Umm yeah well your interrupting and …well …prolonging… also mom of boys …he’s def not watching YouTube in there 
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Take the lock off the door, whenever anyone needs the loo and his in there open the door and walk straight in, it will put him off doing anything else and he may look to his own bedroom for the privacy 
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I would like to note my hubby takes almost this long… and it’s not good… it’s very bad habits to sit there so long because it could cause issues with the bowel… in particular haemorrhoids. So much so that they could bleed a lot each time he goes and look at needing surgery… perhaps you could send him to a Women’s and mens health Physio to learn about proper bowel habits and what could happen if he sits too long…
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Put snappers under the toilet seat so when he sits down it scares the life out of him, he might end up rushing out the bathroom😂
No phone in the bathroom, showers are timed at 10 minutes…
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Will someone tell my husband that this is not supposed to happen. 
this isn’t normal for men?! Because my friends and I all have the same thing happening with our husbands
Also, charge rent, but save it for him. I started charging my son rent at 18. $300 a month. I put it up to save it for him. When he turned 20 it went to $600. And it’ll go up to $1,200 at 22 because if he can afford to pay me that it is time for him to get his own place. He will be able to furnish it, and his money will be sitting there for anytime he falls behind. But a family of 5 with 1 bathroom is going to be frustrating no matter what.
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Give him a deadline to get his own place. This is ridiculous.I would forbid him use of the bathroom until everyone else is finished.
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get another bathroom
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Get him a flesh light
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I don’t reckon it’s only his phone he is playing with…
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At 17 it is to late to teach him to respect others.
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Phones not allowed in bathrooms
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Us growing up we are a family of 5 one guy my dad, 3 girls, and my mom. We all had to share the one bathroom in the house. We had time limits of 15 to shower and in the morning we had to divide up a 2 hour time frame among 4 people. Which meant for me i could shower in the morning if i was fast but i normally showered at night or when I got home. If someone was showering the toilet was available to use. We understood that you have to pee and its insensitive to make someone hold it. But back then there were no cell phones. So definitely have a hard talk about this to him. If he wants the bathroom his phone is not allowed, plus in the morning he should know that everyone needs to go, so he gets 5 minutes to do his job. If not then be prepared to get walked in on. Also give him a time limit on the shower 15 minutes but showers are to be done after everyone goes pee in the morning. My sister took to hogging the bathroom and my dad told her she gets 20 minutes to do her job. Well she kept goin over her time limit with the door locked. My dad took out the lock one day and she screamed when we walked in on her. She learned to hurry up after that.
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I believe he’s jacking off… would make sense why he hops in shower. Yeah he’s at that age. But ur pregnant. That ain’t right. To be locked in the bathroom when u need the bathroom often. N a house full of people during peak hours when everyone is home… no respect…
Or doing drugs.
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My grandson did this I told him no more phone in the bathroom there are 8 ppl in the house when he comes there is 1 bathroom
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Wow build another bathroom or get place with 2 bathrooms but grow up
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This should be an easy one…no phones allowed in the bathroom. Period. No exceptions. And stand firm!
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Met guys take their time in the loo ! Get your hubby to break the lock and just barge in or someone I know got a biggggg cup of cold water jack flashed the door open, and thru the water on him ( make sure when it happens someone’s taking pics or a video, lol for black mail) lol probly won’t happen happen again or buy him a port a potty…
No phones in the bathroom for all so he’s not the only one. Second if he don’t have respect now he never have them in the future. Unless he wants to change that behavior.
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Make him wait. Show him how it feels. Little arse.
Just keep busting in on him everyday he’ll change
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Yall who say no phones in the bathroom wouldnt survive in my grandparents house theres a rule you have to take your phone with you cause the door was broke no matter how much it was fixed the handles would randomly pop out and youd be stuck inside and when youre upstairs everyone in down stairs oe outside they cant hear you yelling to let you out so youd have to call the house phone or text someone to help you get out and that bathroom was a sauna in the summer its an older house. Talk to your son maybe hes having stomach problems or hes affraid of people not respecting privacy in his own room and just walking in if hes in the middle of taking care of himself be open maybe hes insecure about what hes doing, if he tells you its because hes taking care of himself get mad just make a deal with him and make a sign for his bedroom door “Knock before entering wait for the verbal okay” alot of teens get embarressed about taking care of them selves like that but just me personally i think its better that and asking for a toy then some one getting something they cant sure or a pregnancy they cant afford or handle cause everyone knows even with birth controls and condoms none of it is 100% accidents happen.
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Simple solution. No phone in the bathroom. If it continues start walking in on him.
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Told My stepson play/ jack off in his dam room , my water bill actually went up only like $20 but it was bc he taking hr long shower 
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He doesn’t need the phone in the bathroom. Make it a rule. Then sit him down and talk to him about manners & consideration
Time to get a pee pot. I feel sorry for his future wife. My husband takes 45 minutes in the bathroom too.
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He needs to learn to share. Take his phone away if he doesn’t stop being greedy.
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get a pay toilet that needs new quarters every 5 minutes or the toilet sinks into the floor… LOLOLOLOL yeah… I should write scifi… fiction
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He is 17 he is finding him self
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Let the boy masturbate in peace
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No phone is a good start. If that doesn’t work send dad in to grab a hand full of hair and hall him out by it. If you don’t believe in corporal punishment start charging him rent now to include an increase every time he abuses his time in the bathroom. It’s your house, not his. Own it.
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Lol. I have a 16yr old an all that time in the bathroom is not just sitting on the phone🤣. Boy mom problems.
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Teaching him consideration at this point in his life you’re doing it a little late it should have been done long time ago you are his problem.
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Really? Your punishing your son for your lack of birth control. Get a house with 2 bathrooms. Then you mention charging rent. What if he wants to continue with school?
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That’s really sad on your part. He could have issues with constipation or ibs. Not everyone can poop in 5 minutes.
Give him a dose of what goes around comes around.
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I could have wrote this with my son. He will spend up to an hour a time in there uses all the toilet roll then spend half hour in the shower. That’s with out an hour in the 2 or 3 times a day on top. The shortest time he does is 15 mins. Wouldn’t be so bad but we only have the one bathroom!
I wouldn’t allow phone in the bathroom. That’s rude
I used to go in the shower for 45 minutes and sit there just to get some peace from my family, my dad threatened to shut off the water multiple times but I got my damn peace!
He ain’t playing with his phone 
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Does he have a private room??? Other than the BR?
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Poor lady was asking for advice, yall bashed her. I’m sure she will have PPD. I have 3 boys and know this is not a response I’d like.
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If you have a secluded yard tell him he can take all the time he wants on a pop-up camping potty.
Or make it really awkward and ask him if he is having problems pooping, make a doctors appointment lol
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Get one of those portable toilets and put it in his room. Then he can take all the time he needs. Get a bigger house? Idk
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I agree with not allowing the phone in there with him. I would honestly have a sit down embarrassing conversation about whether he is shitting for 45 mins or Masterbating. Be stern and real with him about it and tell him there are other people in the house and that if this behavior continues…then when he is 18 he has 1 month to move out. That’s how it works in the real world when you get evicted. Until his 18th birthday…charge him rent and put the money aside for him to move.
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Take his phone away, he doesn’t like it he can go to work and pay for it himself.
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You pay the mortgage limit his bathroom to 10 mins and shower to 1/2 hr. If he doesn’t like it tell him to move out. As you are paying the mortgage, water, electricity ect ect ! You are the parent he does not make the rules ! If he can’t be considerate of others he needs to move !
This is typical for teens especially boys.
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When he gets in the shower and is in too long, go turn on hot water in kitchen leaving it run or the cold water. Either way he will get all cold or hot water. Should speed him up!
He’s 17 and he is a boy. What do u think he is doing in the bathroom?
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He is rude, selfish and has zero regard for others who live in the home. At 18, he needs a job and to pay rent as well. At 18 in our house, the only way to get out of paying rent at 18 is to work part time and go to school full time or work full time and go to school part time. At 18, the parents no longer have responsibility for an 18 year old, unless there are extenuating circumstances such as a disability of some sort. In our house, 300.00 is monthly rent, end of story. I will not argue this, nor will someone try to guilt trip me for this. We have 7 kids. 6 are full grown adults, 5 paid rent and eventually moved out when they were ready. All 6 are productive contributing members of society as well. All are parents and doing well. Enforcing the thought of responsibility on grown kids is not harmful, it is actually helpful.
Honestly when I still lived at home under my parents roof if I didnt follow the rules they would go online and shit my phone service off for about a week at a time, taught me real quick to follow rules
Have you tried swearing and giving him a hiding ? Usually works
See what he’s looking at on phone he may be doing something else Jeremy Beyer is right
Tell him if he wants his time alone maybe you should get your own place
Have a family meeting and bring forward a schedule, anyone not keeping to the schedule will pay a fine. Taking pocket money, phone taken away, no tv time, extra chores. You are the parent after all and they living in your house. Your rules apply or leave!!
Hes playing more than his guitar .typical
My husband does this and drives me nuts!
Teenage boys will be teenage boys. Phone on the potty or shave gel in the shower.
I’d say it should be that NO ONE can take a phone in the bathroom, shower times are limited for everyone, let him have a lock on his door and consider the addition of another bathroom with that many people.
If you have the room build another bathroom and install one of those real time use monitors and tell him he has to pay for the time he’s in the bathroom and let him know he needs to get a job or drop him off at the local shelter.