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PLEASE: don't let your boys pee on the trees at the playground
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Anonymous
| I have seen this happen a couple times at Turtle Park. Will never go back. Seriously, use the bathrooms or go somewhere private. Just because we are parents doesn't mean we "understand" your kid has to urinate. It's rude. How would you feel if my husband came and pee'd on the bush in your yard? |
Anonymous
| I just saw a mom have her little boy do this at Norwood yesterday. Ick. |
Anonymous
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It would be really helpful if these parks had attendants there so the bathrooms were open when they were busy. However, when DC Parks and Recs do not staff the parks on weekends etc, there isn't much choice.
Not sure what the issue at Norwood would be since there are porta-johns there. |
Anonymous
I don't visit parks where there aren't accessible restrooms. And porta johns don't cut it with a toddler! I agree - peeing in public is disgusting and if you are really in an emergency situation, the least anyone can do is be private and courteous. |
Anonymous
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What is going on with this Turtle Park????
First, a witness who saw a nanny treating a child questionably, now boys peeing on trees...what gives? |
Anonymous
| My son really likes to pee in the out door areas. It is a phase. In terms of germs, human urine has few. There are just as many or more germs from deer or dog pee, and there is a lot more of that waiting at the park for your kids every morning. |
Anonymous
| Very few of the parks that we frequent in Montgomery County have accessible bathroom facilities - and at places like Candy Cane City in Chevy Chase, they have bathrooms but lock them for unimaginable reasons. When they're aren't other options, I have no problem with little boys peeing on trees as long there is an effort to be discrete and avoid areas where kids are playing. I only wish it were easier for girls to do too! |
Anonymous
How do you know it is a phase? Men are trained that it is okay. That is why there are all too frequently men peeing in the alley behind my house. |
Anonymous
| This is why I have a potty chair in my SUV cargo hold. When DS3 (or God forbid, even DD6) has to go, doing the pee pee dance at the park, I am so glad I have a clean seat for him to use! Even road trips, this is so useful. |
Anonymous
| The bathrooms are often closed. It is difficult to find somewhere private nearby that is not private property. Your husband is not the same as a small child. A tree in Turtle Park is not the same as a bush in my yard. Urine is sterile. No one does this as a first choice. I say live with it. |
Anonymous
The second my little boy learned that the could pee standing up and was ready to even begin to think about ditching diapers, I had a public pee-er on my hands. It's definitely a phase, and you can steer them to proper places when you can and teach them how to be a polite citizen. However, a toddler who suddenly announces with urgency "I have to pee!!" while grabbing his crotch while very new to wearing underwear in public gets some leeway in my mind. Then he'll go through the phase where he will head towards and appropriate place while in the act of removing his drawers in public. I guess I won't even start with the trip to Manhatten we took when he was three and I had him pee in a Starbucks cup in an emergency. |
Anonymous
| Face it. If you were two or three and discovered you had a penis that would let you pee whereever, you'd do it too. |
Anonymous
| And while you're at it? Make sure the birds dont poop, or the ducks, and for sure, make sure everyone picks up their dog poop while at the park. Thanks! |
Anonymous
LOL. If there's no place else to go, what do people expect kids to do? Like the PPs said, urine is sterile. Really no big deal. |
Anonymous
Ditto. |