Acceptable to let 3yo DS wee at edge of playground?

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Is it deemed acceptable to allow your (not long out of nappies) 3yo to have a little wee in the bushes in the corner of the playground, to avoid having an accident? For context, the playground is semi-rural and has lots of greenery along two edges to soak up aforementioned piddle...

OK or not OK?

Weeing in gutters and drains is disgusting. Sorry, but it is really horrible.

Better than wetting themselves and therefore weeing on the floor of the shop or on the pavement!

Fine in bushes but not acceptable if said bushes are within school grounds.

When there is an emergency elizabeth but a lot of parents especially those with boys just have them wee wherever they feel like it, which is unpleasant.

Bushes are definitely fine I reckon, a nature wee!

What I do hate though is parents holding their children up on the side of a pavement whilst they do a wee in full view of everyone. I get that when a child has to go they have to go but at least try for somewhere a bit more discreet! Children deserve dignity too.

To the people saying that it's not ok, would you rather they wee themselves? You would rather see an upset child, uncomfortable in wet clothes than have a child wee in the bushes? Some people's priorities are fucked up.

Hellywelly 'It may be appropriate to go home and use the loo there?'

You know a toddler that can hold a wee in for 25 minutes? Are there also unicorns living in your attic?

Peeing in drains and gutters is perfectly sensible. There really are some special snowflakes on this thread.

Yep, fine just outside the play area, if it's fenced off. I did see someone getting out a porta-potty once and letting her DD pee in that, right in the middle of the playground. Would have been fine if there had been a bag in it...

OP ignore the people who are saying it is unacceptable, he is 3 years old for goodness sake!! as long as it is discreet and away from everyone else it's fine, but I will say the cut of period for letting children pee in public should be age 5.

Loyalty I love the idea of a kid showing id to pee in the bush

You can't beat a good nature wee! Outside of the play area though, better than an accident on the slide!

Yes it's fine

Of course. Iron not like your aiming it up a swing or anything. It'll be rained on soon!

Wow I'm really surprised at some of these responses! DS has just turned 3 and only recently potty trained and I have considered the playground one of our safe places to go while potty training. There are no toilets, and no surrounding parkland outside of the playground bit. There's definitely no way he could hold on till we get home, so I always take the potty with me and every now and again he does really need it. I thought that was perfectly fine, but now I'm wondering if all the parents in the playground are disgusted with me!

No - DS school sends out messages with 'please do not let your child use our playground and field as a toilet'. Joyful.

You lot who are so aghast at toddlers weeing near a slide...do you have special teen-proof playgrounds near you? All the ones in my area have teenagers hanging about most evenings. Sometimes drinking, sometimes not. None have loos (v rural, naice village). Is teenager piss more or less evil? Because they're not going home to use the loo....

The clue is in the name - potty training. Not pee anywhere as long as it isn't your pants training!

Obviously there will be times where there is an emergency but using the whole of the outdoors as a giant toilet? Gross.

IN the playground (I'm imagining a tarmac or spongy playground surface with swings and slides and a fence round the edge) NO. Outside the fence in a bush YES. School playground- NO!

As to the "what else can you do, they're 3 and potty training"- teach them to have a wee before you leave the house. That is surely the normal thing to do. Then, unless you are at the playground for hours and hours, they don't need to wee there.

And beware that they might say wee, but they mean poo...

I let mine do it as if the choice is that it wet themselves the wee will go on the ground anyway. When they were younger I carried a potty around with me but then threw the wee from that into bushes anyway.

Tawdry DGS has one of the new potties with a handle and a lid, they're great. But if your DC pees in it (say on the edge of a playground in an urban area) what do you do with the contents? If it gets tipped out surely it's the same as peeing right there. Can you close those potties and take it somewhere suitable? I don't know the answer.

There are some really uptight people on this thread if a toddler needs to go then they need to go, the edge of the park Is better than standing on the slide weeing down it

Yes, holdthewine, the potty seals closed so you can empty the contents down the loo at home.

Today DS decided he needed a wee as we were trudging through Finsbury Park station. I'm not saying deploying the potty in a side tunnel was the highlight of my weekend, but it does come in handy at times like that.

Which brings me back to wondering what all the people whose children can't hold it for the 10 seconds it would take to get out of the playground would have done? Bush wee in the tube station?

Piss is piss. Of course it's not acceptable. Would you leave your own urine there?

And, yes, outside the playground, if caught short, but not up behind the benches or near the fence, inside the playground. Thin about what youd want your own toddler wading through (ie not 200ml of barely soaked in wee)