Question for parents of boys

[shortbun]

We let our son go outdoors once and told him it was only because it was an 'emergency.'
After that he tried to make everything an 'emergency.' Ah, no.

Little boys do love to pee outside. Spitting is grosser imho.

 

[pirateofthecarolinas]

No, if there is a restroom. Yes, outside but out of sight of anyone and not on my flowers and shrubs.

My DS7 has bladder issues and when he has to go, he has to go. I keep extra, empty plastic bottles in our car for emergencies. That's the nice part about having a boy.

 

[NHdisneylover]

"No" when in public. "Yes" anywhere else in the world. And that goes for DS and DD. I taught her how to squat at an early age. And, yep we are country folks. We hike a lot, camp a lot and are out working on our farm quite often when it just isn't practical to go running back to the house.

This. Normally both kids (boy and girl) go inside in restrooms. They certainly have never gone in school parking lots Howver, camping, hiking and yes playing in the woods well behind the house in NH (several acres of trees between the house and where they were playing many times) were all acceptable palces to find a conveineint tree or bush.

 

[bumbershoot]

No, I don't. Not even while camping, since we camp in campgrounds with bathrooms and all.

 

[ilovejack02]

tsk, tsk. City folks.

LOL!!

Country folks here, yes he knows how to aim at a tree if need be, but he can't just use one whenever feels like it. Must use the bathroom if it is available.

 

[Pakey]

Raised 3 boys, in the country. I can't vouch for what I don't know (after a certain age, I didn't actually take an active involvement in their toilet activities), but I taught them to use the facilities indoors.

 

[buckler]

A parking lot is nothing...I have the best (or worst) little boy peeing in public story.

We were in the Magic Kingdom waiting outside of the Monsters Inc Laugh Floor. Two parents and a little boy walk by, stop and they help the little boy lower his pants and pee right in the middle of the walkway in Tomorrowland!! They finished up and went on their merry way. We warned people walking through the area to walk around the huge wet puddle.

It may be a cultural thing because they were speaking a foreign language. I'm not sure what country but they definitely were Your-a-peein'

 

[Sandy51]

Several years ago we were in line for Fantasmic right at the beginning of the walkway. Some dad lifted up his 3 or 4 year boy old to pee on the back of the Fantasmic sign. People were appalled, but said nothing. Really crude.




Sandy

 

[Liberty Belle]

Definitely when camping. And once I let him go in our backyard (he was all muddy and I told him if he went inside, he stayed inside and took a bath), but I made sure he was behind a bush.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

LOL

were you in the car with me today?? We had this exact conversation on our way home from a PTO expo!

3 boys, in the country and no they will not ever pee outside unless we are camping. However we car camp so we usually have facilities near by.

My boys were actually at the neighbors house a few years ago and walked home because she told them to pee outside. She wouldn't let them in the house.

 

[Disney Doll]

Peeing outdoors was only done in the most direst of emergencies and it was done as quickly and with as little fanfare and as much privacy as possible.

 

[portocall]

This thread is cracking me up. For my three sons, if there is a bathroom available, you use that. If not a discreet tree will do. Discreet is the key word. Now, growing up, we had a nasty fire ant problem. My mom saw on tv that urine kills them better than boiling water (she didn't do chemicals) so after that, my brother was sent outside to pee on the ants. Thankfully, we lived in the country and didn't have a lot of neighbors. And for the record, the ants weren't happy and for the most part decided to move house, not sure if they were killed or not.

 

[buckler]

This thread is cracking me up. For my three sons, if there is a bathroom available, you use that. If not a discreet tree will do. Discreet is the key word. Now, growing up, we had a nasty fire ant problem. My mom saw on tv that urine kills them better than boiling water (she didn't do chemicals) so after that, my brother was sent outside to pee on the ants. Thankfully, we lived in the country and didn't have a lot of neighbors. And for the record, the ants weren't happy and for the most part decided to move house, not sure if they were killed or not.

I imagine the ants left because they were pissed off

 

[manning]

I imagine the ants left because they were pissed off

Shouldn't that be 'on'

 

[pls5286]

This thread brought back a memory from my son as a kindergartener. But first for the record, yes my son will use the bathroom outside, but with privacy, not in a parking lot and not in front of people.

When DS13 was in K, as I was a single mom, he had always been in the womens restroom, rarely in the mens room. When he started school, He came out one afternoon, crying, when I asked him what was wrong, he said "I went to the bathroom wrong, and the made me go to Watch out White".

Watch out White meant he had a pretty bad day. Upon questioning, this is the explanation I got. "You know the things that hang on the wall that you potty in? I had to stinky and I stinkied in it, and they got mad at me and moved me to watch out white."

When I talked to the teacher, evidently, DS had climed up on the urinal and pottied there because all the stalls were full.

I talked to my dad later that night and asked had you ever told him that is only a urinal, and he said no, DS thought it was a toilet too!!!!

I bet the custodian was scratching his head over that one.

 

[sbell111]

Do you let your son....or daughter, if you like....pee where ever they happen to be?

Princess WigglyPants is four months old. She pees wherever she pleases.

 

[Planogirl]

Unless it was an emergency, our son was only allowed to use actual bathrooms. I considered it a part of potty training.

 

[belle&sebastiansmom]

Boy, I was flamed when I asked virtually the same question a while ago! I had a friend who told her daughter to pee in the yard when the kid got out of the pool instead of taking her in the house to the bathroom, literally 15 feet away. I think that if the facilities are available, use them!

 

[MerMom60_94]

I'm finding this thread very interesting. I only have a daughter and have no sons. On my side, we mainly have neices so I am much more accustomed to girly ways than boys ways. DH has a brother with two sons. They come over during the summer to use the pool and pee wherever even though the house is right there. I have always been somewhat horrified, but thought this was standard boy behavior and kept my mouth shut. Well, last summer his other brothers wife was over and saw this happen and her jaw dropped. She has a girl and a boy and she saw this as unacceptable, too. All this time I thought it was just me........

 

[chabs]

I absolutely think that this is disgusting and uncivilized. Last August, we were standing in line in front of the Mrs. Pott's ice cream place in Fantasyland when a little boy about 5 took his pants down and peed right in the middle of the huge crowd of people standing in line. The mother just looked at him and turned back to ordering her ice cream like it was nothing. The crowd literally went running because it was going everywhere and he could care less. I have to admit now that it is funny after the fact and my kids still talk about it but at the time we were horrified.