Children peeing in public

[mjkacmom]

If you pull your pants all the way down to your ankles and squat down really low you can pee without it getting on your legs or clothes. I know this from my drunken 20 year old nights. I always carried tissues in my car so we were good on TP.

As for TP, maybe the nannie had a tissue or a wipe? maybe she grabbed it from the car?

Yes, it's really pretty easy! I'm pretty sure my girls can manage - dd20 never goes hiking without her tp. Boys need to be taught how to manage without dropping their drawers.

 

[gotomu212]

I personally am not a huge fan of it, but I was really lucky with a kid hat basically potty trained himself and only had one accident his entire childhood so I'm not casting any stones. I noticed when the kids were younger a lot of my sons friends would pee outside when they were playing or at a park. I was surprised the first few times but never thought too much about it.

 

[Geoff_M]

One time at MK we saw what appeared to be a 5 year-old boy urinating against the bridge that goes from the Hub to Tomorrowland (not through the metal railing, but onto the solid concrete section) while his parents looked on and talked to one another.

 

[PlainJane]

I would consider it odd behavior. It could have been an isolated incident, so I wouldn't necessarily tell my neighbor about it, but at the same time I know I would want to know if my babysitter was letting my kid pee in the driveway.

 

[jevs]

I'd imagine it was an emergency. Explain to your husband that kids are unable to hold on as well as adults.

If it happens regularly you'd have no other choice but to alert the media and bring in the SWAT team.

 

[bushdianee]

My nephew had his 9th birthday party a few weeks ago. The kids were outside playing when I noticed one of the boys "watering the tree". Now he didn't drop his pants but he stood in front of the tree which was right next to the swing set where other kids were playing. He has been to the house before so he knows where the bathroom is or he could have gone around to the back of the tree where nobody could see him. It was a school classmate so 8 or 9 years old.

 

[jiminyC_fan]

Disgusting, period. Not cute. I've seen it in too many public places. Must be a lot of emergencies or just maybe parents/babysitters that are too lazy to take the time to run them INDOORS to use the potty. I think once they start it that it becomes more of a habit than need. Why go inside when you can drop your pants and go anywhere and everywhere? Adults can't do it why does it make it ok for children? I've pretty much raised 8 kids and not one was allowed to go outside and accidents were at a minimal.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Not something I'm personally comfortable with, but probably not something I'd call about either.

 

[MrsJackSparrow4Life]

If this is the only time you ( or your DH) have seen this happen, I would assume emergency. Just be glad she was peeing on their driveway and not yours

 

[lorimay]

We had new neighbors move in next door at our old house a few years ago.
Our kitchen window looked straight into their backyard, the first day they were there, I was standing at the sink look up and there is their 17-19 year old son peeing into the berm bushes.
We had the same exact model home, I know exactly how close he was to the bathroom, these were very small backyards maybe 30-40 steps to the sliding door and another 30 steps to the bathroom, but he decides to just walk toward the berm instead.
Disgusting, thankfully they were only renters and didn't last long.

 

[Disneychix]

At our little league football complex the peewee field is about .25 miles from the bathrooms. These are 5-6 yr olds. They regularly go in the fields lining the back part of the complex.

 

[Klayfish]

Disgusting, period. Not cute. I've seen it in too many public places. Must be a lot of emergencies or just maybe parents/babysitters that are too lazy to take the time to run them INDOORS to use the potty. I think once they start it that it becomes more of a habit than need. Why go inside when you can drop your pants and go anywhere and everywhere? Adults can't do it why does it make it ok for children? I've pretty much raised 8 kids and not one was allowed to go outside and accidents were at a minimal.

Wow, making a lot of assumptions and judgments there. Glad you raised 8 kids that way, wonderful. I've got 3 of my own, and in theory I'd agree with you that we raise our kids to use a toilet and accidents have been minimal. But they have happened. And yeah, at times it can be cute, you've got to have a sense of humor. As I said before, and Disneychix said above, our football fields are a good distance from the nearest open bathroom. The boys have to go? Well, either hold it or hit the bushes. Sorry, it's not disgusting, it's just the way it is. And I'm not sure where you live, but I don't see kids dropping their drawers on every street corner. I've seen it, sure, but it's quite rare (with the football field being the exception). I'm not suggesting it's OK for a kid to just pee wherever, whenever. Definitely not. But it's not a big deal if it happens.

 

[Hikergirl]

We are an outdoorsy family, hike and camp alot. My boys, have definitely done their share of peeing outside. Sometimes even in the back of our yard too. My dh grew up in the middle of nowhere, he only peed inside when we was already inside. He somehow managed to grow up into a responsible adult who uses indoor plumbing.

 

[ckay87]

It's more odd, in my opinion, that your husband took the time to call you about that. I literally have no idea what my neighbors are doing at any point in time unless it's disrupting to me, personally

 

[Liberty Belle]

I've let my kids pee outside before (in the woods and in our yard). Probably only happened in our yard two or three times. I really don't see the big deal unless it happened a lot and there was a smell wafting toward your house!

The naked kids in a sprinkler thing wouldn't bother me, either, though I've never let my boys do that (it was always easy enough to just run in shorts or throw on trunks).

 

[Liberty Belle]

It's more odd, in my opinion, that your husband took the time to call you about that. I literally have no idea what my neighbors are doing at any point in time unless it's disrupting to me, personally

Heck, my husband and older son saw our neighbor walk out of her house without anything on on top (no bra, nothing) twice and didn't tell me about it until we found out she had committed murder! Then they were like, "well, I knew she was weird because..."

We didn't even know about the murder until it was aired on Dateline or 20/20 or one of those shows!

BTW- as the show described, we live in an upper middle class neighborhood (though I really think it's more middle middle class). No other murders that I know of!

 

[Turn the Page]

Normally, I do not have a problem going outside with the understanding that the only other option is a portapotty. Really, I would much rather pee outside than in one of those. They are disgusting. If there is an actual toilet in the area then kids should use that.

Apparently, however, others in my family do not feel the same way. When I was a kid my uncles family owned a piece of property (a glorified piece of swamp really) on a local lake and we would often go there for cook outs and to go swimming and such. It was unimproved so there was no bathroom and we went in the woods. My brother was about 5 years old at the time and thought that was just the greatest thing ever. It took my mom forever to figure out what was killing the house plant. As she tells it, my brother would be playing in the basement and since there is no bathroom down there he would just go on the potted plant down there because he didn't want to go all the way upstairs.

His DD3 feels the same way. Last year, when she was 2, she went through a phase where she preferred to be naked which in itself isn't too unusual. What is unusual is that rather than going on the toilet she preferred to just run around the yard naked and do a partial squat wherever she was when the urge hit and went in the yard like the dogs. I was told it happened so much that my brother and SIL took to keeping a box of baby wipes on the back deck for easy access. She even did that at the local campground with the toilets about 75 yards away. They were potty training at the time and I think my SIL felt that so long as my niece wasn't going in her diaper it was a step in the right direction. I will admit to laughing at that but I just never could wrap my mind around that concept.

 

[kamik86]

We had a few last minute emergencies with the 5 year olds at the camp I worked at where this type of thing was done, but no one that did so habitually. I'm sure we had several pee in the lake too during swim.

I don't remember anything like this with my neices and the bathroom. I do remember one story of my neice where she decided to go swiming in her little pool. She tended to go in for a bit then just lounge around in a bathing suit without really drying off then go back in.

My sister told her she was NOT to go in the house in her wet bathing suit and drip all over the floors (meaning she wanted her to dry off). My niece wanted a toy in the house and didn't want to bother to dry off. So her little 3 year old logic was that the bathing suit was the problem, so she stripped naked, in the yard, went and got her toy and came back out. My sister had her back turned doing something else and missed it until she was inside. The neighbors sitting on their porch didn't miss it though. They thought it was cute and just let me sister know so she could go stop her and make her put on clothes (and clarify that she isn't to go in the house without drying off first)

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Apparently, however, others in my family do not feel the same way. When I was a kid my uncles family owned a piece of property (a glorified piece of swamp really) on a local lake and we would often go there for cook outs and to go swimming and such. It was unimproved so there was no bathroom and we went in the woods. My brother was about 5 years old at the time and thought that was just the greatest thing ever. It took my mom forever to figure out what was killing the house plant. As she tells it, my brother would be playing in the basement and since there is no bathroom down there he would just go on the potted plant down there because he didn't want to go all the way upstairs.
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HAHAHAHAHHA!! That's the third time a plant I put there has died. What am I doing wrong?

We hated liver. My sister always hid her liver in the plant. I always fed mine to the dog. We got busted when mother transplanted the plant.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Never thought I'd be posting this. Our neighbor has a Nanny for her 2 kids 3 and 10. My DH just went out and called to tell me the nanny had the little girl pee outside next to their car parked on the street. I know there is a bathroom on the first floor of the house so why have her pee outside? The nanny was next to her so it's not like the girl just did it on her own. Is this normal behavior, am I out if touch with preschoolers? I know last fall she was starting potty training so she should be good by now. It's very bizarre to me and I feel bad for the little girl.

Not normal behavior. It's toilet training not go anywhere you please training. I realize that accidents do happen. But from what you described, that wasn't an accident.