To not disinfect my daughters toilet seat?

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Family member has dissed dd's toilet training seat. It's one of those folding ones with a built in step.

One as being expensive and swanky at £15.00 (she had a stool and seat from Ikea that were £10.00 each but that's cheaper as she got two things )

And this is the bit that is bothering me.
It's apparently unhygenic. Because I only wipe it down with antibacterial spray and a cloth like the toilet. I should buy a normal child's toilet seat like she did so it can be soaked in Milton and thoroughly disinfected of bum germs.

AIBU? Are we meant to disinfect toilet seats? If so why did I not know this?

Some people are paranoid. I'm not.

Oh good google! No, YANBU.

Does your DD have dysentry?

No? Then YANBU and your family member should soak her head in Milton.

When my children were toilet training, I wiped their seat down with babywipes. Dread to think what your family member would think of that! And I consider myself relatively clean and somewhat paranoid about germs.

She sounds like she has a serious germ phobia.

Tell her you don't need to. As you put it in the dish washer.

Rubbish

YANBU. Your family member is nuts.

honey - we will all eat a peck of dirt before we die.

I'm not suggesting that you use said bog seat for serving canapes, but your present cleaning routine sounds more than sufficient to me.

Turnip karzy is lucky if it gets a lick and a promise

Who on earth would Milton a toilet seat! Your DC is going to sit on it to wee and poo, they're not going to eat off it.

They're talking rubbish!

Isn't the average mobile phone meant to habour more germs than most toilet seats? I think your relative is being just a teeny bit over cautious.

Bum germs? I regularly kiss DS bare bum cheeks. My mouth has more germs than his bum cheeks

Excellent. So there is not some random toilet seat disinfecting subculture happening.

I checked dds bum, it doesn't appear toxic or life threatening

I have OCD relating to germs and therefore have quite big issues with toilets - and I think YANBU!!

Anti-bac spray is just that - it KILLS germs. As I said - I have OCD - proper diagnosed OCD - and anti-bac spray is good enough for me, it's my favourite :)

Your family member is being very overzealous, and I never get to say that lol!

The question that it did raise in my head is WHERE is she soaking it? Because for me that would then have the issue of spreading toilet germs elsewhere in the house - be it a bucket (which I'd then have to disinfect) or - worst possible ever - the SINK! That's just grim and would probably give me a crazy ass panic attack.

Your way is perfect, it's clean - she's a loon!

I also have to confess to laughing when she mentioned the Milton and stopped abruptly when she looked hurt

Hence Mnet, where people are happy to admit to all kinds of extreme cleaning. But not children's toilet seats soaked in Milton it seems

Onlywantsone - there is actually a serious article on the net that recommends putting proper toilet seats in the dishwasher to clean off stubborn marks....

I was a little sick in my mouth just thinking about it. Even thinking about it is making my skin crawl. That's just dirty....

www.ehow.com/how_6695331_clean-toilet-seats-dishwasher.html

I was 17, and had left home, before I discovered that normal families did not wash salad or pick & mix sweets (among many other things) in Milton before digesting them. But, there again, my mother does have huge OCD problems.

Oh thank goodness. I've always worried that my trainer seat/potty cleaning was a bit slatternly but it seems I'm fine :)

Would it not have been easier to simply not buy pic n mix? Your poor mum and poor you though , did she get help?

If you don't dip your children in bleach every night before bed then they won't make it through the night.

Fact.

OnlyWantsOne

You're suppose to clean the toilet?!?!?!
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I'm kidding!

Shlock

Well it's a definite consensus - I don't need to disinfect the toilet seat.

I clean my shower with Milton.

hellhasnofury

Your Mum washed salad in Milton? Dear goodness.

I don't know if any causal relationship between exposure to germs and (lack of) various allergies and other ailments has been proved but I only know that my Mum was up there vying for title of World's worst housekeeper (by today's standards) and we were all as happy and healthy as sandboys. Apples from the trees, cheese out of the kitchen drawer (no fridge and you scraped off any mold), jam from the jar and you removed the mold with a spoon if it had formed a crust, milk and eggs from the local farm - usually straight from the animal with bits floating/stuck to them......and so on.

You keep on going the way you've been doing, OP.

We rinsed our dishes in Milton when camping in the Libyan desert, and needed to clean up our utensils and cooking gear.