Weeing in Jug - Do I need to worry

Neetsmassi · 2003-09-07T20:40:19+00:00

For the second time my three year old daughter told me she was going to the toilet and then went to the bathroom and did her wee in the jug that we keep in there for washing her hair. When I asked her why she said she didn't know why. Surely it must be easier to wee on the loo than manoevre yourself to get it all in to a much smaller jug! In all other respects she is a happy well balanced child (that's my opinion anyway) Has this happened to anybody else?

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misdee · 07/09/2003 21:43

maybe u should hide the jug

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Neetsmassi · 07/09/2003 21:45

I have now - but WHY does she want to do it? Hopefully just to prove that she can!

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twiglett · 07/09/2003 21:47

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Neetsmassi · 07/09/2003 21:49

Thanks Twiglett - I too found it hard not to laugh whilst trying to tell her she shouldn't do it. Do you think this is what she will do when she is older and very drunk?

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twiglett · 07/09/2003 21:51

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Neetsmassi · 07/09/2003 21:53

Thanks for making me feel better Twiglett - fingers crossed that there is no repeat performance tomorrow.

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jodee · 07/09/2003 23:23

Erm, ds was absolutely desperate for a wee while we were driving in France this summer - unfortunately we were in heavy traffic in a very bad hail storm so no way to stop the car and get out ... I had to get ds out of his car seat so he could wee in an empty water bottle!
We then had a few weeks of him weeing whilst in the bath into an empty shampoo bottle, but the novelty soon wore off!

samACon · 07/09/2003 23:37

My brother used to do it all the time, he had a special orange cup he was really attached to. He did stop doing it eventually ( at least I hope he has - hes 25 now!)

A three year olds quite small compared to the toilet, when I see my son perched up there it always looks like he's about to disappear down it - maybe your dd is feeling a little insecure up there?

Hughsie · 08/09/2003 10:30

My niece was doing really well with potty training until she sat on top of her dolls house to wee all over it!

I had top chuckle as she is so perfect in everything she does

Wills · 08/09/2003 11:14

Neetsmassi - your three year old dd sounds like mine. After almost a year (she's 3.5) of being potty trained she suddenly took to peeing in strange items like jugs much to our horror. At one point we thought it was because she couldn't be bothered to go upstairs to the toilet but like yours at one point she went upstairs and still proceeded to find a jug to wee in. The best(or worst) case was at a friends where she found a play tea pot and proceeded to wee in that much to the horror of our male friend. He subsequently finds it really funny and hasn't stopped telling everyone else - grrr .

Not much help in how to cure it but she hasn't done it recently....

Wills · 08/09/2003 11:14

Neetsmassi - your three year old dd sounds like mine. After almost a year (she's 3.5) of being potty trained she suddenly took to peeing in strange items like jugs much to our horror. At one point we thought it was because she couldn't be bothered to go upstairs to the toilet but like yours at one point she went upstairs and still proceeded to find a jug to wee in. The best(or worst) case was at a friends where she found a play tea pot and proceeded to wee in that much to the horror of our male friend. He subsequently finds it really funny and hasn't stopped telling everyone else - grrr .

Not much help in how to cure it but she hasn't done it recently....

Wills · 08/09/2003 11:14

Neetsmassi - your three year old dd sounds like mine. After almost a year (she's 3.5) of being potty trained she suddenly took to peeing in strange items like jugs much to our horror. At one point we thought it was because she couldn't be bothered to go upstairs to the toilet but like yours at one point she went upstairs and still proceeded to find a jug to wee in. The best(or worst) case was at a friends where she found a play tea pot and proceeded to wee in that much to the horror of our male friend. He subsequently finds it really funny and hasn't stopped telling everyone else - grrr .

Not much help in how to cure it but she hasn't done it recently....

Wills · 08/09/2003 11:14

OK - bad keyboard day!

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Neetsmassi · 08/09/2003 11:33

Wills - have just seen your reply - sorry but it made me laugh out loud - although I'm sure I won't be laughing if my dd oes it at someone else's house.

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Metrobaby · 08/09/2003 11:42

Something similar happened to my dd a couple of weekends ago. She is coming up for 3 and been fully trained for 9 months now. However one day at Grandmas, she deposited a no2 in the bedside cabinet! She had even closed the cabinet door so i never noticed at first. Luckily she told me it was there or else I don't think no-one would have noticed for ages. I have no idea why she did it as the loo is nearby, but thankfully she's never done it again. Luckily DH did the honours of clearing it up.

monkey · 08/09/2003 16:08

My ds like to pee i the bath jug too. I suppose i would if I could - saves actually getting out of the bath for a quick wee. And I'd rather he weed in the jug than in the bath - especially as both ds's share bath and not unknown to drinking some of it.

If she's doing it and not in the bath, it must be my ds's stock answer to any occasion we ask him why he's done something - Just for fun!

SofiaAmes · 08/09/2003 21:18

My ds loves the idea of weeing everywhere but the toilet. Luckily he asks me first and respects my declarations of where it is ok to do a wee (down the drain in the bath - ok, in the bidet - not ok, in the back garden - not ok, on a bush by the side of the motorway - ok, on his sister in the bath - NOT ok). I thought it was just a guy thing (you know, peeing on things to mark their territory). I remember having to stop my very very very drunk dh from peeing on our front door when we got home from a night out because he couldn't wait for me to open it so he could go in the toilet inside.

tigermoth · 08/09/2003 21:42

My 4 year old wee-ed and (horror or horrors)poo-ed on the pavement outside our house yesterday. I think it was in protest about his bike being too small for him. We had just got back from a park where we had hired out a huge tricycle for him. Cue major tantrum on our return.

Paula71 · 08/09/2003 22:42

No help but a good story anyway.

When he was 3 my nephew stuck his widdler in the video machine and peed! He did this a couple of times before realising you could post other things through the slot and when opened the vcr was a treasure trove of little things that had gone missing in recent weeks!

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moosh · 09/09/2003 15:29

Think its a boy thing. My ds will pee anywhere and I have to run and stop him from pulling his trousers and pants down in the middle of the shopping centre or in the park out in the open. I have to drag him off to find a tree in the park or a toilet if we are shopping. But have you noticed that when they grow up, they do it. Don't go out anymore, but when I did go clubbing e.t.c. you see them all lining up along alleyways, street corners up against bus shelters. Thats men/boys for you if they gotta go,they gotta go. DH still does it now if we are out for the night and at 34 it's highly embarassing, no shame!! Good thing a night out is a little rare these days.

SamboM · 09/09/2003 15:30

lol Beetroot

SamboM · 09/09/2003 15:31

Someone who came to a party of mine weed in the toaster (he thought it was a urinal? Freak)