boys urinating on playground

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3441954/Primary-school-headteacher-warns-parents-stop-letting-children-urinate-playground-lessons-stern-letter-toilet-etiquette.html

This is true of our nearby playground. There are a few Eastern European mothers who let their boys take a p* on the playground. Yesterday one boy 5 or 6 years dropped his pants for everyone to see and pi*ed on the playground without turning around or at least going to the farthest corner.

"Your anecdotal information means bugger all op. You seeing a couple of ee mothers do this, doesn't make it a norm"

I am not aware that I intends my post to mean anything much at all, more like venting.

Also, I believe you are projecting paul. I said nowhere that this was the norm, i simply stated my observations and how i feel about them. You are the one who is adding a generalising layer by mentioning "Liverpool, London, Glasgow, Edinburgh".

I think perhaps you need to consult a dictionary on the meaning of projecting...

So, you don't believe it is the norm but you chose to slip in the fact they are EE to what? Be prejudicial? If you don't consider it to be the norm within their culture why was it relevant in your op?

I don't mind being picked at, otherwise I would have hardly posted on AIBU.
I still think it is nasty behaviour but I am astonished at all the interesting comments about being inhibited, racist etc. there is a hell of a lot of projecting going on here. I do it too, so never mind. I would have felt just as appalled if the mum had been American or Scottish. If she and been English, I might have made a reference to other aspects maybe, not sure.

If we are going all psycho-analytical my prime objective in posting was to vent my frustration at ostentatious urinating and leaving puddles of wee on the playground. I have no beef with EE, why should I?

Then why did you feel it relevant in your original post?

i hear RAYCISMSM and automatically hear Muslamic RAY Guns (RAY guns RAY guns....), AIBU?

"So, you don't believe it is the norm but you chose to slip in the fact they are EE to what? Be prejudicial"

How is stating a fact 'prejudicial'? How does the sentence "I do not believe, in fact I know, that not all EE behave in this way" suggest that I think this is the norm? Another poster said that it is more 'normal' in EE. It makes sense that this behaviour was normal to this mother as well as a couple of other EE mothers who do this at the playground. This is what I have observed. You are drawing conclusions from it.

Reminds me of the asian mother who held her son up to pee in the rubbish bin in our city mall.

Hmmm
Would much rather have my children see an East European child have a wee then a grown British man. And I bet I know which out of the two does it more

I only let my dog wee in the park, never my son.

Hth

It is a filthy habit for adults and non toilet training children. If you have to go, be discreet about it, not where children play. I don't think it's necessarily a cultural thing, as I have seen British men after they have had a few Bevvies on a night out.

Unlikely to have been Eastern European. School in question (Daily Mail article) is in a very white, middle class area. Shocking assumptions.

The issue is that you chose to include the information that the mothers are Eastern European (as if Eastern Europe is a homogenous mass). Why?

You could have brought up any other characteristic that the mothers you've seen share. Maybe they're tall, thin, dark haired, etc. But you didn't, presumably because you didn't feel any of that was relevant.

But you clearly did think that the mothers bring Eastern European was relevant to your point, or you wouldn't have mentioned it.