Library · Using the Toilets
when the body says it is time.
A busy game, a small signal from the body, and the walk to the bathroom. Vivi turns that pause into a narrated, animated story your child stars in: noticing, telling a parent, and taking the steps one at a time.
Who it helps
For children who keep playing until it is too late, who are unsure about the toilet, or who need help with buttons, wiping or washing hands. Parents of autistic children, and of children who miss the body's signals, often use a social story like this alongside the toilet routine at home.
Nothing in the story is graphic. Clothes stay on, and the pictures show the doorway and the sink, not the toilet itself.
Noticing the signal
In the middle of play, the body says it is time. The story names that feeling so your child learns to spot it.
Telling a parent
A pause in the game and a few words: I need the toilet. The game will still be there.
One step at a time
Going in, the steps in order, and asking for help with clothes or hand washing when a step is tricky.
Back to play
Clean hands, a return to the game, and calm help if there was an accident. No blame, no fuss.
Yours, not ours. These are the moments a story like this usually walks through. You choose what goes into your child's, and read every page before it is animated.
Questions parents ask
Every day while your child is learning, at a calm moment and not right after an accident. Many parents keep it in the bedtime rotation for a few weeks, until pausing play for the toilet feels ordinary.
Yes. Tell Vivi the words you use for the body signal, which steps your child does alone and where they still need a hand. You read every page before it is animated and ask for changes in plain words.
Keep the steps the same every time, say them in the same order, and treat an accident as something to clean up together rather than a failure. A social story with your child as the main character shows that sequence calmly, as often as they need to see it.
Your first story is free in your first 30 days. After that you buy credits: 3 for $9, 10 for $26 or 30 for $66. A story is 1 credit, and a Fully Animated story is 10 more. Your first routine, Choose-Along and plan are free, then 1 credit each. Bought credits never expire.
Your first story is free. Set up your child, start from Using the Toilets, and watch it together before bed.
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Vivi Kids is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Carol Gray or Team Social Stories.
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