Your Mama Hates Cleaning up Pee

Ever since my three-year-old started peeing standing up instead of sitting on a baby potty, I’ve been dealing with his aim issues.  Or, more specifically, his absolute refusal to even try to aim.  Let’s just say he requires my assistance.

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Which is getting old.

I considered getting a child-sized urinal, but it seemed like that would be a step backwards when really he should just be learning to go on his own.  When I heard about the Flippee, I contacted them and offered to test it out on my son.  We received ours last month and I’ve been trying it since.

The Flippee is a shield that converts a regular toilet into a urinal-of-sorts.

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It can be used as a potty training tool, but for our purposes it serves as a way to avoid messes. (Like pee all over the wall behind the toilet, all over the floor, all over the cabinet, and all over the toilet tank.)

Unfortunately, the Flippee did not fit on the toilet in the bathroom my son uses.  It did fit in the “grownup” bathroom and thanks to the subtlety of the design, it doesn’t look awful on our toilet.  It isn’t a perfect fit though, so when my son uses it, he still has a gap where pee can shoot up at the toilet tank.  Which is a real bummer.  I think the Flippee would probably work perfect as long as you have a slender run of the mill toilet.  Ours are slightly embellished or something.

Pros:

• Ease of use. My three-year-old son can lift it easily on his own.
• It isn’t ugly.
• It’s easy to install and easy to remove.
• Can be had for a little under $20.

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Cons:

• Paint Your Wagon hd
• Dead & Buried divx
• While the pee doesn’t drip down onto the floor when the Flippee is in the “resting” position, it does end up congealing all over the back of the Flippee, which still requires maintenance.  In other words, it doesn’t rid your life completely off pee-cleaning.
• Doesn’t fit all toilets.

Here’s my son demonstrating his ability to lift and lower the Flippee:

I would recommend this if your son is constantly messing up the bathroom or if you’re training a boy to pee standing up and the whole aim for the Cheerios thing isn’t working.  For the messes and pee drying on the inside of the Flippee, I mix some Oxi-Clean with water in a spray bottle and hit the pee areas with it a few times a week. You can put it in the “up” position and spray like crazy, and that should do it.

We don’t use ours that often since it doesn’t fit the other toilet and my son can’t take his pants off on his own yet.  So by the time I’m yanking his pants down for him it’s easier for me to just assist him in doing his business.  I’m hoping we get more use out of it when he gets less lazy about taking his own pants off.  If the Flippee worked in his bathroom we’d definitely use it more.  I’m disappointed that our toilets weren’t compatible.

You can purchase a Flippee at Flippee.com.  You may want to contact their customer service ahead of time if you’re not sure your toilet will work!

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About the author:  Maria is surrounded by boys. She gets all aflutter when she finds good deals, new episodes of Gossip Girl, and big bold bottles of red wine. Read more from this author.