# This Girl’s Reason for Standing on a Toilet Seat Shocks Mum

- Link: https://stayathomemum.com.au/news-opinion/general/this-girls-reason-for-standing-on-a-toilet-seat-shocks-mum/
- Published: 2016-06-21T12:23:04+10:00
- Author: Clare Whitfield

## _When a mum asked�her daughter why she was balancing on a toilet seat, she never expected her answer._

Mum�Stacey Wehrman Feeley was surprised to see her three-year-old daughter,�Chandler,
standing on a toilet seat. She thought it was funny�at first that she took a photo
to share with her husband. However, when she asked her daughter why she was balancing
on a toilet seat, Chandler’s answer caught her off guard.

Chandler said she was�practising how to hide in a toilet stall should a shooter 
enter her preschool.

This answer caused�a feeling of unease on Ms�Feeley and she was faced with reality
that she lived in a country with gun laws so out of place�that her daughter had 
to prepare for an unimaginable doomsday at a place where she should be safe.

With this, Ms Feeley�took to social media, to bring awareness to people and demand
that the�US�use more gun sense.

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In [her post on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/stacey.w.feeley/posts/10209969511258300),
Ms Feeley also addressed US politicians to think gun control over for the future
of the children. She wrote:

> “Politicians – take a look. This is your child, your children, your grandchildren,
> your great grand children and future generations to come. They will live their
> lives and grow up in this world based on your decisions. They are barely 3 and
> they will hide in bathroom stalls standing on top of toilet seats. I do not know
> what will be harder for them? Trying to remain quiet for an extended amount of
> time or trying to keep their balance without letting a foot slip below the stall
> door?”

She also suggested how gun control can reduce crimes.

> “No one thinks gun control will be 100% crime control. But maybe, just maybe, 
> it helps 1% or 2% or 50%? Who knows unless we try?…Banning together, signing petitions,
> rallying to get your voice heard is good, but is it actually doing anything or
> just making us feel better about the current situation? We need action,” she added.

She�also questioned why anyone not in the military would need access to the type
of guns that are used in mass shootings in the US.

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> “I am not pretending to have all the answers or even a shred of them, but unless
> you want your children standing on top of a toilet, we need to do something!” 
> she said.

Ms Feeley then asks for people to share her call to action and join the Facebook
page, [Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America](https://www.facebook.com/MomsDemandAction/)“
� a community with over half a million members.

Her post has now gained more than 2,600 likes and over 6,400 shares.

Source:�[News.com.au](http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/school-life/why-this-picture-is-so-disturbing/news-story/dc5ecfe0c2485a5f23fbcd5d1b6b7f09)

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 Clare Whitfield is the Editor of Stay at Home Mum and a recognised voice in practical
home management for Australian families. Based in the northern suburbs of Sydney,
she balances editorial leadership with life as a stay at home mum to two school 
age children. Her background in home economics and more than a decade of experience
in recipe development, family budgeting, and household systems inform her work.

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