Pooping at the playground

[Anonymous]

I’m willing to bet at least one of the posters here who purports to being disgusted at a young child using a self-contained portable toilet to defecate at the park also has a dog who poops on the grass and makes you pick it up in a little baggie multiple times a day. Good grief, we are all doing the best we can. Show a little grace.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m willing to bet at least one of the posters here who purports to being disgusted at a young child using a self-contained portable toilet to defecate at the park also has a dog who poops on the grass and makes you pick it up in a little baggie multiple times a day. Good grief, we are all doing the best we can. Show a little grace.

I will bet you also change your baby on restaurant tables. Is that the best you can really do? Aim higher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m willing to bet at least one of the posters here who purports to being disgusted at a young child using a self-contained portable toilet to defecate at the park also has a dog who poops on the grass and makes you pick it up in a little baggie multiple times a day. Good grief, we are all doing the best we can. Show a little grace.

I don't own a dog and I am entitled to my own opinions. Having parents set up the potty at the play ground just in case their toddler needs to go is utterly ridiculous in my opinion. And then the kid goes in his pants anyway. Believe me, he sees to what extent his parents are willing to go and he's having a blast ruining your plans. It's almost comical. As a parent you are supposed to teach your child how to function in different settings and that takes effort.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are people really grossed out by seeing a very young kid use a travel potty outside in the park?!!

Too bad.

The fact that it's a child doesn't change the fact that it is rude, disgusting, lazy and unnecessary. Then what do you do with the poop? bag it and bring it home? This is insane. Just put a diaper on your kid if he's not potty trained.

You bag it and put it in the trash can, just like you do with a dirty diaper, or dog poop.

You don’t get out much, do you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are people really grossed out by seeing a very young kid use a travel potty outside in the park?!!

Too bad.

The fact that it's a child doesn't change the fact that it is rude, disgusting, lazy and unnecessary. Then what do you do with the poop? bag it and bring it home? This is insane. Just put a diaper on your kid if he's not potty trained.

You bag it and put it in the trash can, just like you do with a dirty diaper, or dog poop.

You don’t get out much, do you?

Does the kid bend over butt to the sky so you can wipe it in front of the entire park? I have never seen this gross behavior before and have spent plenty of time in the park. This isn't as normal or as common as you're making it out to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m willing to bet at least one of the posters here who purports to being disgusted at a young child using a self-contained portable toilet to defecate at the park also has a dog who poops on the grass and makes you pick it up in a little baggie multiple times a day. Good grief, we are all doing the best we can. Show a little grace.

I will bet you also change your baby on restaurant tables. Is that the best you can really do? Aim higher.

I don't do little potties (even at home -- insert seat from day one) because I find the idea of cleaning them gross. But provided no one is asking ME to clean up their toddler's poop, I don't really see what the issue is. The playground is already covered in the remains of squirrel poop and any number of toddler bodily fluids and assorted other gross things; I fail to see why a parent letting their kid poop in a receptacle outside the playground structure and then neatly taking it home again is any grosser than changing their kid's diaper on the grass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are people really grossed out by seeing a very young kid use a travel potty outside in the park?!!

Too bad.

The fact that it's a child doesn't change the fact that it is rude, disgusting, lazy and unnecessary. Then what do you do with the poop? bag it and bring it home? This is insane. Just put a diaper on your kid if he's not potty trained.

We sit the potty in the trunk. If he needs to go then we open the doors and put the potty in between the doors and stand to block views. I purposefully park in certain spots- especially when we first started. I have had to do it at swim lessons in a private pool since there were no bathrooms. Just set it up, put the liner in, let him go, wipe, and bag it up. I have also pulled over to let my kid pee into grass on a side road with no one around.

We dont have it set up on the actual playground but its close.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are people really grossed out by seeing a very young kid use a travel potty outside in the park?!!

Too bad.

The fact that it's a child doesn't change the fact that it is rude, disgusting, lazy and unnecessary. Then what do you do with the poop? bag it and bring it home? This is insane. Just put a diaper on your kid if he's not potty trained.

You bag it and put it in the trash can, just like you do with a dirty diaper, or dog poop.

You don’t get out much, do you?

Does the kid bend over butt to the sky so you can wipe it in front of the entire park? I have never seen this gross behavior before and have spent plenty of time in the park. This isn't as normal or as common as you're making it out to be.

This has got to be location based. We're in Columbia Heights and I see this ALL THE TIME. If you're in the suburbs, or even in more suburban areas of DC, I could see how people would just avoid the park for the week or month or even few months of active potty training. Where we are, everyone is in tiny apartments or little row houses. So if you're not at the park, you're literally inside a tiny home all day. We don't have any outside space to play in. Not going to a park one day is unusual. Not going two days in a row is very, very rare, and basically only happens because of illness. In my three years of parenting, I've never gone a full week without going to a park. Which means, unless you have 100% potty training success in a day or two (which is just not all that common) you need a park potty solution during potty training.

At the park near us that's very toddler focused, I see a toddler use a travel potty probably an average of once a day. There's no restroom, and it's in a residential area. It's just not the end of the world. Yes, it's mostly pee, and you just dump it in the wooded area outside the playground (newsflash: animals pee in there all the time! And so do dogs!) but this particular mom is struggling with a poop issue, so it's poop. The travel potties all have little bags. You tie it up and either put it in the trash can (that's what the dog owners do) or you take it home with you. You sanitize your hands and your kids hands and you move on. You go to a little out of the way spot and go behind the stroller for some privacy. If this isn't the culture of where you are, then okay, fine, but there's real, practical reasons why this is common in a lot of neighborhoods and it's not "laziness" - it's necessary!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m willing to bet at least one of the posters here who purports to being disgusted at a young child using a self-contained portable toilet to defecate at the park also has a dog who poops on the grass and makes you pick it up in a little baggie multiple times a day. Good grief, we are all doing the best we can. Show a little grace.

I will bet you also change your baby on restaurant tables. Is that the best you can really do? Aim higher.

I don't do little potties (even at home -- insert seat from day one) because I find the idea of cleaning them gross. But provided no one is asking ME to clean up their toddler's poop, I don't really see what the issue is. The playground is already covered in the remains of squirrel poop and any number of toddler bodily fluids and assorted other gross things; I fail to see why a parent letting their kid poop in a receptacle outside the playground structure and then neatly taking it home again is any grosser than changing their kid's diaper on the grass.

So human feces at the park is now no big whoop? Huh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m willing to bet at least one of the posters here who purports to being disgusted at a young child using a self-contained portable toilet to defecate at the park also has a dog who poops on the grass and makes you pick it up in a little baggie multiple times a day. Good grief, we are all doing the best we can. Show a little grace.

I will bet you also change your baby on restaurant tables. Is that the best you can really do? Aim higher.

I don't do little potties (even at home -- insert seat from day one) because I find the idea of cleaning them gross. But provided no one is asking ME to clean up their toddler's poop, I don't really see what the issue is. The playground is already covered in the remains of squirrel poop and any number of toddler bodily fluids and assorted other gross things; I fail to see why a parent letting their kid poop in a receptacle outside the playground structure and then neatly taking it home again is any grosser than changing their kid's diaper on the grass.

So human feces at the park is now no big whoop? Huh.

You don't change diapers in the park? Do you never leave the house with your baby ages 0 to potty trained, or do you just leave them to sit in dirty diapers? Training potties aren't any grosser than diapers imo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are people really grossed out by seeing a very young kid use a travel potty outside in the park?!!

Too bad.

The fact that it's a child doesn't change the fact that it is rude, disgusting, lazy and unnecessary. Then what do you do with the poop? bag it and bring it home? This is insane. Just put a diaper on your kid if he's not potty trained.

You bag it and put it in the trash can, just like you do with a dirty diaper, or dog poop.

You don’t get out much, do you?

Does the kid bend over butt to the sky so you can wipe it in front of the entire park? I have never seen this gross behavior before and have spent plenty of time in the park. This isn't as normal or as common as you're making it out to be.

We didn’t do it with our kids but I’ve seen it done multiple times. No, I have never seen a kid bend over butt to the sky to be wiped after sitting on a travel potty. I have changed some very full toddler poop diapers at the playground though, where that would have been an easier approach.

I think it’s remarkably normal but people are usually discreet about it so you haven’t noticed.

I did see a mom hold an empty jar for her son to pee in one time, basically in the middle of the playground. That was odd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m willing to bet at least one of the posters here who purports to being disgusted at a young child using a self-contained portable toilet to defecate at the park also has a dog who poops on the grass and makes you pick it up in a little baggie multiple times a day. Good grief, we are all doing the best we can. Show a little grace.

I will bet you also change your baby on restaurant tables. Is that the best you can really do? Aim higher.

I don't do little potties (even at home -- insert seat from day one) because I find the idea of cleaning them gross. But provided no one is asking ME to clean up their toddler's poop, I don't really see what the issue is. The playground is already covered in the remains of squirrel poop and any number of toddler bodily fluids and assorted other gross things; I fail to see why a parent letting their kid poop in a receptacle outside the playground structure and then neatly taking it home again is any grosser than changing their kid's diaper on the grass.

So human feces at the park is now no big whoop? Huh.

You don't change diapers in the park? Do you never leave the house with your baby ages 0 to potty trained, or do you just leave them to sit in dirty diapers? Training potties aren't any grosser than diapers imo.

Nobody can see a kid poop in the diaper. Sitting on a potty with pants around ankles is very different. In what way are they similar?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m willing to bet at least one of the posters here who purports to being disgusted at a young child using a self-contained portable toilet to defecate at the park also has a dog who poops on the grass and makes you pick it up in a little baggie multiple times a day. Good grief, we are all doing the best we can. Show a little grace.

+1, totally. How dare you allow your child to use a potty on the grass...that dogs poop on all day, every day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m willing to bet at least one of the posters here who purports to being disgusted at a young child using a self-contained portable toilet to defecate at the park also has a dog who poops on the grass and makes you pick it up in a little baggie multiple times a day. Good grief, we are all doing the best we can. Show a little grace.

+1, totally. How dare you allow your child to use a potty on the grass...that dogs poop on all day, every day.

Dogs poop is disgusting too but unlike animals, humans have options: use a diaper, use a bathroom, go home to change your poopy pants, poop before we go, potty train... A baby is one thing, but a toddler is old enough to understand the there is no potty at the playground he will have to leave/walk to a bathroom/wear a diaper if he poops there. He also knows that is odd and slightly humiliating to have your own personal potty set up at the playground. And this is not a one time emergency kind of thing. OP already anticipates he's going to poop at the playground like he has done for months. She probably got used to it and brings him there to poop because it's easier.

[Anonymous]

Stop taking him to the playground. And stop letting him defecate in public. Geez.