Self-flush toilets: potty-training saboteurs?

If you put a piece of toilet paper over the sensor, that seems to help a lot. Good luck! Those pots even bother me and I have been potty trained for a while now...

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I didn't know they flushed while a person was still sitting. Or is it just the noise as soon as one stands? If it works on a weight sensor, maybe a hand on the seat would help. I don't know.



I have mixed feelings. I was startled the first couple of times and I bet a small kid would come unglued.



On the other hand, they're a big improvement over what I've been unfortunate enough to find in public restrooms when a slob has been there before me.

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Try carrying a small package of Post-It notes in your bag; they're really handy to stick over the sensor.

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My poor girl was great til we encountered one of these.. It flushed while she was sitting and that was the end of it..



We had many tears.. especially being in walmart.. 30 min from home and she really had to go.. so after much presuasion and my hand has to be over the detector at all times.. (til she walks far away as she can) now (a year later) she is ok.. but she will always say.. mommy.. is the toilet like ours??



We need a kid friendly bathroom.. Poor kiddos already have a wild imagination.. they don't need this added to it.

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I admit to being completely amazed: behind the times I certainly appear to be, but, they REALLY make toilets that flush all by themselves?

Yowzers!

That would freak ME out and I'm 21. God knows what it would do to a small child, potty trained or not.



...So, do they *know* when you've finished and stood up, and then they, you know, just flush? Sorry, I'm totally in the dark and bemused about this one. It sounds so weird!



S'pose I shouldn't be surprised though. They can take people to the moon and back, program machines to fly to mars and make cars that are able to drive themselves; why not a thinking loo?

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We just had our first experience with one of those auto-flushers. I think that becuase the kids are small and kind of fidgetty, the sensor "thinks" they've gone away from the toilet when in fact they are still sitting on it. Luckily, it didn't scare my daughter (this time). She just thought it meant she was done and she got off and started pulling her pants up.

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The self-flushing toilets work using motion detectors, ostensibly flushing after/as you rise from the seat. My kids also hate them, so I usually stand over them and block the sensor with my hand.

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I think it would be good for daycares to put automatic flushing toilets in their bathrooms. The children would get used to being around them, and the children would not have to touch the handle on the potty to flush it.



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I hate them I have to tell my daughter that it will not flush on her and make sure I put my hand over the sensor so it won't. I have to keep the door to the stall unlocked so she can fly out of it when I let it flush. She freaks outs everytime.

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My daughter will be 3 in April and is the most brilliant kid I have seen (no kidding, she really is) yet she won't use the potty. She is not scared of it or the flushing sound. She will sit on her little potty for an hour and nothing happens. She will take her diaper off when it's wet and put on a dry one herself (the kind that tape even). I don't know what to do, but it certainly is not the fear of the flush.

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