We’ve had a stool in front of each of our shower room sinks for so long that I can hardly remember life without them. I’m regularly sliding them out of my way with my foot, have banged my toes on them a lot more than once, and am counting down the days until my younger child is old enough to reach the sink without a step stool.
Scarlett’s a petite little thing, plus she potty trained before she was two, which indicates that when she first began needing to wash her hands “by mah seff,” she couldn’t even reach the sink with your basic toddler stool. So for about two years, we had this charming folding apparatus in front of the sinks in both our guest shower room and the kids’ bathroom.
My son, two-and-three-quarter years older, could get the job made with just a little improve from one of these babies.
No stool, no independence in the bathroom, which is one of the parenting milestones I genuinely appreciate. You parents of little ones can probably only imagine the day your child says, “I’ll be ideal back,” and then returns moments later with an empty bladder, a clean behind, and washed hands. It is genuinely magical.
At restaurants, airports, and retail stores, shower room usage involves an awkward hoisting up of child to sink. (Usually followed by complaints of, “You’re smashing me into the counter!”)Â So, when we go to visit my parents, I very much appreciate that a shower room stool has been made available by them. Heather even travels with one, when they go by car, of course, because hotel room bathrooms don’t typically offer a stool. (That’s why she likes this little stool, which folds flat.)
What basic tools do you find helpful every day? have you equipped your parents’ houses with them?
Related: When I painted a individualized stool, or maybe “un-painted” it