Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Boys Will Be Boys...

...Not if I have anything to say about it.  Our boys are notorious for using the bathroom and NOT flushing the toilet.  It is disgusting and it drives me crazy.  I do believe that Logan has a genuine fear of the toilet.  When he was a bit younger he would stand and potty and then lean over to flush the toilet, knocking the seat down and smashing his little guys...OUCH!  He also has a fear of the noise the toilet makes when it flushes and fears that it might splash on him.  They have been taught to close the seat cover before you flush but for some reason they just don't do it.  We have asked, begged, gotten angry, put them in time-out, charged them a quarter, but nothing worked.  One day, Larry had the brilliant idea that whoever doesn't flush the toilet has to clean the toilet and suddenly, toilets were being flushed.  It's a miracle.  There are still days that they don't flush but they have improved 90%!  Why have we not thought of this before?!