My second son asked the toilet light to be turned on as he wanted to pee. I turned it on and sat down to continue my dinner.
A few minutes later my 2-1/2 year old daughter was meekly whining. I instinctively knew. The faint echo sounded like it came from the bathroom. I had always played in my mind the danger of a child falling into the toilet bowl, getting stuck and suffocating to death. It is a good thing I always rehearsed this scene in my mind. The moment I heard my daughter whining, I knew it would be something like that the very second I heard her voice. I stood up, ran to the toilet and found her in an awkward tilted jammed to her right side position struggling to survive. I pulled her out and only then was she able to cry from fright and was able to finish her peeing.
I calmly let mommy take care of her and immediately gave an emergency talk with the nannies, not to berate them, but to tell them what had happened and that we should always jump to it when a child is whining or calling them. Usually when a child is finished pooping. And that a small child must never be left sitting in the toilet bowl all by herself.
To my daughter’s credit, it was the first time for her to try peeing by herself. Fortunately, daddy was there to save her.
Of course there are more toilet safety measures that must be discussed and addressed.