Be honest: raise your hand if you hide in the bathroom

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never, my family doesn't care and will walk right in.

Teach them to respect closed doors.

Also, invest in locks. If you ever have guests, they will thank you. It’s pretty nasty not to have locks on bathroom doors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never, my family doesn't care and will walk right in.

Teach them to respect closed doors.

We have one bathroom.

And zero locks????

[Anonymous]

my husband does it every morning, right when we are rushing around I know he is scrolling on his phone behind the door.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who hides in the bathroom pretending to poop but really just hanging out on your phone, getting some “me” time? Am I the only one? I’m sure my family thinks I’m chronically constipated.

You are my husband

or so very many people’s husbands (and the odd wife).

Guess I'm the odd wife. I used to sit in my car in my driveway when I came home from work , but stopped after the kids started coming outside to talk to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never, my family doesn't care and will walk right in.

Teach them to respect closed doors.

Also, invest in locks. If you ever have guests, they will thank you. It’s pretty nasty not to have locks on bathroom doors.

Do you get some people on have one bathroom? Its not nasty. If someone is in the shower, and someone needs the toilet and cannot wait, then what? I'm not locking my kids out of the toilet. And, if I have to go bad enough and they are relaxing on the toilet, they get evicted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never, my family doesn't care and will walk right in.

Teach them to respect closed doors.

We have one bathroom.

And zero locks????

No, not a big deal. And, when you have one bathroom, it needs to get shared.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never, my family doesn't care and will walk right in.

Teach them to respect closed doors.

Also, invest in locks. If you ever have guests, they will thank you. It’s pretty nasty not to have locks on bathroom doors.

Do you get some people on have one bathroom? Its not nasty. If someone is in the shower, and someone needs the toilet and cannot wait, then what? I'm not locking my kids out of the toilet. And, if I have to go bad enough and they are relaxing on the toilet, they get evicted.

This! Try dealing with 2 adults and 3-7 kids with only 1 bathroom. We had shifts for toilet usage mornings and evenings, and unless there was a medical emergency, nobody got to camp! Oh, and nobody got to lock the door while showering, either!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never, my family doesn't care and will walk right in.

Yup

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to take this opportunity to encourage you all to stop hiding and just tell your kids that you are going to your room for some private time. They can learn, at any age, that parents have to right to take time for themselves (assuming someone else is there to supervise them of course). Now is the time to normalize this idea.

I did this with my third kid, who is the chattiest human being I have ever met. When he was in preschool, he would draw pictures in a notebook and ask the teachers to fill in the captions because he didn't yet know how to write. We saw the notebooks only at the end of the year. In addition to a lot of cute animal drawings and super-hero stories, there was a whole series of a person-looking blob with captions along the line of "This is my mommy waving good bye over her shoulder as she goes to her room for Quiet Time." and "This is my mommy peeking out her bedroom door to see if anyone is in the hall. I am sitting on the floor by her door waiting for Quiet Time to be over." It was pretty embarrassing.