The Toughest Job

Toddlers + Toilet Roll = Trouble

You know that cute little Andrex puppy, the one that pulls the toilet paper off the roll and drags it around the house. Well it has nothing on a toilet training toddler!

As soon as they have worked out how to get the toilet roll off the holder you've had it. The toilet roll will be wrapped around the house and then flushed down the toilet before you realise what's happening. The way I found to get around this is to use a chunky old wooden toilet roll holder that has a knob on one end that screws into the wooden dowel the loo roll sits on. This holds it all in place and the little darlings can't figure out how to get the loo roll off the holder (unless they spot you replacing the roll!)

The only problem with this design of holder is that they can spin the toilet roll round, and the faster they spin it, the faster the toilet paper gathers in a pile on the floor. So what do you do?

Squash the loo roll flat before you put it on the holder. That way when they try to spin the roll, it stops after half a turn, leaving them with a measly 1 piece of paper. They soon lose interest!