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To be considering a bathroom ultimatum for DS?

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TottWriter · 07/05/2019 10:20

Okay, so DS is 11 years old. He's generally pretty good, if burdened with what I am assuming is the usual pre-teen scatterbrains (uniform wedged in the bottom of the wardrobe instead of folded, bed perpetually unmade, constant reminders needed that his personal hygiene requirements are now stepping up a notch and will require effort on his part to fix them).

Unfortunately, whereas most of the above are slowly (like, continental-drift kinda speed slowly) improving, the bathroom is getting worse. Specifically, his aim is getting worse, not better, and I am getting pretty tired of the bathroom smelling like a public loo.

DS is the only male individual in the house. It's all on him, and I'm getting a bit...frustrated that we're going backwards here. I did this once. It's annoying to have it a second time.

It's at the point, having just cleaned out a toilet which was - TMI warning - practically flooded behind the rim, that I am considering giving him an ultimatum: either he learns to aim better, or he can be the one cleaning it up.

Obviously he's a little bit young to just hand the bathroom cleaning products to, so it would be more a case of him wiping things down (and then I'll do the regular real clean when he's at school), but am I being unrealistic about his bathroom capabilities? Surely it's not too much to ask that he actually aims it into the toilet and not all over the effing hinges for the seat???

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BrainScience · 08/05/2019 10:45

machine that is one of those ridiculous facts that I’ll remember for my whole life now. My head is full of obscure facts but I can never actually remember anything vaguely useful.

MachineBee · 08/05/2019 14:26

It’s true. They have lots of weird laws. You cannot use a washing machine in shared accommodation on Sundays, or use noisy electrical garden equipment.

chilledteacher · 08/05/2019 14:37

I make DS1 -14 and DS2-9 clean up. Got sick to death of mopping up their spills and as neither would admit to it, they now take it in turns. Problem hasn't been as bad since they started taking responsibility for it themselves.

Whatisthisfuckery · 08/05/2019 15:00

I like the idea of no stand up pissing on higher floors after 11pm. DP used to have an upstairs neighbour who’d come in late after a night out, and you’d hear boom boom boom across the floor, then slam and a 5 second power we. It was a bit uncomfortable when we’re were lying in bed trying to fall asleep.

Personally I’ve always made my DS clean up his own piss ever since he was about 6 or 7. I told him he either learned to leave the toilet clean after him or he need to sit down and do it. A few times with the detol and a cloth and I’ve not had an issue since. Now he moans about public mens loos because they’re filthy and stinking.

gingerbiscuits · 08/05/2019 16:43

Nope - I'd happily make him clean it if he can't be respectful enough to pee properly at his age!

WeeDangerousSpike · 08/05/2019 17:14

Are Swedish ladies allowed to pee standing up?

MachineBee · 08/05/2019 17:39

I have no idea about Swedish laws, only Swiss ones. Grin

Pieinthesky11 · 08/05/2019 20:42

My ds is 6 and has to wipe up his own badly aimed wee

kalinkafoxtrot45 · 08/05/2019 20:56

Even the orderly Germans laugh at the Swiss for their regulations. It is considered good and proper here for men to sit down to pee in a loo in someone’s home, but there are no actual laws mandating it!

I might pretend there are though, next time we have visitors...

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