Do you let your kids wee in the garden...?

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If your children are playing out in the garden and need a wee.... do you let them wee in the garden or insist they go indoors to the toilet?

Eh no! Go to the toilet.

Toilet!

I did when potty training, kept a potty in the garden so it was handy and just tipped it out and rinsed it under the outside tap, but since then no.

I make them go to the toilet, I used to have a potty outside when they were potty training to make it easier but I'd never let them just wee in the garden it takes a few seconds to run from the garden to the toilet

So the child in question is 6, almost 7 and male

See in the garden. Just not on herbs...

Oh god did you see my 5 year old son peeing in the garden earlier? Couldn’t even stop him 😂

DS is recently potty trained and has a thing for weeing the garden. I think it comes from when we have been out and done emergency wees at the side of the road/behind a tree/on the car tyres so now when he's outside he just whips his shorts down and wees before I can say anything to stop him!

*wee obvs

I think it's gross and uncivilised but my husband insists on letting him do it

Nope. Toilet. Used to be able to see the neighbours kids peeing up against their shed from our back window and it always made me feel eugh!

No why would I? The house is right there!

No

No, that’s absolutely grim. I occasionally let toddlers wee outside in a bush in an emergency if no toilets available (huge country park type places) but at that age? In a domestic garden ten feet from the toilet? Absolutely disgusting. My child would be in big trouble for that. It’s the same revolting laziness that means they start using shop doorways on their way home from a night out as teens…

Does your husband do it too? Why else does he insist you let him??

No, and the one time my 5 year old did I told him off. It’s rude, unhygienic, smells, is totally unnecessary and we have a downstairs toilet.

My husband is very "out doorsy" and thinks an alfresco wee is fine. Up in the hills where there's nowhere else to go - I agree - but in your own back garden, in full view of the neighbours, it's unreasonable and grim.

The only time I let my boys pee behind a bush in the garden is when they’ve been playing in the paddling pool so are soaking wet. I don’t want them soaking the floors/toilet seat

To be fair, they had just been playing in the paddling pool but he would allow it regardless of that

Pretty unpleasant for the person who will be doing the weeding.

Do I want them to wee in the garden?
No
Do they?
Yes

But it's HUGE and inhabited by lots of animals so they're not the only ones.

I remember friends visiting and sitting in my garden with their children and one wanted a wee do his Dad said "It's OK you're outside you can wee in the border" I wasn't having that and directed him into the house to wee in the toilet!!

Yes I let my 5 year old 😄 better than having to clean around the toilet where he misses. We live where there’s no houses overlooking and I check where he’s weeing. Don’t see how it’s ‘rude’, he only does it at home sometimes and uses the toilet fine elsewhere.

Where does he draw the line then with the alfresco thing? Front garden? School playground? In the middle of the pitch during 5 a side? What if they need a poo - does he have a little trowel in the garden too?!

@AlfieandAnnieRose if you had immediate neighbours who have a very clear view of your garden, would you still be ok with it?