quick poll;would you let your son pee in a library parking lot?

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I probably would though in that situation I'd have him pee into one of the baby's diaper, assuming I had one. I would rather not haul everyone back out of the car and back inside. Plus my daughter has this great little habit of telling me she has to pee NOW and can't hold it.

2 of the kids were still out of the car. Only the baby was in the car.

I'm the PP from above with the just-turned-4 year old who pees in the garden/trees when we go out. And yes, he tells us this as well - we'll ask him in the library and says he definitely doesn't need to go but then after we strap in the little one he'll decide that he needs to go after all. And we know from experience that if we make him hold it then there will be an accident.

Anyone who has a problem with a toddler peeing in the bushes had better not have a dog. Dogs do NOT just pee in the bushes (regardless of what the owners think) but all over the path and where ever else too. And even if the dogs pee in the grass at the park or whatever, my toddlers then run around and fall in it. So I'm sure they can deal with seeing a little boy pee on some bushes.

I just saw that someone who regularly lets their kid pee on their tire (?!) in a parking lot and I think that's totally disgusting. The next person to park there will probably think it's spilled water from refilling a bottle. My kids are rear facing so whatever they step in ends up on the back of the seat in front of them that they then put their toys and books in. So thanks for that.

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People here are really uptight. I don't think this is a representative sample of humanity.

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Never, but if he wants to take a dump, sure.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup. My 2 year old (27 month) old son is potty trained but using public toilets with him is a PITA. I also have an infant son. My son pees on the tire pretty much everywhere we go. It's like maybe 3 ounces of pee. It hardly even makes a puddle.

So he's car-trained?

I would not judge another parent with theee small kids if I saw this. Who knows what is going on with them right now.

Hahaha, no. He doesn't ONLY pee on tires. He can use toilets, public and at home. But I always ask him if he has to pee before we get in the car and if he says yes, then I don't walk back into the store/mall/target/library. I just have him pee on the tire.

Why don't you bring him before you leave the building?

I usually do. Almost always. But if we get to the car and he says he has to pee, then he just goes right there. This is like once a month. And once he's a little older, a couple more months probably, I won't let him. He'll have to learn to hold it in the car.

He's old enough to learn to hold it now.

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Anonymous wrote:People here are really uptight. I don't think this is a representative sample of humanity.

All humanity no. Just nasty and likely white people. There's a reason you all infected everyone you came in contact with.

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Anonymous wrote:People here are really uptight. I don't think this is a representative sample of humanity.

All humanity no. Just nasty and likely white people. There's a reason you all infected everyone you came in contact with.

O.........k

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I probably would though in that situation I'd have him pee into one of the baby's diaper, assuming I had one. I would rather not haul everyone back out of the car and back inside. Plus my daughter has this great little habit of telling me she has to pee NOW and can't hold it.

2 of the kids were still out of the car. Only the baby was in the car.

I'm the PP from above with the just-turned-4 year old who pees in the garden/trees when we go out. And yes, he tells us this as well - we'll ask him in the library and says he definitely doesn't need to go but then after we strap in the little one he'll decide that he needs to go after all. And we know from experience that if we make him hold it then there will be an accident.

Anyone who has a problem with a toddler peeing in the bushes had better not have a dog. Dogs do NOT just pee in the bushes (regardless of what the owners think) but all over the path and where ever else too. And even if the dogs pee in the grass at the park or whatever, my toddlers then run around and fall in it. So I'm sure they can deal with seeing a little boy pee on some bushes.

I just saw that someone who regularly lets their kid pee on their tire (?!) in a parking lot and I think that's totally disgusting. The next person to park there will probably think it's spilled water from refilling a bottle. My kids are rear facing so whatever they step in ends up on the back of the seat in front of them that they then put their toys and books in. So thanks for that.

There are no bushes he straight up peed on the sidewalk and parking lot leaving a puddle, probably spraying other cars because little boys and aim and mom was standing right there waiting for him to finish.

It's not about nudity.

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Hell yes.

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Uhhhhh...

1) No, not on the asphalt-- I think that's a little yucky. Just like I'd prefer a dog poop on the grass than on the asphalt, even if it's picked up either way. I guess just a personal preference to keep natural waste products in nature. But yes, in the car in a little potty if it were more of an emergency, and maybe on the grass, if it were a severe emergency.

2) Regardless, even though I think it's kinda yucky, peeing on the asphalt is not that gross in the scheme of things. Seriously, this is so not a big deal, even if I wouldn't allow it. And arrested? Are you kidding me?

3) This is definitely not just a white people thing, and I am the last to defend white people. Go to China and report back to me. Most people-- especially those who don't have 3-year-olds in diapers-- are just not that uptight about baby and toddler pee.

4) Pee is sterile and most of the rest of the outside is objectively grosser than a little toddler pee. It's also not horribly uncouth or perverted, and I actually agree it's not grosser than a kid pooping in a diaper in public. People are saying "well, a non-potty-trained kid can't help it." But often, they could, if that were really the priority-- i.e., it's not purely a biological reality. So if a kid can't hold it 100% of the time until they get to a toilet, and very occasionally pees outside, is that really grosser than keeping them in a diaper an extra year until they can? Peeing and pooping in public right next to other people, for a whole extra year? It's definitely a bit of a false dichotomy, but it's something to consider about cultural messages people are getting. If, in a certain culture, it's total anathema for a kid to pee outside, that kid is less likely to be out of diapers as soon as he might otherwise be.

5) No doubt, however, this is seen as more acceptable and more of an option for males than females. Make of that what you will.

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(re: #4, I meant the idea that a non-potty-trained kid can't help but pee and poop in their diaper. Biologically speaking only, without disposable diapers and a culture that accepts them, this wouldn't be true for the majority of kids past 1.5 years old.)

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URINE IS NOT STERILE. So sick of this tired, uneducated argument.

Urine is not sterile, even before it comes out of you and gets contaminated by your skin. Bacteria are present at low levels in the urine of healthy people not suffering from a urinary tract infection, Evann Hilt of Loyola University of Chicago reported May 18 at a conference of the American Society for Microbiology.May 22, 2014

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Anonymous wrote:Yup. My 2 year old (27 month) old son is potty trained but using public toilets with him is a PITA. I also have an infant son. My son pees on the tire pretty much everywhere we go. It's like maybe 3 ounces of pee. It hardly even makes a puddle.

So he's car-trained?

I would not judge another parent with theee small kids if I saw this. Who knows what is going on with them right now.

Hahaha, no. He doesn't ONLY pee on tires. He can use toilets, public and at home. But I always ask him if he has to pee before we get in the car and if he says yes, then I don't walk back into the store/mall/target/library. I just have him pee on the tire.

Holy crapp. WtF is wrong with you?

+1!!!! Why don't you ask him before you leave the store / mall / target rather then outside???!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe, if the library was closed and it was an emergency. No, if the library was open. I don't need to encourage this behavior in my young boys - I know plenty of drunk college age boys receiving citations for public urination so I only want them to use it as a last resort.

This. If the library is open, absolutely not. If it's closed, then yes if there's nothing else reasonable within a 2-minute walk.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, no but, it's only pee FFS

Human pee stinks. It's not like dog pee.

You smell lots of pee to be able to make that kind of global comparison?

Actually yeah. I pass by lots of homeless people and it's obvious to tell human pee as I walk to work. I never have that issue in dog parks or around my own house where I have dogs.

PP, that's because those people are likely sitting in layers urine soaked clothing, or haven't bathed in months, are incontinent, etc. A homeless person and a toddler peeing in the parking lot doesn't have the same smell. I can assure you that a small amount of a child's pee on the tire/asphalt/bushes does not smell. Heck, even a small amount on their clothes hardly even smells. You'd have to have 50 toddlers all peeing in the exact same place (probably on cloth) for it to smell terribly.

WEll if everyone let their kids do this, it would smell. Have you ever ridden the escalators or elevators at one of the downtown metro stations? Especially in summer it is very obvious that people have urinated inside and around the entrances.

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Pull out one of the babu's diapers and let the kid pee in there. Throw the diaper out. Easy peasy.