This one is toilet-seat-related...

[AhCmonSeriouslyNow]

AIBU in thinking that leaving the toilet seat up at night for ease of middle-of-the-night peeing is not a dangerous practice?

Please note, this is leaving aside any germ-spraying flush danger or hygiene concerns

Someone is concerned that our 3 year old might get injured or drown if he ends up head first in the toilet if he attempts to go himself in the night.
I cannot take this concern seriously and find the idea of wee on the seat from me or my daughter going for a sleepy pee and not expecting the toilet seat down is a more real concern.

AIBU?

But what difference would it make if the lid was down?

once open the risk remains the same...

YANBU :)

I used to hate it because if I went for a sleepy pee it was bloody cold on my bum & woke me up.

YANBU it is not dangerous but it is unpleasant, little bums can fall in & get wedged which can be scary for them but a pretty low risk nuisance I would say.

Who's clutching their pearls in your house then?

Is it soft-close? YABU if it isn't. Anyone with a toilet seat which is not soft-close IBU.

It is not a soft close toilet seat lid vivipru so apologies for my unreasonableness on that account.

Glad it's a "not dangerous" verdict so far. 'twas my husband who suggested that "children can die" that way which I really don't think is very likely at all.

It is not a soft close toilet seat lid

YANBU. We leave the lid up at night and DDs step in place, otherwise DD wees on the lid or the floor whilst trying to open the lid/get the step in place, no ones ever fallen down the loo, although the dog has drunk from it when DDs forgotten to shut the door when shes done.

How many children have died by falling into a toilet head first in the night? Surely the danger if they did fall would be cracking their head in the porcelain which would still be the case with the seat up.

Wouldn't your three year old be able to lift the seat up anyway, or put it down?

If you think he is likely to fall in (in his sleepy state) let him use a potty at night...

Chopsypie I was tempted to google the number of children who die by falling headfirst in the toilet (drowning or otherwise) but decided not to.
I put the toilet lid down to keep the peace (and, sure enough, DD sat on as she wasn't expecting it down when she went to wee but no wee-on-seat drama ensued) and will continue to do so but am glad everyone agrees that leaving it up would not be a death risk for the small children.

He could lift it himself though he would be much more likely to shout for me to help him anyway.

If he attempts to go by himself in the night he'll pull the seat up anyway?
There have been no recorded instances of children drowning by shoving their heads down toilets in the western world, ever. I don't think

its no good, I googled it, the only toilet related deaths I found were:

In 1945, the German submarine U-1206 was sunk after the toilet malfunctioned, and a crewman's botched repair forced them to the surface.[8]

King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia was murdered with a spear while sitting in the garderobe on August 4, 1306.

a convicted murderer in South Carolina sat on the metal toilet in his cell while fixing his television. When he bit one of the wires, the resultant electric shock killed him. Another convicted murderer, Laurence Baker in Pittsburgh, was electrocuted while listening to the television on home-made earphones while sitting on a metal toilet.

Oh and some pretty horrible articles about a new born baby being flushed down the toilet in China.

Nothing about toddlers falling into the loo and drowning though