To be shocked by what I saw

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Last night, having a meal at 7 in a nice pub and a parent got their child to use the potty by their table. This isn't normal, is it?!

fuck off daily mail and other so-called journalistic scumbags who are so devoid of talent that they need Mumsnetters to write their copy for them. And then fuck off some more. Pond life the lot of you.

Not happy about being quoted.

Me either

Journos get paid to write articles where the fuck is everyone's pay for their contribution

Utterly foul. Reminds me of a woman letting her daughter (about 4 y.o) piss all down the floor of a bus we were on once. Dirty cow. It was only 5 minutes between each stop. She could have easily got off.

I know this is a public message board, but it does piss me off when rags like the daily shitting mail use stories off mumsnet, and quote people's comments in their articles!

I've seen a mum changing a nappy in the middle of the babies soft play - toilet about 6ft away. Another mum changing her babies nappy at the table next to us. Seen a potty under a table at a restaurant once. I don't think its that uncommon for people to be lazy fuckers when it comes to removing their offspring's waste products.

They're not even trying to hide it under the guise of journalism anymore. This was a straight c+p job.
Disgusting and lazy. That's both the MoS and the parents in the pub.

I would have loved to be quoted Come on, Daily Mail, what do I have to write to get a quote? Maybe a picture of myself urinating into a potty, pulling a sad face, wearing a Kim K t shirt?

Wow surely it's a health and safety issue in a restaurant!!!

Yanbu, why not just take the potty into the toilets and let the child use it in there?! how old was the child?

fucking daily mail!! I've just seen the above posts.. why don't they just fuck off..

I would have complained to the parents, not give some poor waitress/waiter a hard time (and expect them to then speak to the parents by which time it would be finished. I have an image of them then carrying said full potty through the restaurant.
Getting a potty out like that is, ahem, uncouth and lazy.

I don't care if Daily Mail latches on it or not but this is bloody disgusting. I have never had a portable potty. If we were out and around while potty training I was either holding DD or, later on when she became too heavy, I would be holding her so she doesn't fall into the toilet but I would never let her wee or poo while visible to people.
I don't understand the entitlement of some parents who believe that potty training takes precedent over some common decency. There were few times, when we were hiking when there was no toilet around (for any of us) but other than that DD was taught to hold it. We only had one accident when she was two years old but that's it.

I was once in a cough popular carvery chain cough and a delightful family next to me had a child of 3ish who did 2 wees ON THE CARPETED FLOOR while we were having our meal. He had already done one before we sat down, from the conversation I overheard. The poor staff!

That seems crazy! I don't see how the child had the confidence to squat in the middle of a pub unless this is sort of thing was normal for them.

DC1 didn't use the toilet for months after potty training, found it terrifying even with a smaller kids seat screwed on top (we tried the colourful kids covers too but no luck) a potty was the only thing he was happy to use and we took it everywhere! we'd have to plan those first few weeks when he was going every 2 hours around the nearest toilets. For long car journeys we had a pourty with the absorbent pads, little children can't 'just hold it in' for ages.

God. Aren't journalists able to come up with their own ideas nowdays?

It even went on This Moning....

Good grief this is entitled PFB parenting gone completely mad. What a ridiculous and completely unacceptable thing to do.

If the baby had done a poo she'd have had to walk through the restaurant carrying it to the loo.....

Gross!!!
Once saw a woman changing a child's shitty nappy on a very nice sofa in the lobby of a new shopping centre, and I could see her slyly giving the sofa a quick rub with the old wet wipes!!I could never sit on that sofa again. Just vile.

I was in church about 34 years ago and someone let their child wee in a potty in the pews nearby. it was very loud even if not visible. I think someone must have had a word because the following week they took him down stairs to the toilet in the crypt.

Anyone who takes a potty out is being unreasonable full stop!

You're outside - let them wee on the grass.

You're at the play centre? Take them to the toilet (buy a seat if you must but no need for a potty to be emptied and washed out)

Whilst you're potty training, keep trips out short. You put the hard work in the first 3 days INDOORS at HOME. FFS.

These are the type of parents who still have 3.5 year olds in nappies.

Trained two just turned two year olds (one totally non verbal) in a week. Job done. Yes, it takes effort and hard work but I wasn't shoving potties in peoples faces whilst they were eating!

A few years ago, I was in a nice cafe and a family came in and queued behind me; mum, dad and toddler. Little toddler did a big puddle while they were standing there. Mum and dad both noticed, discussed it, picked up toddler and walked out - they said nothing to the staff! I know it's embarrassing when your child does that (been there!) but to notice and leave without mentioning to the staff is grim.

What utter filthy pigs. How disconnected from normal society and arrogant to you have to be to think doing this is ok, inflicting your child's shit on a whole room, in public. God that's disgusting.
You would be thrown out on your ear if you did that here. And you would deserve it.

Well, I am not sure if some people realise how unhygienic a pub floor is anyway, chances are the floor seen it all in term of bodily fluids (hopefully not the sexual type I hope)! If is a dirty place so more chocked with a toddler crawling on the floor actually! What would you have said if the child had done his business (read he was a boy) at the table. As everyone knows a pooey chair is so much better! I love the: Is this in the UK or take him to the ladies obviously mum's job of course and has to be foreigners. Well I'd rather see a child do his things anywhere than reading this, shameful indeed.

This thread reminds me of a history lesson in my yoof, when we learned entitled wealthy people used chamber pots during the lengthy sermons in church.

It's really effing annoying that the Fail do that isn't it. To$$ers. Might change my user name to the 'Mailareshitz' or similar.