To think that peeing in the middle of a children's playground is not acceptable

[MollieO]

Just witnessed a 3.5 yr old peeing on the soft tarmac next to play equipment. The playground is in a large park with plenty of places around the edge to pee. Or they could have walked 100 yds down a traffic free path to use the toilets in the library. Or walk 150 yds to pee in their own house. Am now watching younger sibling crawl near where the older one peed. Ugh.

Are you posting from the playground? Can we get live updates?

Was this an accidental peeing? My DD peed in the playground on several occasions when she was potty training.

Gross and unnecessary - unless he/she was truly, truly desperate and about to wet themselves i suppose.

No grandma pulled his trousers and pants down and told him where to go. Then she put baby down to crawl near it. Next she put baby in those big round swings and pushed him until he fell over from sitting. She has just put baby on the roundabout. If she puts him on the top of the slide I may have to say something!

I've never found the need to let ds pee in the park. We live further away too. I can understand being caught short but it is a huge park and she only needed to walk 10 yds to find a bush.

Was the peeing child doing it on their own or was there a parent with them allowing them to do it?

My DS once peed up a wall in the minature village at a well known UK theme park. He was not quite 3 at the time and hadn't long been toilet trained, so it was just a mistake and I didn't get to him fast enough to stop it. I was absolutely mortified and the surrounding adults were 50/50 either laughing or giving me catsbumface! Sometimes it's just a mistake. That was the last time he went out in public wearing jogging pants anyway!

Ah x-post. In that case grandma was totally out of order.

Yuck!

But lol at the live updates!

think it's something older people find acceptable

They've gone now. I will look out for damp patches on the tarmac path when we walk home. Have to say if my mother had ever done the same with ds I'd have been furious.

I would definitely be giving Grandma my best cats-bum-face, there is no need for that!

I have no problem with little ones having a discrete pee in the bushes, or if the little boy had done it like the instance pjmama describes.

But seriously, yuck! She sounds a sandwich short of a picnic.

If not by accident then not acceptable.

On grass by tarmac would have been fine IMO.

DD had an accidental wee when waiting in the queue for the slide when she was newly trained

If he was panicking there was no audible or visual sign ( they were about 10 yds from me - I gave her a look).