How to Prevent a Self-Flushing Toilet From Scaring Your Child
In one of the darkest moments of my parenting career, I kept a terrified three-year-old on the toilet, which was constantly automatically flushed at a volume that would only be suitable for the whistling sound of the gates of hell. It was the men’s restroom in a computer store in Manhattan, I was kneeling in a puddle of urine, and my son, who had recently potty trained himself, covered his ears with his hands, courageously trying to relieve himself. Ten minutes later, without reaching our goal, we got out of the bathroom, our knees soaked in the urine of a male computer nerd, and my son complained that he still had to go (and I spent too much money replacing the laptop). Hopefully this story illustrates the dangers of a self-flushing toilet.
Now I have another small child who is scared by a loud flush in the toilet and I accidentally stumbled upon this video demonstrating that a TP cover on the sensor will turn off the flush – Hallelujah!
If the sensor is particularly powerful – something like an all-seeing defecating eye that turns and pirouettes (idea: another alien game, but with toilets) – then you can remove a long toilet paper, like a yard, and wrap it up. around the eye and around the eye and tie it up. Or keep duct tape or duct tape in your bag. Or just beat it to death. For kids.