Does anyone else worry about toilet drownings? I mean there are all these warnings out there about toddlers not having the upper body strength to pull themselves out of the toilet (just like a bucket). They sell toilet locks and tell you to keep the bathroom door closed. We've been keeping the bathroom door closed and DD just tells us when she has to go and we go with her to the bathroom.

I was trying to look up how old they are when they DO have upper body strength to pull themselves out, and the literature I can find says like 4 or 5. But by that age some kids are already going to the bathroom by themselves at night while the parents are asleep, which completely freaks me out. How would I know she's drowning if she going by herself while I'm asleep?

Makes me terrified of night time potty training if she's trained before she's old enough to be safe in there... Am I the only one who worries about this?

Honestly it never occurred to me at all. the lid was always down and the most that ever happened was a toilet bath with my youngest. ( where she splashed around in the water but I was in the bathroom with her)

yes, I worried about it when my kids were younger. We used a toilet lock/latch thing.

We used a toilet lock/latch thing.

And then they just had to come get you at night when they wanted to use the toilet?

And then they just had to come get you at night when they wanted to use the toilet?

yes, which really wan't all that often. Once in a great while. In fact my kids still come and wake me up if they have to go to the bathroom...I'm like ok...go!! :lmao

I do freak out about it....DD is only 18 months, but she knows the toilet is a BIG TIME no-no and that she will get in serious trouble for going in the bathroom.

We also keep the bathroom door closed too.