Well this is more to do with toilets than telephones but have you ever noticed that from the time we start toilet training our kids, and even before we start training them, how fascinated they are with toilets??? Just pushing the button kept Little Miss K amused for a long time as did the idea of unrolling the toilet paper tearing it into small pieces and shoving it up her nose until it was so tightly packed a trip to the hospital was required....but I digress.
To we adults a toilet is simply a place to take care of bodily functions....but to a child it is almost like a magical place. Put something in the toilet....push the button....oooooh it's gone!!! Lets put Mummys phone in the toilet...push the button...nah still there...put Mummys letter in the toilet in little pieces...push the button....ooooh it's gone....ooooh look dog biscuits float in the toilet...now flush...ooooh still there!!!
This fascination with toilets isn't just contained to the family home...when we get ready to go out we tell the kids "go to the toilet before we leave" and as sure as eggs are eggs the minute we get to where we are going, even if it is only a 5 minute drive, "Mum/Dad I need to go to the toilet". Whats with that??? Do they also have a "fill bladder instantly on arrival" gene?? Nope it's the "I wanna check out the loo" gene. Shopping centres, supermarkets (Show me a Mum who hasn't done the "in the middle of grocery shopping" toilet dash with a small child "I have to go NOW Mum), local parks and even friends houses. I have to admit I now know where the toilets are in nearly every shopping centre, service station and local parks between the East and West Coasts of Australia along with all Australian airports and a few international airports thrown in for good luck.
Even now at the grand old age of 9 1/2 years of age Little Miss K will need to go especially if it is somewhere we havent been before....
Oh and by the way has anyone seen my mobile phone???
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