PLEASE: don't let your boys pee on the trees at the playground

[Anonymous]

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.


[i]Purchase the portable potty. Keep it in a large ziploc bag in your backpack or trunk. Show some respect for your community and teach your child manners.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do people consider it okay for a little boy to pull his penis out and pee on a tree but do not consider it okay for a little girl to take a squat somewhere similar when she "needs to go"?

I think both are fine.

[Anonymous]

Does the visual of the situation matter? Taking your child to a secluded corner of the park, facing away from the playground and other park users and preferably behind that bush or tree isn't ideal, but at least it's discreet. And, for those of us who don't consider any kind of bodily excrement to be "sterile", it's not front and center in the areas where people are likely to sit down and have a picnic or something. To me, that's far more acceptable than my initial image which was the child just "dropping trou" at the big ole' oak tree in the middle of the park where everyone can see.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does the visual of the situation matter? Taking your child to a secluded corner of the park, facing away from the playground and other park users and preferably behind that bush or tree isn't ideal, but at least it's discreet. And, for those of us who don't consider any kind of bodily excrement to be "sterile", it's not front and center in the areas where people are likely to sit down and have a picnic or something. To me, that's far more acceptable than my initial image which was the child just "dropping trou" at the big ole' oak tree in the middle of the park where everyone can see.

I have to say I agree with this, even though the fundamentals don't change. It's more the attitude of "I can excrete anywhere I like" that is particularly offensive.

[Anonymous]

I do think some people are over-reacting a bit here. When some little kids say they need to go, they need to go NOW -- not 5 minutes from now. It is just pee. You are not going to catch any diseases from pee. I have no problem with a little boy or little girl going off to a secluded spot (although some parks don't have many of these) to pee. Would I rather they pee in a bathroom? Yes. But that is not always an option. I also think there is a difference though between a 3 year old peeing in a park and a 7 or 9 year old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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?

I'd wonder why you married a 3 year-old who's just potty trained and is new to wearing underwear. Seriously, friend. I don't have an SUV to tote a potty in (and I don't drive everywhere anyway), and many parks don't have bathrooms, so if necessary I take my son to a secluded corner of the park where he can pee in privacy rather than wet his pants. If you somehow see that as similar to your husband peeing on a bush in my yard, I think that says more about you than it does about my newly potty trained 3 year old.

[Anonymous]

Hey - little girls can pee on the trees too. I saw it happen the other day at my park. So not a big deal.

I don't have an SUV to tote a potty in (and I don't drive everywhere anyway), and many parks don't have bathrooms, so if necessary I take my son to a secluded corner of the park where he can pee in privacy rather than wet his pants.

Check out the potette link someone posted above. That thing is small and you definitely don't need an SUV to tote it around! When I'm walking to the park, I can easily put it in the basket under my stroller. It folds up - very lightweight and small.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm more appalled by the parent who wrote that s/he'd just dump out their potty on the street. WTF??

Are you going to drive around with pee sloshing around in your car?

If you don't like pee sloshing around in your car, what makes you think we like it splattered on the street? Carry a baggie and line your potty with it. I don't like trash in my car either, but I don't just dump it on the street. I put it in a bag and dispose it in an appropriate place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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?

Don't forget the recent rash of car thefts!

[Anonymous]

I'd wonder why you married a 3 year-old who's just potty trained and is new to wearing underwear. Seriously, friend. I don't have an SUV to tote a potty in (and I don't drive everywhere anyway), and many parks don't have bathrooms, so if necessary I take my son to a secluded corner of the park where he can pee in privacy rather than wet his pants. If you somehow see that as similar to your husband peeing on a bush in my yard, I think that says more about you than it does about my newly potty trained 3 year old

PP, you made my day!

The "pottette" is ridiculous. Waste of a plastic bag, and a false sense of properness and sterility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I'd wonder why you married a 3 year-old who's just potty trained and is new to wearing underwear. Seriously, friend. I don't have an SUV to tote a potty in (and I don't drive everywhere anyway), and many parks don't have bathrooms, so if necessary I take my son to a secluded corner of the park where he can pee in privacy rather than wet his pants. If you somehow see that as similar to your husband peeing on a bush in my yard, I think that says more about you than it does about my newly potty trained 3 year old

PP, you made my day!

The "pottette" is ridiculous. Waste of a plastic bag, and a false sense of properness and sterility.

Thanks for saying so! Just can't imagine myself telling my son to pee into a "pottette" when I own a T-shirt that says, "Plastic bags blow." The irony would be too much for me!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm more appalled by the parent who wrote that s/he'd just dump out their potty on the street. WTF??

Are you going to drive around with pee sloshing around in your car?

If you don't like pee sloshing around in your car, what makes you think we like it splattered on the street? Carry a baggie and line your potty with it. I don't like trash in my car either, but I don't just dump it on the street. I put it in a bag and dispose it in an appropriate place.

I guess you had better tell all the rats not to pee in the street too. Perhaps they can help you fill up the landfills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Really? I don't have a penis so I wouldn't know

[Anonymous]

You're right! It's much better to have human waste on the street, rather than trying to contain it. Let me know what street you live on, so my kid can use it as a potty. That way, we won't waste all that water when we flush the toilet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Amen to the last three PP. Give me a break people. Just because a 3 y.o. pees on a tree doesn't necessarily mean that he's going to grow up to pee in your alley!

True, but I don't want to see it.