Boys pissing in the wind

[Anonymous]

The 3 playgrounds we visit most don't have bathrooms, there are no bathrooms within a five-minute walk, and I am not about to start carrying around a travel potty (nor a plastic bag of urine). DS will pee on a bush or tree and guess what? Nobody cares. You prudes can shove off. Stay home and watch your IPads.

[Anonymous]

Brandi Glanville, anyone?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our soccer coach is so sick of kids having to pee during the middle of the game he send them all to the tree line to pee. I have the cutest picture of the whole team peeing.

HAHA. That sounds hilarious. Only women would worry about something like this. If it were left up to men, kids would be out in the yard peeing away and dads would make potty training the funnest sport in the world.

Funny you said that, I had a friend struggling with potty training her son. It was summer and we were hanging out. I told my older boy to show him how to pee "in the woods" and he did. My friend was like that is crazy, if I told him to pee in the potty he would never do it.

So they came over every night for a week, peed in the woods and was potty trained. Peeing on command is easier in the woods, apparently.

[Anonymous]

If I wiitnessed your son urinating in a playground, I would call polive and report it because it is not allowed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our soccer coach is so sick of kids having to pee during the middle of the game he send them all to the tree line to pee. I have the cutest picture of the whole team peeing.

HAHA. That sounds hilarious. Only women would worry about something like this. If it were left up to men, kids would be out in the yard peeing away and dads would make potty training the funnest sport in the world.

Only American women.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is disgusting! Other children are playing and there is always a bathroom of some sort nearby. It is not acceptable for males of any age to urinate in public and it is not acceptablr for females to do so.

I gues you've never lived in Europe. They don't have a lot of rest stops in some places. They just have an exit off the autobahn and everyone goes toward the tree line. Number 2 as well. We joked that the world is your toilet in Germany.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is disgusting! Other children are playing and there is always a bathroom of some sort nearby. It is not acceptable for males of any age to urinate in public and it is not acceptablr for females to do so.

I gues you've never lived in Europe. They don't have a lot of rest stops in some places. They just have an exit off the autobahn and everyone goes toward the tree line. Number 2 as well. We joked that the world is your toilet in Germany.

While I don't think Germans would worry about little boys peeing against trees, it is not true that they don't have enough rest stops. In fact, there is an abundance of rest stops along the Autobahn, many more than along US highways where you cannot rely on finding gas stations at regular intervals. Over here you also often have to drive quite a bit off the highway to get to gas stations and restaurants, instead of having a proper rest stop right next to the road. In Germany, I have never had to use the woods when traveling on the Autobahn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is disgusting! Other children are playing and there is always a bathroom of some sort nearby. It is not acceptable for males of any age to urinate in public and it is not acceptablr for females to do so.

I gues you've never lived in Europe. They don't have a lot of rest stops in some places. They just have an exit off the autobahn and everyone goes toward the tree line. Number 2 as well. We joked that the world is your toilet in Germany.

While I don't think Germans would worry about little boys peeing against trees, it is not true that they don't have enough rest stops. In fact, there is an abundance of rest stops along the Autobahn, many more than along US highways where you cannot rely on finding gas stations at regular intervals. Over here you also often have to drive quite a bit off the highway to get to gas stations and restaurants, instead of having a proper rest stop right next to the road. In Germany, I have never had to use the woods when traveling on the Autobahn.

In the two years I lived there, I never "had" to as well. However, I certainly witnessed it on a regular basis. I lived in Bavaria, so maybe those who live in the Northern sections don't. And they don't always have rest stops, not in the country anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, I wonder about this. I have a newly potty-trained 3 year-old (wearing underpants for 5 days). Most days we go to the one playground in walking distance. By walking distance, I mean probably 3/4 mile from our house. It is in a very residential area and there is no public bathroom any closer than our house. We could drive, and maybe with a newly potty-trained kid, I should, but he is also underactive and so this walk to and from the playground is pretty crucial exercise for him. If he has to pee, I take him into the woods to pee. Is that bad?

Exigency circumstances. When my son was newly potty trained we did go outside. Always off in the perimeter, bushes, dirt, etc. no flaunting it and it was clearly an emergency situation. He's now four and can hold it and does hold it. So we walk to a restaurant or hotel or home if we are somewhere without a true public bathroom

[Anonymous]

I'd rather my child pee outside than in a park bathroom a homeless person has probably been living in, or is likely host to drug stuff or late night sexcapades. Find a bush, kid.

[Anonymous]

I have two boys and not once did I ever allow such disgraceful behavior.

[Anonymous]

Oh dear! You are all weird! It is ok to pee behind a tree, boy if girl!

[Anonymous]

Many of you also think nothing of changing dirty diapers in restaurants, airplane seats, grocery carts, or park benches. Your children will grow up to be as disgusting as you.

[Anonymous]

How else do kids go potty at soccer practice or games?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many of you also think nothing of changing dirty diapers in restaurants, airplane seats, grocery carts, or park benches. Your children will grow up to be as disgusting as you.

Ha yeah. I am willing to bet the most horrified people are those who waited to potty train until 3.5 and even then traveled with a poop potty in their car for two years. GROSS.