Do you make your kids clean the loo?

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Particularly after themselves if they make a mess.

I lost it with the DSs (and DH too, although I don't think he realised I was talking to him too... )today. I feel that every time I go into a toilet in our house it needs cleaning before I can use it .

It ranges from 'mild' (i.e. drips on bowl rim/ floor; skid marks; loo roll left trailing on floor (clean, not used...)

to IMHO completedly out-of-order mess (i.e. poo on seat, wee in pools on floor)

I am so angry. DS (age 7, not SN, perfectly capable) just wee-ed half over the floor ("I got distracted Mummy, and turned away..")and left it there. It has now run UNDER the fixed toilet bowl on the tiled floor.

I made him clean it up, and mop the floor I was so mad.

DH is nearly as bad. I have deliberately left the kids' skiddy loos before now as a 'test' and he will just ignore it, and use the loo.

Am REALLY fed up of this....why should I be the toilet cleaning slave???

I ask DS to clean it if he has made a mess, He is 7 too and the "I got distracted" excuse is often used, but he is definitively getting better at it.

However, your problem seems way worse. Skiddy marks??? I think you need to give them a serious talk on that, that is totally unreasonable.

I don't make them clean it but I get mad especially at dh. In fact I had a major meltdown last week over it. He has now started to take clean products into the loo with him and I must admit it hasn't been quite so bad, but then I think I scared him, because I really lost it big time and he had never seen me like that before in 17 years of knowing him!

Poo on seat completely unreasonable. Think I would be having a family meeting about sharing responsibility for clean toilets.

Our family rule is "if you make a mess of any sort you either clean it up yourself if you know how, or tell someone and ask for help if you don't"

But if you have been cleaning up uncomplainingy for years it is unreasonable to go suddenly ballistic without warning. Family meeting is in order, I think.

I assume by skid marks you mean in the bowl not on the seat?

My 5 year old DS wouldnt notice skid marks in bowl, ut he would tell me if he got poo on the seat. He doesnt quite have the manual dexterity to actually clean the loo yet, but I made him get up 20 mins early the other day and help clean my ensuite, after he covered half of it with shaving foam, so yes I would definitely be expectign a 7 year old and an adult to be pulling their own weight. In my DS' defence he was actually trying to clean the ensuite with the shavinf foam apparently afetr watching 'How Clean is Your House'

Wee on floor has yeilded ballistic reaction from me so many times in the past that it no longer happens, thank god, but I shall keep an eye out for 'distraction' kicking in again!!