Toddlers peeing in public.

Buzzybee90

Mankysteve wrote: »

You should only stop on hard shoulder in a emergency. Needing a wee isn't one of theming fact it would traffic offence

Sorry, I just meant a big road.

gayleygoo

It's not disgusting at all for a small child to wee somewhere rather than wet themselves, which is much more embarrassing for the poor child. My kids have wee'd in random places, although I try to make sure as far as possible that they are quite hidden, and up a tree or in a bush/grassy area is better than on the street where it will pool and make a mess.... but parents don't always have those choices available to them!

My DS needed the loo badly when he was two and a bit, (5 minutes after we'd left the house of course), and needed to go "NOW!!" There were only two shops on the road into town - the first, a charity shop, which wouldn't let him use theirs. I nearly let him go round the side of the shop, but then tried the other one - a bathroom showroom - who were happy to let him go use their staff loo. Although they explained that they get a lot of children in there walking around with their parents who suddenly need the loo, and it's better to offer them a proper toilet than have them go in one of the displays, which has happened :rotfl:

1trainer1

its not disgusting but a bit of discretion is always appreciated.

I saw a dad stop his car and get his son out and let him have a pee on a side street as I was walking with my wife and said to her 2 mins down the road is a morrisons and the other way is a sainsburys.

he was in a car and driving so that is laziness in my book.

Person_one

LilElvis wrote: »

It is a plastic frame with fold out legs. It has "nappy sack" type bags with an absorbent pad in the bottom to absorb urine which you hook over the potty and then tie the handles together after use.

No I don't pour urine on the floor. No I don't put the bag in a public bin.

I put the bag inside an old supermarket carrier (kept with potty) as extra protection. I then dispose of it in a nappy/sanitary bin or take it home.

Hopefully this is explanation enough to satisfy you that I am not totally ignorant and ill-mannered.

Considering that most streets are regularly covered in cat, dog, fox, rat and bird urine, that seems like a lot of gaff to go to to protect the concrete from a bit of harmless toddler wee!

Person_one

1trainer1 wrote: »

its not disgusting but a bit of discretion is always appreciated.

I saw a dad stop his car and get his son out and let him have a pee on a side street as I was walking with my wife and said to her 2 mins down the road is a morrisons and the other way is a sainsburys.

he was in a car and driving so that is laziness in my book.

2 minutes in the car, then parking up, then getting child out of car seat and into the shop, them into the loo, into the cubicle and ready to go would have been a lot longer than 2 minutes, and definitely enough time for a bursting child to have an accident.

LilElvis

Person_one wrote: »

Considering that most streets are regularly covered in cat, dog, fox, rat and bird urine, that seems like a lot of gaff to go to to protect the concrete from a bit of harmless toddler wee!

I've actually never had to use it in the street, but it is very useful on long journeys/walks and where toilets may not be within easy reach.

Or would you rather that:

I let her have a poo in the middle of a beach?

Let her out of the car in the middle of the Kruger Park (look on YouTube if you want to learn what lunacy this would be)?

Maybe that would be fine with you, but I think most people would rather I use the travel potty.

notanewuser

LilElvis wrote: »

I've actually never had to use it in the street, but it is very useful on long journeys/walks and where toilets may not be within easy reach.

Or would you rather that:

I let her have a poo in the middle of a beach?

Let her out of the car in the middle of the Kruger Park (look on YouTube if you want to learn what lunacy this would be)?

Maybe that would be fine with you, but I think most people would rather I use the travel potty.

I didn't think they let toddlers into Kruger......... but an adult relative did empty their catheter bag several times at various points when we were there!

We've pulled over for DD to go in the back of the car a few times, or she's used it at the side of the car with the doors open. She did have to use it once while we were at Aldi - it was the first week of potty training so I didn't have much choice. I did make sure we were in a corner with the trolley shielding everyone from the activity - that one was just a wee and was contained within the bag. She also had a skirt on.

sulkisu

Thanks for the replies. I have to confess to being one of those 'disgusting, inappropriate' parents who would rather have them pee outside than have an accident. DS1 is 3 and thankfully this has only happened once. Fortunately I go out armed with a couple paper cups in my handbag, so that he can pee in the cup, especially when using public toilets. We went into a corner and then I poured it down the drain afterwards. Not ideal but better than wet pants and trousers.

Janepig

DS is one of those children for whom the world is his toilet. I used to pretend he wasn't with me for many years at the school - I lost him once when I was picking DD up from her (cabin) classroom, only to find him peeing up against the side of the main school building . There's a small field outside the school with a single tree in the middle, it was a sapling when he started there, it's now like a giant redwood because of the number of times he's peed up against it when my back's been turned. At least he used to just pull the front of his trousers down a little bit, enough to get his bits over his waistband - my cousin's boy peed against "the tree" once, but took his trousers and pants down to his ankles to do so, bare @rse to the world!!

He's 8 now so doesn't do it as often, but up until recently there was a corner of the rugby field where he trains which was like a communal toilet, once one of them went, they'd all be over there, happy as Larry, peeing away together!

DD's most embarrassing moment was when she was about five and we were at the till in Asda - "Mammy I need the toilet", me "two minutes while I pay and then we'll go". Next thing, this huge puddle starts appearing at her feet and getting larger and larger, people started stepping away and I had to whisper "my daughter's just peed all over the floor" to the man on the till. "Cleaner to till 14", oh the shame!

Jx

Savvy_Sue

1trainer1 wrote: »

I saw a dad stop his car and get his son out and let him have a pee on a side street as I was walking with my wife and said to her 2 mins down the road is a morrisons and the other way is a sainsburys.

he was in a car and driving so that is laziness in my book.

But he may not have known where he was, or that he was near a supermarket.

Person_one wrote: »

2 minutes in the car, then parking up, then getting child out of car seat and into the shop, them into the loo, into the cubicle and ready to go would have been a lot longer than 2 minutes, and definitely enough time for a bursting child to have an accident.

Precisely! They go from 'fine, don't need one' to desperate in the blink of an eye!

Mine seem to have cast iron bladders now they're grownups, but when we're with their grandparents I often find myself suggesting that one of them should 'just try' if Granddad heads off towards the loo, he can't always find his way back to us (dementia), and they understand that what I'm REALLY asking is that they should go and check up on him!