Just don't get it......peeing through the gap in the seat

English: toilet seat up Deutsch: hochgeklappte Toilettenbrille (USA) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I bang my head against the wall all the time with this one. Every time it happens, I want to make her wear her wet pants the rest of the day. Is that wrong? I don't know......

Here's the deal. Little Miss is just always on the move, never has time to use the toilet properly. She's always peeing through the damn seat. It drives me NUTS, especially now that I know this is the reason for her pants being wet so many times.

I guess I should be happy she isn't haven't accidents at her age, or now that I know this is the reason for the wetness, all those years prior to figuring it out.

There were many times when she'd be soaking wet, and tell me she didn't have an accident, but there she was soaking wet. I couldn't figure it out. Until one day, after weeks of this happening when she was four (yes, FOUR) I saw her climb on the potty and go. Yet, she was soaked when she went to pull them up.

LIGHT BULB. It was then that I noticed only the backs of her pants were getting wet. DUH. I'd been so insanely aggravated that she was wet, that I never realized it was just the backs of her pants that were soaked.

In my defense, I was dealing with a younger child during this period in our lives, and potty training him. So I wasn't super excited Little Miss had decided to start having this issues.......my brain was not running on all cylinders. I was lucky to make it through the day without losing my shit.

Once we figured it out, I thought "awesome, problem solved." Not so much. She continues to do this. We go for long periods of time where she remembers to sit back, aim down, and make sure her pee stream is no where near that gap of the toilet seat and the bowl. Then, BOOM. She comes home with different pants on, and her original ones in a bag.

She just sheepishly looks at me as I hold the bag of wet, peed on pants, and says "I know, you're not happy with this situation."

Now, with all of this, I figured The Boy would know better.....yes, he still sits on the potty. He learned to go from me and his sister, my husband never showed him what to do as a boy. Now The Boy wants nothing to do with standing and peeing, but he'll figure out that's not the way to do it if he wants to make sure he isn't made fun of in school..........

Of course, he pees through the side of the toilet, as well. PENIS DOWN is our mantra, but every once in a while the little pisher pees through the gap in the seat.

WTF dude?

And this is when I realize, the kids really are alike in so many ways.....it's not always as if they are polar opposites, or like Night & Day.

Damn it children. Stop driving me bat shit crazy. Keep your piss in the pot, or seriously, I'm going to make you wear your wet pants and sit on plastic for the entire day.

Just have to invest in some nose plugs. I hate the smell of urine.