To expect to be able to go to the toilet in peace?

[Mistymoo]

Whenever I go to the toilet, something always happens. Someone gets hurt - despite playing fine before I went into bathroom, someone needs something, someone needs the toilet - and is so desperate they can't get to the other one.

I thought this would have stopped by now, ds is 7 and dd is 4!!!!!!!!!!!!

YABU. Yet another of the Things They Dont Tell You Before You Have a Baby. There is no pee in peace.

I always seem to get interrupted. Admittedly it may be partly because once I'm there I start reading the paper or New Scientist as the loo is the only opportunity for such things.

And even if DD is in bed the dog follows me in and curls up on the warm spot where the hot water pipes run underneath. I think his ambition is to become a pedestal mat.

2 of my cats actually jump on my lap given half the chance ..........

YABU, I don't get peace from dd1, ds or dd2 but the worst culprit is dh, I think he notices my absence and shouts me from the bottom of the house to the top, when he finally locates me (in the bathroom) he always asks, 'what are you doing?' AARRRGGGHHH!!!!!

I think I have just realised why my parents kept the outside loo on their old house....

OMG do I have all this to come?? noooo...lol.
As a child I can always remember myself and my younger twin sisters following my mum to the bathroom and either sitting in the hall outside or on the bathroom floor (it was quite a big room).

I don't think parents are able to go tot eh loo in peace until their DC leave home!

LOLOL! Now this reminds me of tale of my youth....

When me, my sister and two brothers were small, my mother went shopping every Wednesday afternoon and bought us each a comic and some sweets. Coming back home, she would distract us with the sweets, nick the comics and hightail it to the bathroom where she proceeded to lock herself in. She would stay there until she had read each comic from cover to cover. Having scoffed our sweets, the four of us would beg, plead, howl and hurl ourselves at the locked door to no avail. Once she'd finished reading, she would come out, all sweetness and light, and we finally got to read our comics. The best of it was she caught us out week after week - it just goes to show that if you show a child sweets, sheer greed overtakes everything else!

BTW, does anyone else miss the good old Jackie and Twinkle magazines?

Kath :0)

I am sure this is why so many mothers are either constipated/or have 'water works' trouble.

I remember that moment when, after putting 2 children to bed, being able to sit AND relax.

"Hmmmmmmmmm I have total control of my bowels Hmmmmmmm"

My friends a childminder, she never goes to the loo without at least 2 of them accompanying her

I was just telling my dh about this thread because of what happened earlier and then he went to the toilet and right on cue dd got hurt in the living room!

for me, its either my DD, my DP or my dog!

I wonder the same thing..i can be often heard screaming from the toilet DON'T I EVER* GET ANY PEACE..cat dog husband child arghh.Also why do ppl feel the need to go to the toliet with the door open and WHY dont ppl clean the toliet after they have been (aimed at husband)

I was calling for ds once, when he was about 4, and I heard a plaintive voice from the loo saying, "Can't I just have some piece of quiet for a _minute in here?" My point exactly!

By the way, dc are now 11 and 9 and they still create some sort of international incident when I'm in the bathroom. Nowadays, though, they're tough enough to cope when I shout "Go away!"

I am always saying this! Drives me mad. It only gets worse the older they get I'm afraid. Always one of them banging on the loo door shouting 'muuuuuuuuuuuum' when they have ALL DAY to speak to me.

I could live happily without the 'mummy wee-wee or mummy poo?' fascination of my two year old.

YABU I am lucky if I avoid bf on bog!

the dts have realised that this is Very Annoying, so they both follow me now, and the lock isn't working. I get to wee with two little boys sitting on the floor, lined up watching me and grinning their heads off.

merryberry - that is awful when they do it in public toilets! 'Mummy doing poopoo?'

It's public toilets that get me. What do you do when your 8 year old DS needs the loo in a public shop...like I am going to let him go into the mens toilets alone...no way...but then he is getting to big to use the ladies now and does not want to go in...and now they have started locking all those disabled toilets with those radar key things......we need toilets that are for children only. Yeah

poos and wees are always a double-act at home, with me and dd going hand by hand to the toilet. She is not satisfied until I sit on the toilet, whilse she sits on the potty, whether I really need to wee or not.
And when i really need to, she insists on coming along too, so there is no toilet privacy anymore in this house :-)

beeper I take my ds1 in with me, but he is 5 and has sn, I'm sure at 8 your ds can go on his own. Surely it is embarassing for him to go into the ladies? Family toilets are nice though, they have those in woking - much better.

not unreasonable, just unrealistic!

If I walk in on DH he gets all moody and my DD tells me I should knock first!! OMG, but when I'm on the toilet it's like a family gathering! xx