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?

Also must be really hard to see close enough to realise that a a baby is sat peeing on the hard shoulder whilst you whizz by at 70 mph

Well, not really.

After all, one looks ahead whdn driving!

It was a rest stop.

Do you mean a service station? Or was this not in the UK?

"By the side of the motorway" usually means the hard shoulder.

Lola it's pretty damn distressing to be run over on the hard shoulder. A lot more than wetting oneself.

"Yesterday 22:39 opheliacat

Well, not really.

After all, one looks ahead whdn driving!"

Well yes. And the hard shoulder isn't ahead, unless you are driving along it.

No.

Thanks for all your comments, DS took his first wee at near the park today!

We went outside the fenced area to the grassy bit where people exercise their dogs, and he weed in the hedgerow.

If it's good for dogs it's good for toddlers will be my new mantra. Thanks!

Yes, if there are no toilets nearby and it's an emergency (you won't make it to the closest toilet). The playground close to our house is in a rural village. There are no public toilets. The closest toilet (unless I want to knock on a stranger's house) is at our house, a 10 minute drive away. We make sure we go before we leave home, but in an emergency, yes, she goes wherever as I think it's certainly better than her wetting herself in the car on the way home. If it's somewhere you can readily access a public toilet or a Costa or a pub or somewhere you could use a toilet, I think you need to go there. As long as it's not in play areas (like literally in play areas), I can't see how it's a problem. Urine is sterile and causes no public health threat (poo, obviously is a different story).