When you’re surrounded by museums with free clean bathrooms on all sides, yes it’s lazy, disgusting, entitled behavior.

This was not an emergency. She could have walked in any building and gone to the bathroom. Your friend is nasty.

No big deal. I have no problem with this.

Anonymous wrote:When hiking or in a park or in the woods, I’d let it slide. On the national mall, unless the kid was really little - no. Four is old enough to wait in line.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not a big deal. The bathroom would have been better but ultimately this is nothing to care about.

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+1. I would assume kid wasn’t that well potty trained yet and/or that the logistics of taking her 4 and 2 year old to wait in a long bathroom line were sufficiently daunting that she took the easy way out. Not a huge deal if in the grass away from people.

Man. People are raising their children to act like animals.

plenty of homeless people and animals doing it.

Omg calm down - this is not disgusting! The ground including that at the National Mall is covered in pee, mostly from animals, and also from humans. That’s one reason we take our shoes off inside the house (just to link this to another hotly debated DCUM topic!) It’s not a big deal.

Anonymous wrote:If your kid can’t give you enough notice to get to a bathroom they aren’t potty trained and should be back in diapers. Disgusting.

Yeah, no. Not how it works.

Anonymous wrote:Not a big deal. The bathroom would have been better but ultimately this is nothing to care about.

Agree.

I have a 4 year old girl who sometimes can not hold it and has gone in some odd places. We don’t make a habit of it, but when the alternative is chancing peeing in her pants.

Anonymous wrote:If your kid can’t give you enough notice to get to a bathroom they aren’t potty trained and should be back in diapers. Disgusting.

But not an issue for the dogs and horses? I see no problem with this. Bathrooms can be far away at the Mall.

Anonymous wrote:Not a big deal. The bathroom would have been better but ultimately this is nothing to care about.

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No. I’m as laid back as they come but this is gross

If your kid can’t give you enough notice to get to a bathroom they aren’t potty trained and should be back in diapers. Disgusting.

Not a big deal. The bathroom would have been better but ultimately this is nothing to care about.

When hiking or in a park or in the woods, I’d let it slide. On the national mall, unless the kid was really little - no. Four is old enough to wait in line.