**I received samples of the below mentioned product in order to complete a review. This is also a paid post**
My son took a long time to get fully potty trained but we finally made it. He is fully potty trained and was able to start preschool this year. Still he needs help with some aspect like cleaning himself properly, reminders to wash hands, and lifting the toilet seat when he has to go number 1.
The Shandle toilet seat handle is a simple handle to attach to your toilet seat that makes it easier for little ones to lift the seat up and keeps them from touchy the germy seat. For me, living in a house with 4 males, trust me the seat is germy. There’s some nasty grime that won’t come off on the under part of the seat no matter what I try.
I got to choose 2 different designs. I let my 4 yr old pick one then I chose one. I chose the seahorse design while my son chose the Robot design.
I first applied the seahorse one to the toilet in my basement. The kids, especially my youngest son, use this one a lot during the day, I guess because it’s more convenient. The Shandle was easy to apply with a a sticky strip on the handle itself. You simply stick it to the underside of the toilet seat, apply pressure for 30 seconds, and they recommend waiting at least 24 hours before using. I imagine that might be a hard thing in a house if there’s only one bathroom. Luckily we have two working toilets in the house.
I did have an issue with the upstairs toilet though. The underside of the toilet seat has a slightly concave shape. I attempted to apply the Robot Shandle to that one. I realized as I was applying pressure that the seat was concave and the center of the sticky strip wasn’t going to stay. sure enough the first time I lifted the seat the handle fell off. I tried reapply and even sitting on the seat with the lid down to apply more pressure hoping it would help it to stick in the center of the sticky strip. No such luck. After trying to apply it a few times the sticky strip started loosing it’s stickiness and wouldn’t stick at all anymore.
I tried to show the gap in the center because of the shape of the underseat but the gap is so small it’s hard to show. It was enough though that the handle would not stick. The one in the basement has been working fine through many uses. the underseat is also completely flat too.
lol my son demonstrating on the toilet in the basement. He was not super enthused about me taking this picture
I think this is a great tool to help little ones become more independent with potty training. My only advice is to make sure that underneath your toilet seat is flat before ordering.
You can get a 3 pack of The Shandle on their website: http://theshandle.com/ for $9.99
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It’s pretty cool what things that they come up with! Love the idea of not having to touch the toilet with their hands and maybe getting germs on them!
this is great, I’m going to tell my son and his wife about it, they are trying to potty train their son.