to think that the entranceway to Tescos is not the BEST place to sit your boy on his potty?

[fryalot]

I mean, couldn't they have taken him to the free public tescos toilet?

Does everyone have to see this poor little lad doing his business on their way to do their shopping?

I don't think IABU, I cannot think of a single reason why this would be okay. Can you enlighten me?

fucking hell, misi! that's awful!

I wouldn't bat an eyelid. I would just think 'oh, the early days of potty training!' and feel total empathy.

Frankly I've seen a whole lot worse things in my life than a small child having a wee.

yes it is absolutely disgusting. my sister was at work there at the time too, my BIL now does not want her working there as she works evenings/nights anymore. the bloke wasn't caught at the time but was caught on CCTV so hopefully its only a matter of time before they catch him and lop off his balls, sling him away for a good many years

or down a drain that are every where in the car parks if absolutely necessary?

malory - that was one of the things that I thought about.

spud - as I said in the thread title, it wasn't the fact that the child was on a potty in public, it was where the potty was - there were much better places for it to have been put than the entranceway to a big shop!

misi - hope they throw the book at him - bastard

OK, agree I'm being a killjoy...

I would object if it was an adult, but not a child. Just don't think it's the same. As for the viable preferable alternative, supermarket toilets are not exactly the most child-friendly places. Can't even get a pram through the doors, they stink, no steps for kids to wash their hands at the sink, water gives third degree burns etc...

would the car park have been acceptable? i know when my cousins were potty training they used to wee up the wheel of the car and before they mastered standing up weeing on their potty by the car.

a viable, preferable alternative would have been on the other side of the wall, outside tescos if they didn't want to use the actual toilet.

As I keep saying, it wasn't the fact that the child was using a potty, it was the fact that the potty was in Tescos entranceway and people were having to dodge around the small child having a wee

I was with my friend in Starbucks the other day. Her dd said she needed a wee and friend plonked her on the potty in the middle of Starbucks!

I didn't know where to look or what to say.

While I was collecting some cold drinks from the Speedferries terminal cafe a man wandered past me carrying an open potty brimming with widdle and a large turd bobbing around in it. I know he was looking for the loos, but the sight was a bit of a shocker.
Dd has now mastered the al fresco wee posture and spent a lot of time on holiday practising in different environments

I get quite annoyed with the people who choose to smoke right in the doorway - they are barely out of the building. No one going through the door has a chance to not breathe in the smoky air. My local 'massive' tesco has loads of people like this outside.

Am actually trying to shop less in the supermarkets and more in local shops but that is off topic

so what is the consensus. is letting your toddler wee on a potty by your car frowned upon or not?

Fortunately her dd didn't piddle. I imagine she would have wandered through Starbucks with the brimming potty in the style of Marina's ferry man.

In that very first week where we had a potty with us just in case, a couple of times I put dd on the potty on the passenger seat. No one passing would have known she was sitting on the pot. The only downside is that my car smells very slightly of wee on hot days now.

We have a folding Tommee Tippee potty for the car and it has been a boon on French motorways where occasionally the aire de service loos were like the pit of Hades.
Agree that from a young age it's a great idea to get them to use the loo or wee behind a tree.

I think carrying a potty around is a bit of a pfbish thing. I did for a week with dd. I don't imagine I will for ds.

I know a woman who has taken a potty everywhere with her for about 3 months now.

I am imagining Malory's mum stalking her dgds with one of these and then singing Rock of Ages, or Lead, Kindly Light, while they perform

i was at Pennywell Farm yesterday and some kid was sat on a potty in the middle of the toddlers' play area

kids zooming past on tractors

toilet about 1 yard away

There's no chance I suppose that all us mums of older children are not mistaking Bumbos for potties...?