Flushing Fascination

We're having a problem at the Birdie house hold. It's been an issue for over a year now and I do not know what we are going to do about it.

My children each have their own issues with flushing the toilet.

My 4 year old, Little Red, refuses to flush. He will not flush pee, poop, paper, anything. Just leaves it there as a nice little prize for the next person to find. He's not scared to do it, he just doesn't think about it or cares to. I don't know, maybe he's a lazy flusher? I've seen the boy pee, as far as boy's are concerned he's a pretty lazy pee'er. He just stands there - not holding the hose if you will, and just stands on his tip toes to make sure it goes in the bowl. The hubbie says he's gifted.

Blondie on the other hand is an over flusher. He flushes at least three times, I'm assuming to make sure it all goes down. He flushes before he goes (maybe his brother has been there, I don't know) and then again after..a couple of times. We've talked to him about it - reminding him that we pay the water bill and refilling the tank costs money, etc. But, in the grand scheme of things, I'd rather an overflusher.

Now the little monster...that's a whole other story. The Little Monster likes to flush stuff down the toilet. She isn't a friend of the potty - she prefers to pee and crap on herself in a nice pretty princess pull up. But, oh, the joy it gives her to watch her brother's hot wheel get flushed away to eternity. She also rips the limbs off of most of her dolls and loads the toilet full of them. I've been startled more than once by the blank stare of a bald baby's head bobbing lifelessly in the toilet.

And you really haven't lived until you've pulled in the driveway to find your husband in the front yard with not one but TWO toilets, trying to unclog whatever is in them. (Why call a plumber when your husband can screw it up first?) Doesn't toilet work constitute backyard work? One would think so, but not to this man. This man prefers the front yard and makes it even more fun when he forces the kids to each stick their hand down the bowel to try and dislodge the item creating the blockage. "It's the only thing small enough" is what he says. We've replaced two toilets in our marriage lifetime...all because of Little Monster.

Currently we've had the following items flushed: balled up sock, doll parts, hot wheels, Lego's (the big one, not little ones), hair brush, and my personal favorite a feminine product still folded neatly in it's packaging. And he tried blaming that one on me...