...to stop buying toilet roll until DD2 stops behaving like the Andrex puppy?

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Seriously, every single day I walk into the bathroom and it’s like a snow scene! She’s been given every possible opportunity to rectify her behaviour (she’s 5!) under a variety of threats and promises and she knows she mustn’t do it but she still does! What’s the matter with the kid? Why has my child got a loo roll fixation? 😩

Wrap her up like a mummy so she can't do anything else. Her love will fade

If it's any consolation I'm 36 and my mum still complains I go through too much toilet roll when I go to stay

Some of us are just wadders.

Oh OP!My 5 year old son can't resist the lure of toilet roll either.He's a really good boy in general, but it winds me up cos it is such a toddler thing to do!He apologises each time but within a few days he'll do it again.Drives me batty because even he doesn't know why he does it and he's not destructive at all.So..no tips from me just understanding haha!

It might not help the puppy types, but I read that squeezing the roll so that the middle is oval rather than round slows it down when people try to tug off yards of paper

Is it the temptation to spin the paper on he holder until it all unravels? If it's that then maybe taking it off the holder and keeping it on the toilet tank might make it less appealing.

If you have the end of the paper hanging off the outside of the roll, turn the roll around so it's hanging off the inside (if that makes sense!). Had to do the same thing because of my cat.

I have no advice only commiseration. My 5-year-old DD is the same.

I just wind it back on to the roll and send him to his room if my 4 year old has done that. We don't waste things I have spent money on. It's happened once or twice, probably when he was 2 or 3. My one year old does it, he gets removed from the bathroom (usually gone in after his brother) and firmly told no.

It doesn’t stay on the roll, it’s torn into shreds and left on the bathroom floor. I rescue any clean useable pieces but the rest has to be binned and it drives me crazy. I’ve even tried hiding the loo roll and doling it out as needed but she always finds it!

But the mummification suggestion is tempting...

Wait till she 8, strips her Lottie doll clothes off and dresses them every day in toilet roll dresses

Does she do it at school ? If not she knows how to restrain herself, and she knows it's wrong.

Do you make her clean up the mess she as made ? Make sure she gets to use the salvageable shredded stuff while everyone else gets to use the proper roll.

It's kind of amusing at first but repeatedly doing it is just wasteful and I do think 5 is old enough to start learning about not wasting resources.Maybe get her an age appropriate book about how paper is made, and how trees have to be cut down etc. She might start to enjoy being careful with paper if she understands the process and why it's important not to waste stuff.

I was going to suggest hiding it. Could you hide it somewhere else / higher? Top of your wardrobe?

If it was about spinning it on the holder i would try an elastic band round the roll but it doesn't sound like that's the problem?

Natural consequences?

"No, sorry, Mommy can't buy any candy today. She has to spend that money on more toilet paper, because you chose to waste it again."

"No, sorry, Mommy can't take you to the park today. She doesn't have time because she has to go to the grocery store and buy more toilet paper, because you chose to waste it again."

That sort of thing. There's no need to make it vindictive or passive aggressive, either, just very calm and matter of fact: that was the choice you made, and now here's what's happening as a direct result.

Well seeing as she'll be about 11 now, she's probably grown out of it.

Make her a toy one from fabric and hang it on a real toilet roll holder.

Zombie thread alert!