Well this photo will look awfully familiar to those of us with little boys: Maci Bookout's 3-year-old son Bentley peeing the bushes. By the garbage cans, naturally. Maci tweeted the image with the caption, "classy..." A-yup, yup, yup, peeing in public: It's a male's prerogative the boys learn early. (And by the way, that photo is adorbs.)
Have you been there? Like potty training isn't hard enough. Once they figure out how easy it is to whip Peter out and water some flowers, there's almost no stopping them! Go indoors and use a toilet? WHY.
Why?!? Because that's what civilized people do!
Whatever. Being civilized is so not a priority to most 3-year-olds. In my neighborhood there have been long, angry debates over whether you should allow your child to pee in public. I admit, I've let my son take a discreet whizz in public a time or two when we were nowhere near toilets and he was about to have an accident. That was when he was still learning.
But I feel like once you open the door to public pee pee, it's so hard to close it! I mean, I think a mom's gotta do what a mom's gotta do. And really, it's not THAT big a deal when they're so little. But once you let them do it a time or two, it just becomes too easy to resist. Next thing you know, you turn around and there he is again, hosing down your roses.
Does it help to say they do eventually grow out of it? At least my son did. He hit a modesty phase, a phase I'm treasuring. Suddenly the idea of peeing in public just became SO EMBARRASSING. Where did this sudden sense of propriety come from? It's wonderful! I hope it lasts his entire life.
So hang in there Maci and other moms. They don't pee in public forever. Well, most of them don't, anyway.
Does your kid ever pee in public? Do you think it's all right?
Image via MaciBookoutMTV/Twitter
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my 3 year old peed off the 2nd story balcony at an upscale hotel at Disneyland onto a couple cars...or the time he dropped his shorts and peed at the packed grocery store during a huge sale. Boys will pee where ever, when ever with who ever is around to see. This is normal and good for Maci as seeing it as a normal boy thin.g
I have 2 boys, and they don't pee in public, because they're not animals. And that picture? Reflects all the class and style I'd expect from a star of Teen Mom.
I've banned kids from my home for peeing in my yard - the second time, after they were told not to do it the first time. I couldn't believe I actually had to explain to the moms that their 8 year old kid was no longer welcome to come over because he saw fit to relieve himself in my backyard. "What's the big deal?" Well, I give you 2 big deals - your kid's a lazy pig, and my yard isn't a toilet.
The pic itsself to a normal functioning human being is absolutely cute and funny (i have pics of my son doing that same) but disgusting waste of human beings out there will save pictures like this and distribute them to other perverts, so I wouldn't post them to the public, maybe in a text message to daddy or a family member. She should really use her brain!!!!
The pic itsself to a normal functioning human being is absolutely cute and funny (i have pics of my son doing the same) but disgusting waste of human beings out there will save pictures like this and distribute them to other perverts, so I wouldn't post them to the public, maybe in a text message to daddy or a family member especially with her having so many followers and I can bet 15% of her followers are fanatic weirdos, She should really use her brain, Come on Maci jeez!!!!
You aren't always near a bathroom and I know my 2 year old has a small bladder I'd rather it be on a tree or the grass than in his pants.
My husband is a full-blown mountain man with 4 brothers and no sisters. To this day, he pees in the yard more than he does in the house. (We live in the middle of nowhere...bears, bobcats, foxes, turkeys..they all pee in our yard too) I don't get it, it's the same distance from the living room to the bathroom as it is to the back yard but whatever he's an adult and he isn't hurting anyone. He doesn't pee in "public" though, just the yard.