Little girls and public toilets!

[Mooshie]

How the bloody hell are you supposed to get a little girl to wee in a public loo! There is no way i'm going to plonk her peaches on a seat where god knows who else has sat but whenever I have taken her to go, the wee goes all over the floor and my feet! There must be a foolproof way of getting the wee into the toilet! HELP!!!!!

What are limescale and a bit of wet tissue going to do, leap up and bite you? Surely it is ickier to piss yourself than it would have been just to go to the toilet, despite a bit of loo roll and limescale.
Hmm, you may not have specifically told them to wash your hands but it sounds like they've picked up on your fear/phobia and are developing their own, especially if one does it so much he makes himself sore. Surely OCD type tendencies aren't to be encouraged! Sounds like your mum didn't help if she was encouraging the hovering thing- I hope you don't give your kids the same complex so they can pass it on to their kids too. It's not as if it even has any reasonable basis in fact!

When I was a child , I didnt know what limescale was, I just saw a brown grimy bog, soggy paper on the floor and nearly lost my lunch. I can take mess in any room except the kitchen and the bathroom, my mind goes into overdrive imagining what the 'wet' is. I just like clean germ free living and so do my children!

Their room is usually a tip, and they would step over a toy on the floor a hundred times but mess in the toilet? HELL NO! They are very typical children in every other aspect the boys have no fears/phobias they dont mind mess but cannot abide dirt and if they go to a friends house and the toilet is not clean, they wont go again!

I have never given them a 'Toilet speech' I think its just that they are used to a very clean toilet at home and wont accept less anywhere else. Both of them, with no prompting from me, will wipe our toilet seat with antibac wipes before they use it if there are guests in the house. Even I dont do that!

But germ free is now accepted to not really be the best way to go, isn't it? Not good for children's developing immune systems.

Or for developing relationships with friends if they really are that fussy about the toilets at friends' houses. The fact that a child would actually avoid a friend for such a silly reason just makes me think it's madness!

Can see you don't really get my point, each to their own, hey :)