To think of your kid pees in the soft play then you should be responsible for paying for it to be cleaned?

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I've lost the link to the story so apologies for that!

Just read an article about a woman who was fined because her son had an accident (wee) in the soft play she went to. Think it was the equivalent of £50. Now, I understand that accidents happen but in this case:

The boy in question was only 2 1/2. The mum said that he'd had accidents out of the house before since stopping wearing nappies several months before

The soft play owner said it cost approx. £60 to have the area closed and cleaned and she only asked the mum to cover £50 of this

The boy had had an accident in the same soft play before albeit a slightly different area.

Apparently she thinks they ABU to charge her as there was no signage to indicate that a fine would be applicable in this event (although there is now) but AIBU in thinking that actually this is reasonable? The section of soft play would have to be closed so it could be cleaned and sanitised before being able to be reopened, possibly incurring a loss of income, plus the cost of the cleaning products and staff member's time.

What do you think?

Also ball pits aren’t a thing in my local softplay centres, they’ve intentionally taken the balls out because it’s virtually impossible to sanitise them all.

No, not reasonable. A business that caters primarily for small children should anticipate some accidents of this nature, and I would expect this to be priced in.

Yuk. Put him in some pull ups. It's disgusting to leave a child not toilet trained in public areas where other children play. He could have done a small wee unnoticed and other kids would have been playing in it 🤮

Fifty AUD to clear up a bit of wee? What a joke! They're kids, and young ones at that. Accidents happen.