Is it normal for a parent to paper a toilet seat for an 11-year-old?

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At a pro football game recently, in the stall next to mine I had a mother come in with her daughter (who she referred to as being in the 5th grade), select the exact toilet of the ones available, drop the seat (with a piece of toilet paper she took off the roll), and despite her daughter's complaints of "Oh Mom, do you really have to do this?" and "I'm ready to crap my pants!", the mom forced her daughter to wait while she pulled toilet paper off and placed it over the seat. I think she double lined it and a couple of the strips fell to the floor as the girl continued to complain, finally dropping her jeans and underwear, but still having to wait for the seat to be prepared. The process must have lasted three or four minutes and as I finished my crap I got to feeling so sorry for that girl and the unintended "message" her mom is giving her. I finished wiping and noticed I had used up the last of the toilet paper on my roll. Two or three users like that girl could easily use up much, if not a whole roll. I think parents at any age can be overbearing, and that mom was a good example. I've never thought twice about sitting on the seat and completing my bodily functions as fast as possible. I'm fortunate that my parents let me find my own way with things like this.

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  • NotStrangeBird
    10 years ago

    I just glue toilet paper to my butt so I'm always ready and hygienic for a public toilet.

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    • gloryholeflasher
      8 years ago

      Toujour pret!

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  • RomeoDeMontague
    10 years ago

    I think this would count as child abuse.. Not normal. The mother should not be forcing her 5th grader to piss and shit in front of her.

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  • blue_avocado
    10 years ago

    Weird. Really weird. I taught my kids to tp the seat when they were little and I want to say by 5 they were able to do it alone. I stopped going in stalls around 4-5. I would just stand outside of it.

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  • Avant-Garde
    10 years ago

    How creepy. While there's nothing wrong with erring on the side of caution when it comes to public loos, she shouldn't have to do it for her kid at that age. Was their stall door close, because I imagine the sight of that would be very disturbing to passerby. Also, why would the girl strip? Did her mom instruct her to talk of her clothes?

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  • Curious_Questions
    10 years ago

    The mom is classic overprotective. Very much so, and in a way that could be "abusive," but I really hate that word being applied to this situation because the mom has very good intentions. The mom probably has some OCD germaphobe issues and thinks that her kid will get sick if she sits on the bare toilet seat. The kid will have to deal with it and will be annoyed by a lot of things her mother does. Not like child protective services needs to come and remove the kid from a harmful situation. But the kid is going to have to at some point deal with the fact that her mother is at times irrational, like many parents. (I have an overprotective mother. What are ya gonna do? :/ Still love her but no that's not "normal." I doubt it's worse than a lot of "normal" things many parents put their kids through, though. The mom here seems to really value being a "good parent" whereas many parents just don't even care what their kids are doing on the internet.)

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  • Hannible
    10 years ago

    Gross would be better to tell her to hover over the seat, Bombs awayyyyyy! lol.

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  • Ronnett
    10 years ago

    Yes, the stall door was closed and there was some talk of it since the two of them in that really small stall didn't have much space to move around in--this was especially true of the mom who seemed to bump her back into the partition between us as she worked to lay the paper on the seat. I think the girl dropped her jeans and underwear to scare her mom that she had to get onto the toilet right away. As I was seated and wiping myself I could tell by the legs under the partition that the girl had not yet seated her self and that she was panicking even more. By the way, on our way home from the game my boyfriend had to stop at a rest area to use the bathroom. After that, I told him about what I observed and he had an excellent question: How does that girl function at her school?

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  • Isabella80s
    10 years ago

    Hmm... on the one hand, some public toilets are gross, on the other hand, yeah, it seems over the top and she could be teaching her kid to be a germaphobe. As a parent, your instinct is to protect your kids and sometimes in protecting them from something else, parents end up causing damage in another way. Perhaps this parent could carry some wipes around with them and use them on a toilet seat for reassurance. I'm more understanding of the paper thing if the toilets looked like they hadn't been cleaned in a week. Public toilets should be cleaned daily. Hopefully they don't do it in their own home... otherwise that really is crossing a line.

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  • Terence_the_viking
    10 years ago

    Haha.

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    That is very weird that the Mom is doing this at this age. I agree that is abusive.

    I do think it's normal to put toilet paper on the seat though. I do this in public bathrooms as well since they tend to be disgusting.

    An 11 year old should not require adult supervision in the bathroom though.

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