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Do you let your children wee in other people's gardens?

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LaVitaBellissima · 27/09/2011 19:47

Just interested.....

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LaVitaBellissima · 27/09/2011 20:49

whistly - whistfully (sp)

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garlicnutty · 27/09/2011 20:53

I'm a bit in love with your DD, NoNoNo

And, yes, of course they will do it at 13. And 18. And possibly at 23.

MamaMaiasaura · 27/09/2011 20:57

My dh is finding this thread hilarious he's taking the piss out of it

LimburgseVlaai · 27/09/2011 21:09

The number of turds I've had to bury over time! DD1 used to be a great one for announcing she needed a poo or wee just before she dropped her knickers and went for it - usually in a park.

If we're anywhere near a loo the DDs hold on and go there. This also applies to other people's gardens, unless the owner of the garden suggests the hedge. At home they often pee in the garden.

CocktailQueen · 27/09/2011 21:21

No! Maybe when potty training but then I took a portable potty with us, or our own one into the garden at home,. If we're out for a walk in a country park and he gets caught short then fine, but NOT in someone's garden!

dreamfeeder · 27/09/2011 21:30

nonono, I like it. There's enough to get het up about in this life without adding wild wees. My step sister once sent both boys needing a wee into the bushes in a big park in a city. They went literally into the middle of a rose garden (not behind the proper, bigger bushes like she'd hoped) and had very public wees!!

eggyAllenPoe, we do lots of countryside walks and I am forever having to take advantage of a handy bush... Not looking forward to having it publicly ridiculed by DD when she's big enough to get it!!!!!

MissMap · 29/09/2011 16:45

When one of my DC was in reception class one of the other mothers used to whip a bright yellow potty out from under her pram and allow her 3 year old to use it in full view of all the other children trouping past, along the lane to school.

She then used to tip it into the hedge.

Her child had a very rude nick name amongst their peers for a number of years. Even now they are teenagers they still have a snigger about it.

Silly woman!

verytellytubby · 29/09/2011 17:34

No.

Don't let them wee in my own garden.

pigletmania · 29/09/2011 17:59

I dint allow dd 4.5 to wee in my garden let alone anybody elses. Itsbad manners

utterlyslutterly · 29/09/2011 18:06

I'm forever catching my 8 yr old DS weeing behind the hedge in our garden. Lazy so and so can't be bothered to wander the 20 or so meters to the toilet.

I used to tell him off about it - now I pick my battles, given that the outdoor peeing is one of his lesser misdemeanors!

pigletmania · 29/09/2011 18:12

Well I used to put a potty in my garden when toilet training, when dd needed a wee she would use it. As she got more reliable we put it away. Of course if they have an accident than you cant help it, but when toilet training I used to try dd on the toilet at regular intervals in my house and in friends houses, so there was no need for her to use the garden. My friends also had young dcs so would put a potty out in the garden for dd when she was tt.

monkeyfacegrace · 29/09/2011 18:13

Christ, piss snobbery. Now Ive heard it all.
My dd, 4, and ds, 2, always wee under the tree in our garden. Im not having them tramp their dirty/sandy feet through my house for a little piddle.

My two pups pee in the garden, Im sure as shit not bothered by the kids doing it.

disclaimer, at other peoples houses they use a toilet

pigletmania · 29/09/2011 18:15

I used to carry a travel potty, and if dd needed a wee when out and about and no toilets near, I would whip it out somewhere discreet not in the middle of the street. there are times when I have had to take her behind a bush or tree if we are somewhere with no facilities (she has SN), but that is very rare.

Blu · 29/09/2011 18:17

It's been known to happen.
But not now he is 10.
I hope.

pigletmania · 29/09/2011 18:18

No monkey its good manners, they are not dogs they can learn to go to the toilet if there is one nearby. Would it be ok for them then when older if they feel like a piss to pull their pants down in somebodies garden or in public, because its ok dogs do it I understand that they are still young and if they are caught short than find a bush or tree when there are no toilets available.

pigletmania · 29/09/2011 18:18

but when they get older this is not acceptable.

MamaMaiasaura · 29/09/2011 20:14

This still going? Lol. Kids get to an age when they are embarrassed etc and grow out of it. I never "toilet trained"y ds2, he decided a week off third birthday he wanted to wear pants and put wees in loo or garden had less than 5 accidents and no power struggle etc. The idea of being prissy about peeing in the flower beds would have likely caused unnecessary issues. Far more important things to worry about IMO

jen127 · 30/09/2011 11:33

We did have DH and Ds (7) and four of his friends camping in our back garden. I came out to find them all fertilizing the plants in a neat little row!
Not the norm but IMHO an approved exception