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

[HotGlueGun]

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?

Crikey, this thread really shows cultural and regional differences.

My three year old DD wild wees in the garden all the time. In fact, when she was potty training, I used to dilute her wee in the potty and pour it on my beds and pots. It made my potted thyme come up a treat.

Urine is phenomenal stuff. I'd much rather use it than chemical fertilisers. And it really shouldn't smell if it goes on soil.

Nope. Absolutely foul and lazy. Especially at that age! Have words with your husband OP

With all due respect @Packingsoapandwater I really would not want Sunday roast at yours !

@notsogreenthumb

With all due respect *@Packingsoapandwater* I really would not want Sunday roast at yours !

Erm you do realise that most of our sewage is turned into fertiliser which is used in agriculture. You are already eating food which has human waste products on it.

The lack of understanding of environment/ nature on this thread is staggering. Most people seem to be so removed from the food cycle/ countryside practices.

@Packingsoapandwater

Crikey, this thread really shows cultural and regional differences.

My three year old DD wild wees in the garden all the time. In fact, when she was potty training, I used to dilute her wee in the potty and pour it on my beds and pots. It made my potted thyme come up a treat.

Urine is phenomenal stuff. I'd much rather use it than chemical fertilisers. And it really shouldn't smell if it goes on soil.

I have fake grass. So absolutely no weeing in my garden!

@Snookie00 I imagine there are folk on this page the wish to wax lyrical of weekends at the Manor the countryside, yet complain about the abhorrent annoying animal noises to noise control and prefer zoflora scented hay bales for the stables

I have a potty in the garden for my 2yo. She's a farm kid though and often has outside wees in the field. She understands not to wee in the garden but she wants to! Although yesterday she insisted on going in and using the toilet twice instead of the garden potty

@ElonanotAlone

I’m not a hippy alternative type but we are quite interested in permaculture and sustainable agriculture/ gardening techniques. It’s funny how many people on this thread are soo squeamish and close minded about bodily waste and seem to have no idea where their urine/ shit goes when they flush it away using litres of treated drinking water each time. I didn’t even mention composting toilets as that world blow their tiny germ-phobic city dweller minds.

Saying that I totally agree with you @Waxonwaxoff0. Definitely never on artificial grass.

@Snookie00 why do you assume I'm germ phobic?

You asked whether I'd ever been to a wedding with a straw bale instead of a toilet. I answered the question, I have not. My assumption was that you lived in the country somewhere and that weeing on straw was normal for you. Can you not accept that that particular custom would be odd if it were at, say, a 5 star hotel in Mayfair? Or in Wilmslow? Or, frankly, anywhere other than in remote rural areas? And the links you have provided are for festivals, where weeing on straw solves the problem of folk queuing for portal ops for hours. Slightly different to a wedding don't you think?

You seem to assume that I live in some sterile environment.... I don't. I was just raised to know that urinating in public, in view of others (neighbours) is impolite. I'm absolutely positive that even folk in the countryside don't want their menfolk pissing everywhere

porta loos

And I never said that weeing on a straw bale was abhorrent. That was your projection.

Grown men peeing in the garden isn't on, and anyway a dodgy man would be able to use it as an excuse to flash.

Similar to you, I hate it but my husband thinks it's fine. When my oldest was 3 nursery had to speak to me about him weeing in their nature area (outside) which helped me tackle it at home but all 3 of mine still enjoy a wild wee and it drives me crazy.

Wee is great for the compost heap. (We have a big garden that is not overlooked).

DSs used to play a game called Pee from a Tree.where they would climb a tree in our garden and pee from it. They thought it was hilarious.

Our garden is big and not overlooked at all.

It isn't something I would encourage but I don't really have a problem with it. Enough animals pee in it.

I should add that they are adults now and no longer play the game!

I let my 5 year old daughter. It's just wee.

I notice the majority here are allowing their DS to pee wherever they please, do you allow your DDs the same?
For the poster saying if her DS is ‘caught short’ he pees on car tyres, seriously?
Why are boys allowed this behaviour? teach them control ffs

My DS & DD wee in the garden, we have a big garden very private & countryside, totally normal here. We only have one toilet so often have to send one out for an outdoor wee. Its better than dog wee, or chicken poo! Keeps foxes away too. I guess its dependent on setting, totally fine in our world.

No I don’t think kids should do this as standard at all, maybe in an emergency and that’s all.

I’ve also never been to a wedding with a straw bale instead of a toilet.

I didn't let mine pee wherever he pleased and neither did most on this thread, just the occasional one in the garden or out and about if caught short. Same for DD. They didn't grow up to have anti-social weeing habits and our garden didn't suffer for it. I also don't bat an eyelid if I see other small children having an emergency wee in the park or wherever.

I am saddened to read that there are some people who do not insist on their children using a toilet.

How gross! No he can use the toilet.

Because if the habit is there at six it will be very hard to break. What about at ten when you’re having friends round or fifteen at his girlfriend’s house? He’s going to think it’s normal just to drop his pants and go.

Teach him some etiquette regardless of what your husband says! He’s not up a mountain he’s just outside the back door and up the hall from a fully working toilet. Also in summer it will smell 🤢

It's really not a hard habit to break, just not a problem at all.

Am worried you are my neighbour and have seen my revolting child weeing in the garden....