Do you let your children pee outside??

[NewJersey]

My best advice would be not to walk barefoot in Somerset Co .

I'll remember that next time I'm at Bridgewater mall!

 

[MushyMushy]

Yuck, absolutely not.

Although I do remember as a kid, my parents pulling off the highway and opening the doors so my sister and I could pee along the road. I'm mortified by that now, but they didn't think anything of it.

Fast forward to a few years ago. My dad used to come to my house all the time (still does), and he parked at this abandoned house across the street. One day, I saw him pull in, and he walked to the corner where there were some bushes, and he took a leak right there. He was just across the street from my house! There was no call for that whatsoever. I called my mother, horrified, and told her that she better have a word with him.

 

[RadioNate]

I agree with you mother! I think it is very tacky. The only way my DS is peeing outside is if it is a complete emergency. There is no way I'd actually teach my child that it is ok.

 

[MOMTOMOOTOO]

Only if we're somewhere where there are no bathrooms.

Of course I've still caught DS peeing on a tree in the yard

Same here. I caught my little guy peeing off the deck too.


I don't promote it, but don't see the big deal either.

 

[MOMTOMOOTOO]

The nanny was appalled and so was I!

That's a shocker

 

[tiggersmom2]

That's a shocker

 

[Buckalew11]

Heck, I wish somebody had taught me to squat in the bushes and trees and pee because when I did the WDW 1/2 marathon in January, this was the big shocker for me! The start of the race is outside Epcot and runners desend upon the woods for an hour before the race starts (no port-a-potties there!)
I was in shock and horror! Swore I would just give up and go back to the room before I would do that. Yeah, right! Learned my lesson: be one of the first to go, not the last! People actually only go to the edge of the woods--not all the way down in them!

Thanks for the laugh though! DH is from the south. He has no trouble during any of his races. I, OTOH, thought using the port-a-potties during the 1/2 was going to the worst part. Surprise, surprise!

 

[hellokitty86]

NO, I would not! Thats disgusting. The only way I would would be if it was an absolute emergency.

 

[sydally9367]

I voted only pee pee emergencies I have 2 girls, so I really try and make them wait it out so that they don't end up peeing in their pants while trying to perfect the "squat" LOL.

 

[OctMtnWoods]

Only when we are out hiking. And then far enough off the trail for no one to see or encounter it. When I was growing up, we would go snowmobiling in the NH White Mtn on weekends. Nothing like a female peeing in the woods in the freezing cold snow in a full snowmobile suit. Not easy at all.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I voted "No Way!" and that goes for my sons & DH! That just wouldn't fly around here.

No pun intended?


My kids are allowed to go if we're in a place that doesn't have toilets. We go to a lot of youth baseball games and there often isn't a porta-potty, so the kids find a place to go where they can't be seen. There's really not much of a choice sometimes.

 

[Val]

We live in the woods...on lots of land. If the kids are WAY out and can't make it, they know they can pee in the woods. BUT-only in the woods and only in an emergency....

....remember....it's not just the kids peeing in the woods. If you haven't noticed, there aren't any indoor toilets for the critters!

Oh, and urine is a great deterrent for rabbits, foxes, etc. for your garden. If you pee around your garden...no more deer or rabbit problems. Might be a bit embarrassing (do it under the cover of a dark night). If you are the shy type- buy some commercial "urine" products! We use fox urine in our garden (also use it in my animal learning research....but that is another story!).

Just can't get my husband to pee when and where I want him too! I guess if I can't teach him to lift the lid I am out of luck teaching him to carefully pee around lettuce!!!

 

[tglenn45]

when necessary i do and so does my son. i've been 50 miles from a toilet so i figure i'd better go in the woods or risk wetting myself. that would be pretty rude or at least embarrassing, for me or the boy.

 

[freckles and boo]

I remember doing it under dire circumstances as a kid, but I hope to never have to again. As for my kids, I have two little girls. The older one (7) would (insert righteous indignation here) NEVER EVER EVER do it! She needs her PRIVACY! And SOFT toilet paper! The little one (4) is autistic and if I let her do it she would want to do it all the time with no compunction about where or when. I can see me having to explain that at the grocery store. We will stick with porcelain and modern plumbing, thanks.

 

[pospisil]

OK.......this is disgusting to some, second nature to others. We live in the south, and around here little boys (and some big boys ) will just "go" wherever they are, if they are outside and need to "go". I'm not talking the Walmart parking lot, or the public playground.......but in your yard, out in the woods..........

I potty trained both DS's with the enticement of "let's go pee-pee on that tree", or "let's go make some mud in that dirt". Both DS's (and DH )if they are outside will happily "go" by a tree.
We live in a neighborhood, but have a larger yard, and several trees. No close neighbors......

Anyway, my mother is HORRIFIED!!!!!! Thinks it's beyond disgusting and that I'm raising beasts.

thoughts??

I guess I have beasts, too! I don't see it as a big deal.........

 

[Planogirl]

I think it's OK in the woods or somewhere like that but our yards are way too small and I don't need that smell.

 

[themarquis]

When I was growing up, my sis and I always peed in the woods while camping, on the side of the road during a car trip, in the backyard when we couldn't hold it, etc.

I always thought that was a pretty normal thing to do ... ya know ... it's nature! pssing in the woods is the most natural thing ever!

recently, when trying to convince GF to go camping with me, she said she would be grossed out if she had to go in a port-a-pottie. My response? "Oh, nothing to worry about ... if the portapotty is gross, you can just squat in the woods!" (me thinking no biggie ... I've been doing it my whole life!) Her response?

Turns out -- I was incredulous to find out -- she has never gone in the woods in her whole life! I kept saying, but what about when you were a kid? What about when you were on a road trip? Etc... nope, never! I was shocked!

(I then tried to convince her that pssing in the woods is completely natural and "freeing" ... let's just say she just about divorced me!)

 

[basas]

I think you have to use common sense. On a front lawn or something (a smaller suburban property), I would never encourage this sort of thing as the location is simply too small, public, etc. Saying that, on a larger property with woods/forest/lots of land, I don't think it's all that uncommon to just 'go a little into the woods' to pee if you're far from the nearest restroom.

 

[daisyduck123]

No, never.

DS9 & DD12...no never!

 

[It's A Happy Day]

I've seen public restrooms that are ALOT worse than my son peeing on a tree While I don't promote it I am not repulsed by it, I just make sure to tell him that when & if he does it that he is somewhere that he is not exposed to the world