it is "time" for you to acutally sit there and go. Why sit in the bathroom waiting for the time???

 

[Tink561]

I don't get it either-if you are not ready to go then get up and do something else until it is "time" for you to acutally sit there and go. Why sit in the bathroom waiting for the time???

If I am in there reading, etc. it is usually because I'm hiding from my toddler for a few minutes.

 

[lyzziesmom]

I don't get it either-if you are not ready to go then get up and do something else until it is "time" for you to acutally sit there and go. Why sit in the bathroom waiting for the time???

This isn't directed only at you, but at everyone who said something similar to the above post:

Have you people never been constipated? Sometimes you start to go, and then it gets stuck. You can't exactly start cleaning the house with the turtle poking its head of its shell!

Or have you never had diarrhea? You go, and go, and go... and it takes a long time before you're done. Again, can't quite run around doing chores when you're likely to have an unsightly explosion at any second.

I don't read in the bathroom every time, or even every day, but IF you're going to be in there for a while, it's nice to have something to do other than count the floor tiles and think about how miserable you are trying to get your poop out.

Geez Louise. I've said it before and I'll say it again. I am in awe of all you DISers with perfect bowels.

 

[U2_rocks!]

I am in awe of all you DISers with perfect bowels.

It's not a matter of having perfect bowels - but if you're not used to taking reading material into the bathroom, or stocking the bathroom with it, because you don't need it most of the time, you don't necessarily think of taking it with you if you suspect it might be a while! And sometimes you just don't know it's going to be a while when you go in! My office bathroom has no reading material - it's essentially a "public" bathroom with cubicles. And we would very seldom need it at home, so I don't put books in the bathroom there.

I guess since my mother never took books in the bathroom, I never developed the habit either. I've never liked to spend much time on a toilet, it has always felt very undignified, even from childhood - so my aim is always to get in and out as efficiently as possible. That's how I approach most distasteful tasks!

 

[Mouse House Mama]

It's not a matter of having perfect bowels - but if you're not used to taking reading material into the bathroom, or stocking the bathroom with it, because you don't need it most of the time, you don't necessarily think of taking it with you if you suspect it might be a while! And sometimes you just don't know it's going to be a while when you go in! My office bathroom has no reading material - it's essentially a "public" bathroom with cubicles. And we would very seldom need it at home, so I don't put books in the bathroom there.

I guess since my mother never took books in the bathroom, I never developed the habit either. I've never liked to spend much time on a toilet, it has always felt very undignified, even from childhood - so my aim is always to get in and out as efficiently as possible. That's how I approach most distasteful tasks!

Well I am sure many women dissers will agree when I say that I would never ever use a public bathroom for #2!!! Don't you know that women don't do those things?

 

[lyzziesmom]

My grandfathers both referred to the bathroom as "the library," and would head in there with the Sunday paper, a habit my dad picked up and is now passing on to my daughters (minus the Sunday paper part). It's not unusual for me to knock on the door when DD8 is in there and I'll yell, "Less reading, more pooping!"

 

[kaysmommie]

Maybe they are hiding in there.

Exactly! DH hides in there so he doesn't have to help with the kids. meanwhile mom nevers gets a frigin break . I know alot of people do this but I find it rather nasty.

 

[Mkrop]

Well I am sure many women dissers will agree when I say that I would never ever use a public bathroom for #2!!! Don't you know that women don't do those things?

Home pooper here!