it's because you eat more as a teenager, therefore, you have to poop more.

It's because teenagers, especially teenaged boys, are full of shit.

hmmm... ya know, as a girl, i found that i actually spend a hell of a lot more time in the bathroom when i was younger. now that i'm older, i have what my mother likes to call "slammers." go figure.

When I take a dump it blasts all over the place.
It splashes water all over my a**. Once I looked down to see what my crap looked like and it splashed all over my face!!!! Can you invent some kind of gel to put in toilets so it doesnt splash all over my a**?

It's called toiletpaper, cardkid. Put it in the bowl and it'll keep the stuff from splashing. Though this doesn't work very well with me, I've heard it works well with regular, non-giant shitters.

I think that you are a clatty jake for coming onto this site. Go and eat a toilet LOOOSERS!!!

*mod note: i should've deleted this, but i'm curious...what's a clatty jake?*

The word "clatty" means dirtied or muddied. Jake? No idea.

Okay, I was super curious so thought I'd look up under slang. The word Jake as it's used in this context, I believe, is:

jake/jakey Noun. 1. A drunk, a meths drinker. Derog. [Scottish/Glasgow use?]
2. A down and out, a homeless person. Derog. [Scottish/Glasgow use?]

I'm rather more interested in the comment "go and eat a toilet." That is bringing on images of human/snake hybrids who can unhinge their jaws to swallow gigantic pieces of porcelain.

There's this to consider: when some guys reach puberty, they do other things on the toilet besides poop. Most of us guys have been there and done that.

TSV 4/30/04, LOL. Not all teenage boys go through this. As a teen I would have no more than two bowel movements per day. (If my IBS was not acting up).

My buest guess is diet. Many teenagers eat alot, and mostly junk food at that.
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Jammin' lo'flo's since 1977.

I'm on this site, therefore I must be a "clatty jake." I think I've been traumatized. As for teen taking longer, you've got bigger turds to push out. that and what TBW said (evil snicker). ;>

When I was a teen I shat at most twice a week, often only once. Far less than I do now for example.

When I was a teenager, I pooped 4 times a day myself, but that was way before I developed IBS. I always took 15-20 minutes to poop. And, unlike what TBW suggests teen boys do on the toilet, I ONLY pooped,when I was on the toilet for that time frame, and occasionally fell asleep. My friends would call after I got home from school, and this was prime pooping time for me, and I usually bee-lined it to the toilet, as soon as I walked in. What my mother used to do is acually tell any of my friends that called at that time, that I was on the toilet. Parents...she couldn't keep that part a secret, and just say I was not around.
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Bruce S.

I'm 16 and on many days I sit down to shit at school two or three times and usually have one much more significant shit as soon as I get home. The problem is that the bathrooms at school are gross and I often have to wipe pee off the seat and sometimes even toilet paper that the previous user has put down. By the time my butt hits the seat and I start pushing, the one-minute warning bell rings and I have to get my underwear and jeans up and make a run to my class. Then during the next class break, I sit down again, get a little more out and then the bell rings. It sucks even worse when all four or five stalls are taken by the time I get in. It was never as bad in elementary or middle school. Also, my girlfriend says they share some of the same concerns. She's in drama and last night excused herself after school for "Scene V", the fifth time she used the bathroom that day. Both she and I think it's the strict school rules and crowded and gross toilets that are causing the problem. We don't, however, feel the situation is going to improve any time soon.

I agree with Ian that schools offer the absolute worst in bathrooms. They suck! However, I don't believe I poop longer now that I'm a teen. At home I'll sit down and have my BM and be wiped, up and flush all within two minutes. That is the same that it was when I was in elementary school and middle school. While it sucks having to wait in line for a stall in the crowded bathrooms at school and occasionally have older girls take cuts, once I get into a stall, pull my jeans and panties down and am seated, I don't use any more time on the stool than at home. Complications, however, are that sometimes I grab for a toilet paper roll that is bare or that another girls opens the door on me because some of the latches are busted off. It might be the lines but I don't sit down until I'm holdin' it in and ready to go. Unlike Ian, I do stay on the stool even if the bell rings and when I'm honest with my teachers, I find that they are understanding. That might also be because I'm on Stu-Co and taking AP classes. It's the same with peeing: as soon as I lower my panties and place myself on the seat my flow is going. What's troubling most to me is wasting 10 minutes in line for two minutes on the stool. However, Ian has it right. Nothing's about to change. School bathrooms suck and always will.

Layla - was just the same when I was at school too! But the amazing thing is that even now - with all my years of public pooping experience, I STILL forget to check if there is TP before I poop. And as I don't go till I'm holding it in either, that can be a problem! For a few years now I've been putting two or three tissues in my pocket as a matter of course for such 'emergencies'!

Layla posts: "What's troubling most to me is waiting ten minutes in line for two minutes on the stool." I fully agree. I've waited up to 20 minutes at some concerts for my two minutes on the stool. And by the time I get into the stall, I'm more than ready to drop my panties and go. My mom says I'm "overreacting" and "immature" about some life situations, but I can't help but think that some of the time wasted by those standing and waiting in line is due to the women who are not fully prepared to do the quick sit, shit or pee. I mean I sometimes get my hopes up that I'm finally ready to unload and the user in front of me takes 5 or 10 minutes on the stool. It just doesn't seem fair. Why can't they learn to unload within two minutes like Layla and me? How can they justify the long shits and, I know this for a fact, finally leave after a long sit produces no shit? Such persons are so inconsiderate of those that really are prepared and who have waited and waited to get on the stool. Me and a friend were lost earlier this summer in an inner city neighborhood. We stopped at a fast food place to pee, get directions and get something to eat. There was a sign saying that all food and drink had to be consumed within 30 minutes and anyone staying longer (I would think without re-ordering) would be charged as loiterers. I know I would favor such a rule for public bathroom stalls. My bladder would sure appreciate it.

I agree with Standee. I don't exactly know what "loitering" is but I know that it sucks to wait for the toilet stall that doesn't open for 15 or 20 minutes because some self-centered person is misusing their privilege of using the facility. It happened to me last week at a three-stall Wal-Mart bathroom. Me and my best friend were shopping for music when I felt a crap coming on.

I went into the bathroom with a three-day crap ready to come out when I saw that I had a problem. Stall three (the closest to the end and against the wall) was not in use so I went in. There was no toilet. It had been completely removed from the wall, with only a pipe left behind to protrude. Another stall was also posted as being broken. The only other stall was occupied. I looked in and saw a girl about 11 just sitting there and not moving. I saw her shorts and underwear were at floor level and she was just sitting there without movement or noise. I waited another 10 minutes and then still no movement or noise. A.J., my friend, had to pee and my poop was ready to explode out into my pants. A.J. knocked on the door and asked the girl if she was done, and she said she didn't know because she was just sitting there killing time because she had a fight with her mother over what winter coat she wanted to buy. I guess she was just sitting and sitting to pout. I ended up having my crap in my pants and both A.J. and I had to walk across the street to the mall in order to get into a bathroom.

Now I strongly believe that if teens had a loitering rule just like Standee described, this wouldn't have been a problem. Pee or shit ASAP and then get off the pot. Think about the others.

Crappin' Cami - you did a three-day crap in your pants because some spoiled little brat was too inconsiderate to move her arse??? I've always been good at holding my crap, but if I'd been you, I'd have politely asked her to move, if that failed, told her to move, and if that failed too, I'd have crapped on the floor in one of the 'out of use' cubicles, rather than crap my pants.

But I think your last paragraph is absolutely spot on!

But in order to enforce a "loitering rule", you'd have to have open toilets or stalls with no doors, so that people could see whether you were actually using the toilet or not. Do you really want everyone else to see you having a piss/shit? I think not.

Someone - presumably a "toilet warden" of some kind - would also have to be employed to enforce the rule, which would be an extra expense.

Cami, why didn't you explain to the girl that you were about to shit your pants? (Although I'm slightly suspicious that your story might be fake. I've never *really* believed that girls actually shit. For all I know, all the "girls" on this site might in fact be men. And the freaky scat porn photos you see on joyangeles.com et al. are probably fake.)

I just found my new calling...going into the public sector...I'm gonna be a Toilet Warden!!!!

Do I get a badge and a gun? Can I turn the siren on?

Now, my friend, you are a man!

i didn't poop as a teenager. ever. i did spend a lot of time in the 3rd floor bathroom smoking cigarettes, but i NEVER pooped.

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all aboard the farty train to pooterville..if you can't shit at my house, we aren't friends

In response to Cami's comment -

As the mother of a kid that age, the child's behavior on the toilet makes me laugh. She didn't know you had to go so badly; she just knew she didn't want to wear the ghey-assed coat her mother pulled off the sale rack when mom was most likely wearing Chanel or Pierre Cardin and had forgotten how it is to have ninety percent of your winter coolness depend on what coat you had. The only thing in her universe at that point was having to spend the rest of the winter wearing a shitty coat.

Maybe if you told her how bad you had to go, she would have gotten out of the stall for a bit. I am sorry you pooped yourself, though. At that point, I'd have been tempted to crap in the broken stall!

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.....hugging bunnies since 1969
www.daphneszoo.com

(Just to clarify that I'm the same Anonymous Coward who posted above)

Allowing loitering in stalls is a necessary evil. It may be inconsiderate to other people, but it's better than the alternative - because the alternative would be to have open toilets or stalls without doors, so that people could be prevented from loitering in the stall. I'm aware that open stalls are not unknown in the US, but they're extremely rare in the UK (where I'm from) and I personally find the idea disgusting. (I'm a university student and a cadet in the OTC - roughly equivalent to your US Army ROTC - and even on military bases we have private stalls. I don't think I've ever seen a British public toilet without private stalls.) The right to privacy when crapping is ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL. Also, although I'm male, I don't use urinals (I suffer from mild urinary paruresis, so I can't piss when I know someone might be watching) so I NEED a private stall with a door, even to piss. I don't care how dirty/unhygienic the toilet is, as long as it's private.

And you would have to have a "toilet warden" of some kind to enforce a no-loitering rule, as I noted above. This is IMO a ridiculous and authoritarian idea, and it would also be an extra expense for the operators of public toilets - meaning that more toilets would have to charge people who use them. And I'm sure none of us want that.

I'm 17, and I Poo WAAAAy more that when I was younger- and it takes me longer. I probably poo 3-4 times a day.. pretty sweet..

Outside of security occasionally walking through, public toilets really have no supervision and I feel young people, especially teenagers, need occasional reminders of what's the right thing to do. Twice this past week I've made a quick trip to the mall on my lunch hour and my intent has been to do some fast shopping and by using the food court, get lunch to go that I can then take back to my office. What I've encountered in both cases are arrogant, some would say hostile teens, who are taking up stall space without regard to traffic flow and the needs of others. Several of us were waiting for a stall while this one high school-age girl just sat and sat and yapped and yapped on her cell phone. Because I was the next to use the stall, I would look in the door and see her sitting there--jeans down, underwear at stool level totally oblivious to everyone else--as she talked to her boyfriend. I believe it was the third time when I deliberately looked in the door and made eye contact, she stopped the conversation and asked "What's your problem?". I told her the line was getting longer. Her response: "Dah"! About 5 minutes later she vacated and brushed by me mumbling that I was an old *****. (I'm 44). There was a piece of crap about an inch long in the bowl that she didn't flush. I peed and was out of there in 2 minutes. In the 2nd situation, my weight was also extra long and when I peeked in on the girl who was probably about 12 or 13, she was just sitting there with no bodily movement at all and no noise of any bodily functions being transacted. Finally, after the second time I peeked in on her, she cursed and abruptly got up, slammed the door open and left without wiping, flushing or anything. I wonder if some of these teens are using the toilets just for hanging out or as a replacement for the mall bench.

I have a stepson who has had very bad bowel habits since he was a little boy - he was 6 when I first had to clean up the overflow in his undies. He has seen every professional possible, had all the physio possible. I would like to reinforce that he does not soil his pants if he is reminded to go to the toilet every day. This is now getting a touch tiresome at 14 years old! What do we do now he is this age? Numerous health professionals are now shaking their head because physically there is nothing wrong, emotionally we have issues due to the usual split family disasters which he does get help for. If there is anything you can add to help us it would be very much appreciated....

Make him clean himself up, do his own laundry, and not let him watch tv or be on the computer until it's done?

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.....hugging bunnies since 1969
www.daphneszoo.com

This seems like an attention-getting mechanism. I lived nextdoor to this kid (though he was much younger than 14) who had a neglectful mother living in one house and a doting father living in another. His father spent all the time in the world with his son, until the boy was old enough for school. Suddenly one day he discovered that if he messed in his pants he'd be sent home and spend the rest of the day with his father. It soon got to the place where he pissed and/or shat himself on almost a daily basis and his father never punished him. It was one thing when he was five and in kindergarten. This got to be a whole other problem when he was STILL doing it in the second grade. I have not seen this kid since 2002, but if his parents hold to their record, he is probably still doing it today. (Which is disturbing, because he's probably about thirteen.)

I agree with Daphne. Your stepson needs to be given some consequences for his actions. Obviously this problem has been going on for some time. However, at fourteen he needs to start learning some adult habits. Emotional problems or not, it may be a cruel case of letting the other fourteen-year-olds handle him. He'll stop VERY quickly!

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Born right the first time.

As a high-school teacher I am around teenagers a lot; in our small school there is no separate faculty restroom, so I use whatever boys' room I am near when I have to go. On rare occasions a boy won't (or can't) flush, so I actually see a teenager's bowel products (no idea whose, of course--I'm never there at dropping time because I'm teaching class). From my own teenage years I still remember dropping some whoppers, and after yesterday I can testify that they still do. After 6th period (mid-afternoon) I visited a restroom and in a stall found a trophy (i.e., a movement someone had left for others to see). This was a set of 5-6 turds, the longest being at least a foot, with a couple of 4- or 5-inchers and some little ones, not very thick, but filling the bowl. I flushed it; it went down easily but left skidmarks.

After school I had to poop, so I went back, and I noticed that one of the toilets was clogged--no poop to see, but definitely clogged. I chose the other one, had my b.m., flushed it, and went back to the clogged one. Since the janitorial crew is short staffed, we faculty members are expected to do our part to minimize mess and clutter; therefore, I thought I would go ahead and flush to see if the clog would clear. I flushed it, and the toilet coughed up three very large solid turds, at least 6-8" by 1.5" each, and sent them careening around the bowl before the water crept perilously close to the rim. The water level slowly fell, taking the paper, but not the poop, with it. When all had settled, the turds were in a fairly neat formation near the hole, so I flushed again. That toilet is rather weak, so it was a half-hearted effort, but the poop went down. The resulting high water was still a turbid grayish-brown, but at least had no poop swirling in it. Skid-marks galore, but the toilet was now usable. However, the main point was that these EPODs (End Products of Digestion) were enormous and undoubtedly from teenage boys, so the tradition of huge b.m.'s from teens continues.

God damnit! I thought my comment was deleted on another thread for some reason... Again, where's my Alzheimer's medicine? I know I put it around here somewhere...

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Born right the first time.

As a teen myself I find that us teens tend to produce around a foot of fecal matter per day. Although I have to agree that for some of us our poop smells real bad. I've seen the digested remains from quite a few of my friends before and I can testify to that.