to be unhappy at a child peeing in the pool?

[NotQuiteCockney]

In the pool today, a toddler stood up, pulled down his swimming costume and peed in the pool. His mum just smiled.

Ok, I know the pool is full of pee, fine. But come on! This is just not on, is it?

Oh, I don't think peeing in the flower bed is at all the same. I'd rather my DS peed somewhere a bit more private, but a flowerbed would be ok.

Yes, I did wonder whether this little boy might think pooing was ok, too? I didn't get to find out, luckily.

No staff saw it, I don't think. There was only one lifeguard I could see, and the peeing boy had his back to the lifeguard. (And it was a very short wee - I think the boy was doing it for novelty, his mum had taken him to the loo just before, as I ran into them in there!)

At any rate, I don't think any staff saw. I don't know what they would have done.

ewwww thats nasty

Lyra

my dd is being a bit of a nightmare to potty train and came in from the garden yesterday and proudly announced she had done a pee (cant say wee wee here its french for noddy ) when we said thats good where she said in the garden hope the neighbours didnt see

this reminds me of a notice I saw at a swimming pool years ago; "We do not swim in your loos so please don't pee in our pool"

Accidental peeing, fine. Deliberate peeing, also fine. BUT Reaction of mother, absolutely not on. You can't blame the toddlers for doing it, you have to blame the mother for not reacting properly and teaching her child not to.

EEeew. his mom definitely didnt handle that well. blaming her, not the toddler.
yep pools are full of pee, but seeing someone do it, well, it'd put me off!

I remember being shocked when my niece asked to go for a wee and my sister told her to do it in the pool! Someone once said that the urine free section of the pool is like the none smoking area of a pub.

BEar in mind that urine is sterile (unless you have an infection of some sort) and pools are full of chlorine so the amount of wee in them won't actually do you any harm.
Also, it's possible that what you thought was a smug smile was actually a rictus of embarrassment on behalf of the mother. And some schools of toilet training suggest that if you reprimand a LO too much for doing it in the wrong place it sets up further problems...

I think the sea is worse than pools for being polluted with urine etc.

I'd guess that the mum was embarrassed but then I've seen people use the loos before swimming and not bother to wash their hands after 'as we're going to get wet in the pool anyway'.

Madamez, urine may be sterile but the parts it comes out of usually aren't...

The mum should have reacted and told him off. Mnd you I prefer wee in the pool to the time I went swimming and a child was sick and some went in the pool

can understand the childs logic but you'd think the mother would say something along the lines of 'oh well done for realising you need a wee wee but it needs to be done in the toilet, remember toilet for wee wee, swimming pool for swimming' not reprimanding as such but making the child aware this is not the place

although we all know they do it, we still could discourage it!!

Would definitely have told the child that it was wrong to wee in the pool!

I know urine isn't actually a medical risk, but I don't want to knowingly swim in it.

I didn't expect her to shout or hit him. I just expected her to look less proud. (She really didn't look embarassed. I'm sure of it.)

Got to admit that its not something that I would like to see.

But, if you dont want to knowingly swim in urine, never visit a swimming pool!

Maybe she couldn't work out quickly enough which face to put on at that particularly embarassing point in time.

No No No!
Very Wrong!
Not Nice Mother!