to think encouraging a child to wee in the street is inappropriate?

[HeyNannyNanny]

I'm upstairs in my house with the windows wide open to air out last nights fish and chips let in the lovely sunshine.
We live on a reasonably busy residential street.
I hear a family walk down the road (think its Mum, friend/sister and son) chatting to each other loudly.
Suddenly I hear the Mum say "right, I need to make you do a wee" (actual words) and then "trousers down".
I glance out the window to see the son (perhaps 4 or 5 years old) in the middle of the pavement with his trousers and pants around his ankles, holding his willy and weeing into a plastic tub the Mum is holding in front of him.
She's encouraging him loudly ending with "that's right. Now shake it. Well done."

I completely understand that children always need to wee at the worst times but AIBU to think in the middle of the street, in plain view with cars driving past and people in their gardens is just a bit off?

There are 2 pubs which are less than 2 mins walk away, as well as plenty of countryside areas to surreptitiously wee in if its an emergency.

There are lots of things animals do that humans don't and vice versa. What a daft argument.

Disgusting.

Child should be in pull-ups if he can't hold his urine.

Maybe he has a medical issue

May have had a medical condition with requires regular empting of his bladder.

Perhaps he needs to wee at regular intervals?

Sounds odd that the mother was instigating it by saying that she needed him to do a wee as opposed to the son being caught short iyswim.

All I can think is that maybe the child has some kind of medical issue, and she needed to make him wee every twenty minutes or something? I dunno...

He might be having his kidneys checked, you need a days urine for one of those tests.

Ah Jessbow-that's what I was trying to say"!

What kind of SEN do we think this woman has that makes her tell her child to pee in a container in the street?

I'm being sarky but only because every parent of a SEN child (including me when I had one), that I have ever met, has always taken trouble to be considerate of the child and others. I get fed up of seeing poor parenting being put down to the child having SEN.

It's the encouraging a child to pee publicly in the street that's odd. Totally different if it's an emergency wee of course - then you just do your best to get them to the best place you can without anyone getting wet.

Usual I'm a wheelchair user and have quite often inadvertently wheeled through dogshit on the pavement and once a parent held a child to wee on the pavement which went all over my wheels. Unlike shoes, I can't discard my wheelchair wheels when I enter the house, and if there is no one else with me I can't even clean them off, so I do think poo and urine in public places is revolting, myself.

Medical condition or not, the sample shouldn't be collected on the public street. That's a feeble excuse for an antisocial act.

Some people seem to have lost all notion of standards of public decorum.

The container sounds odd, unless mum needed a sample.
some people don't like entering pubs, especially if they don't know the area and they aren't public conveniences, they are for patrons of the pub.

We used to be held over grids until we were about 5 years old in my day, or you'd go behind a bush in the country.
It's such a shame that public toilets have been closed down, most inconvenient

How can you "make" someone wee, even if it was medically necessary?

A wee cheeky pee if your caught short, no harm.

The phrase "public decorum" makes me want to moon, or streak, or do something entirely harmless but deeply offensive to "the public decorum"...

So what, usual? They're animals, it's what they do. Not comparable to carrying a container around for the sole purpose of "making" your child wee in it.

Blimey, they grow out of it, don't they? They're small kids...hardly revolting.
Whenever I see a kid weeing in a lay-by, I always think aww and reminisce.

Well if there's no rain, it doesn't wash away.

Imagine wearing a pair of shoes which you cannot take off, and that frequently you have no choice but to walk in these shoes over dogpiss, or shit. Then you have to wear these shoes into the house.

Surely dog shit is a far, far greater issue - both in terms of damage and frequency - than small kids wee.
It is in my area.

How can you "make" someone wee, even if it was medically necessary?

You press the area below the belly button and above the groin. I've had a doctor do it to me before.

I wouldn't like to see that. It might encourage him grow up to be one of those people who pisses in the street on the journey home from the pub.

Like you OP, I live in the middle of town, and the route between bars and the local meat market "nite club". I've got a cellar, with a window, with a grate in the pavement. I hate the thought of someone pissing down it thinking it was a drain, then having to clean stale piss off the window. This unfortunate incident did happen.

And I want to know what the mother did with the container afterwards! I think the op is too busy looking out of the window for judging opportunities, to come back