Please, I implore you all to just keep them in a nappy until they're ready, the potty is just another step that has to be learned an un -learned again and will only cause you stress. I have two boys who are years beyond this stage now but I feel I am the only person left in this country who is is NOT ok with everyone thinking that if you are a boy in potty training, you will explode if you're not allowed to just piss like a dog where you like! IF THEY CAN'T WAIT PUT THEM IN A NAPPY! PLEASE! There is a reason that there is a law against public urination, because it IS offensive and although it is NOT unusual for grown people to get caught short after the pub with nowhere to go, trust me, if you teach your kids that it's fine to go where you want, it will be YOUR child who (instead of being discreet) will be desicrating some shop doorway or just being on full view on a Saturday night making everyone have to avoid stepping through and having to smell their dirty waste! I hate it and it makes me want to put my fist through glass!
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My ds loves an outdoor wee 
. He is now pretty much able to hold it in but on a long car journey today we finally got to a service station... and the toilets were out of order. My ds had a sneaky little wee next to the car. At 37w pg I had to cross my legs another 20 mins (so nearly an hour at this point) til the next garage. If that had been out of order then quite frankly I would have wee'd in the car park too!
My ds does not wee in shop door ways but fairly often next to the car in car parks/lay by's.
No issue with toddlers having a crafty slash against a car tyre but one sunny day last year we were eating our picnic on the beach when some inconsiderate bint brought her daughter over to within fucking literally 2ft of us and held her over the sand to piss! as well as the fear of splash back on our sandy sandwiches, we had to sit next to a pissy patch of sand! Grrrrr 
Hm outdoors like behind a bush in the countryside wouldn't bother me. Was 
at the woman who let her little darling pee on a crowded tube platform though. There was quite a lot of it and because of the shape and slope of the platform it ran down towards the tracks getting on people's bags, where they'd put them down to wait for the train, and onto people's shoes! It was at Paddington so it's not like there aren't toilets available. It didn't get on my bag so I didn't say anything but I can't believe anyone could be so inconsiderate. Wee smells and is unpleasant, I'm sure she would've had something to say if an adult had done the same thing to her bag.
It's a bit gross in concreted areas where it can't run away, as then there's a puddle and people aren't necessarily going to expect it to be wee. If you need to do it in a carpark or similar it would be best to do it directly into a drain.
Wait till your children are being potty trained and then come back and moan
Sometimes an emergency discrete outside wee is necessary for girls and boys.
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Currently potty training my DD. She's still learning bladder control. She can't wait, she doesn't yet know how or have the muscle control. We take the potty everywhere but if she needs to use it between our house and, say, the park, we don't have much choice.
Hardly see her turning into some sort of al fresco wee monster when she's a teenager, tbh
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