Reader Survey, Part II
August 04, 2008
(Because I continue to be endlessly fascinated with other people's bathroom habits.)
This one's easy. Just one question.
The toddler potty seat. Move it or sit on it?
Personally, I've taken to calling it the iPhone Blocker 3000.
For me, it would depend on how badly I had to go.
Sit on it. I'm always in a hurry!
i move it, but generally just because my ass is too large to be accommodated by a toddler-size seat :(
I definitely move it.
I always move ours, but they are the easy-to-move kind and not the kind that attach at the bottom with wierd little hooks and such. Plus, my bottom might be a tad to big for the Dora Potty. Yikes!
Sit.
(Unless you're so hugely pregnant that you might accidentally crack it or something with your RAPIDLY ESCALATING WEIGHT, and get pinched in the process and that would HURT, but we've all seen your picture and we know you aren't a big bloated bulbous whale who is capable of that. Like I will be in, oh, three more weeks.)
Oh dear. I have totally sat upon the toddler seat. Although, I would like to think that that sort of activity is mainly limited to middle of the night/pre-coffee am trips to the potty. And there is usually some amount of toestubbing on the step stools in the bathroom at our place as well.
I'd have to remove it. But I don't have kids. I'm sure my view on the matter would change if I did. I figure I'd be too tired to care.
I'd call it the "whack scrotum on lippy thing and get set back in potty training by two months" device. But that's just the boy in me talking.
I think I'd hurt myself if I tried to sit on it. Of course, I'd probably manage to hurt myself trying to lift it, too. Hi! My name's Danielle, and I'm a spaz!
It would probably make me feel like my ass is even bigger than I already think it is, so I would move it.
Michael doesn't use one, so I would answer n/a.
Move it.
Takes 2 seconds to toss it to the floor. If you've started to unzip/unbutton on the way to the potty, even with those extra 2 seconds you won't pee in your pants.
Definitely move it. Even if I was desperate to go and might miss the toilet seat entirely in my haste to move the toddler seat. I would rather clean up the floor than sit on the toddler seat.
Eh...sit on it.
move it...but only because I have a three year old BOY, who probably peed on half of it, and I hate mystery wet butt...
Move that puppy!
We had the same one. Getting caught on the pee guard in the front is no picnic. eek!
Just have a plastic box off to the side of the toilet to place the seat in when not in use. (sanitary)
I think it depends on whether its a "dance, bounce, curse and jiggle all the way to the bathroom" moment or not...
I don't know about you but in those moments, I'm lucky if I even get all the way sitting down... maybe the toddler seat would just close the gap a little?
I say sit on it. I'd sit on it.
I think I would move it but only because that is by far the most gorgeous potty-training seat I have ever seen. Or maybe it's just the lighting? Because it looks like something Phillippe Stark would design.
Both, depending upon the size of mine phat ass at the time and the severity with which I need to pee!
I think my back end might be a touch too large to sit and actually HIT the bowl.
Oh, so sad.
Uh, I go to the neighbor's and when they ask me why I'm in their bathroom every day I just shake my head and say "Toddler seat," and they say "Aw, dude. Use ours all you want."
I move it. Cuz it freaks me out if I don't. Plus, it's often suspiciously wet.
Move it. Although ours was padded, so it probably would have been comfy now that I think about it.
Move it, but carefully. There's always pee between it and the actual toilet seat. So you might want to keep some flushable wipes handy to wipe the seat down first.
I'm too lazy to move it. I either go to another bathroom, or just go ahead and use it.
I dunno, yours looks all hard and plasticky and whatnot. Ours is the plush, padded version - which is especially nice in the winter since it provides a layer of cushiony niceness between my sweet cheeks and the hard, cold plastic seat. In the summer, though, it's not so grand to have the vinyl seat come up with your bum; did you know sweaty ass + vinyl = glue? Yeah. Not pleasant.
On an unrelated note, what's with having your SIFTW signing on September 27? Because after I missed getting your signature at the BlogHer Macy's party, and THEN missed it at the Cheeseburger shindig (didn't arrive till the rent-a-cops had broken it up) I was all "oh! Neat! Signing in DC!" and then realized that I am due to deliver this here baby the following day. Which sort of ruins any chances I had of convincing my husband to let me out of the house sans-children so I could head downtown.
Because, you know, he has that fear of me going into labor and birthing the kid with the assistance of a helpful cab driver or something.
GRF. Thwarted again.
Use the other bathroom. Wait, not an option?
Hmmm I dunno. When each of my three were ready to be trained, hubs and I went on vacation and sent the boys (one at a time) to his mothers house for a week of intensive potty bootcamp. when we got home, they were always magically trained and wearing cute little character undies.
I like to be different. I say SQUAT!
i think i fall into emily's pregnancy catergory at 35 weeks:
"Unless you're so hugely pregnant that you might accidentally crack it or something with your RAPIDLY ESCALATING WEIGHT, and get pinched in the process and that would HURT ......"
so im going with move it.
Hmm, I don't know. On the one hand, I'm lazy and I drink a lot of water. On the other hand, that front part looks sort of......pointy.
wish i had that seat in my hotel room at blogher. maybe i wouldn't have dropped my damn iphone in the toilet. thanks for nothin'!
We have 2 bathrooms, so we kept one in "their" bathroom, and used our bathroom. If we only had 1, I'd def move it!
Move it. I'm afraid my bum is too big for my toddler seat at home!!
Sit on it. Why not? And then ask for an M&M after as a reward!
Move it, I just, I just, CANNOT.
If you can fit on it, sit on it. We never used a potty seat. I thought it was important to develop good balancing skills; ie, I am cheap and lazy.
Move it.
Sit on it...and pray the whole time it doesn't snap in 2!
I move it. I am not tiny of butt, I would hate to break the thing.
We have that same one and move it!
Because I have boys (messy, dirty boys) I say MOVE IT. For the love of god, move it.
So I don't have a potty seat, or children... but looking at that picture... definitely sit. Too lazy for moving.
My 2yr old has that same seat. It just depends on how bad you have to go and how far the other bathroom is... Ive moved it, and ran down the hall. Look, I tried to sit on it once...but it felt too odd.
Depends on how drunk I am!
After several butt pinches and peeing on myself one too many times, the little seat is now tossed aside.
Move it. My butt's too big.
I always moved ours. Now the boy is waaaaay too big for it, himself.