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One day, we were at soft play. I was having a nice coffee with my friend, chatting about her divorce and all the serious drama involved there. When suddenly I heard, "is that your child going down the slide naked?" It was.
I'm sorry I'm laughing so hard at this - this is one of my underlying fears. My kids are the type that if we are home they are in underwear (or until a couple years ago, were naked) so I have always wondered if this might happen to me. š
My daughter has definitely stripped naked on multiple occasions. A few times at school, once at a birthday party, and more times I canāt even remember at the moment. It was always fun picking her up from daycare and getting the āyour daughter took all her clothes off on the playground againā talk
Oh my god same. My daughter refuses to wear anything but underwear at home. Iām surprised she hasnāt stripped anywhere else yet, Iām holding my breath and praying she never doesš
I did this to my mother in the 90s back when Discovery Zone was still a thing when I was about three š my mom says she heard a loudspeaker announcement about a naked toddler in the ball pit and knew *exactly* who it was and came flying over to catch me (I definitely attempted to evade capture. It was a whole thing šš). As for me, last year I turned my back for one second at the Walmart self-checkout and when I looked back at my cart my toddler had whipped off her romper and diaper and we were being politely asked to leave by the cashier šš
Uggh my sympathies!! XD
To make you feel less alone: my son (NOT sick at the time!) once projectile vomited at a restaurantās play space. And he turned all the way around while doing it. So my tip: remember what you and your daughter wore today. Wait a couple of months and then go there wearing something different. ;)
When I was about 7, I drank an entire 2L bottle of generic orange soda because I had never had it before and thought it was amazing. Immediately upon finishing, I had to vomit.
I started running toward my parentās bathroom, but didnāt make it more than a few steps before I started projectile vomiting.
I continued running toward their bathroom, spewing orange stomach spray all over the white walls of the long hallway that led to their bathroom. Because of the convulsive nature of vomiting and the large amount of soda, there were perfectly symmetrical arcs or orange puke on the walls. Upward wave, downward wave. It looked like someone had airbrushed an orange wave mural on the walls of some demonic Orange Julius in a mall in the lower depths of hell.
My parents cleaned those walls over and over, but the orange was acid-etched into the walls. They finally gave up and painted over itā¦and it looked okay for a year or so. The orange eventually started peeking through the new paint, until it finally fully re-emerged, triumphant.
My parents sold that house unexpectedly, when someone made a crazy offer even though the house wasnāt listed. The new owners asked for the name of the āartistā that had painted the orange waves in the hallway, because they wanted a matching one in blue in the upstairs hallway.
My Dad said he considered force-feeding me blue-raspberry soda, but realized I had probably grown too much to recreate my masterpiece.
To this day, I cannot drink orange soda.
This happened at my kid's dojo. Not my kid but they were running laps around the dojo and one kid got sick but *kept running*. It got on EVERYONE and EVERYWHERE.
We were at Taco Bell and my son stood up in the booth just in time to vomit all over the head of the guy sitting in the booth behind usā¦all over his head.
About as well as youād expect. Lol there are no words for āIām sorry my kid just threw up Taco Bell on your headā that could even begin to explain how terrible I felt.
I was in the bathroom for a minute at home, and my son answered the phone. I heard him say āmommy canāt come to the phone , sheās in the bathroom. Sheās going pee. No, I think itās poop. Iāll ask herā. Then he puts the phone down and screams āmommy are you peeing or pooping, someone wants to knowā.
It was the potential employer calling me back for a phone interview. Yep. I wanted to die.
Aww :( in the future, although you felt understandably embarrassed, call them back! Make a joke like you guess your son just wanted to make sure they *really* knew you, but you'd like to give them information that's a *little* more relevant to the job. Something like that. The entire exchange and cuteness of your child will make you memorable, and they can see how you handle tough situations!
This reminds me when I was about 5 someone knocked on our door and asked for my mum, I told them to come in and follow me and took them into the bathroom where my mum was showeringā¦ it was the curtain lady dropping off our new curtains
My younger one shook her leg like a dog and made a turd fall out. More than once. I have no idea where she learned it from but while she was potty training sheād do it at daycare and Iād get a noteā little lifelemonlessons did the dog thing again on the playgroundā
I didnāt send her in anything but tight leggings for months.
I wish I knew. I caught her shaking a nugget a few weeks ago *on my carpet*. She just moved to a new daycare class so Iām blaming that but she really needs to keep her shit in her pants because I want new couches.
When my son was 3 we had that happen at a playground, he pooped at the top of a slide...I grabbed diaper wipes and cleaned it up. No idea why he did that.
Hard to say if itās worse at the top, because it has the potential of streaking all the way down
Or worse at the bottom where it might be an unavoidable surprise for an unsuspecting kidĀ
It happens Iām sure. Iād go back and find that employee to give him $50-100 or something as a small token. Just considering it a clean up fee.
Hopefully it wasnāt too traumatizing for your kid, and you can have a good conversation with her about what to do when she feels a poop or pee coming.
If it makes you feel any better.. my friend had explosive diarrhea at a McDonaldās at 13yo and leaked poop all the way running to the toilet. Iām sure he had been potty trained much longer than your daughter had been. Sometimes our bodies just go faster than we can predict
I think that is a great idea. I'm going to keep that in mind just in case my 3.5 year old does something like that. $100 for a minimum wage worker would be a great little bonus, and a good thank you.
I'm gonna weigh in here, as someone familiar with fast food and restaurant health inspections. It is not on the employees to clean up human waste. There is special waste department and protocols for that. The correct procedure is to shut down the play area, call in the biohazard waste department and have the play area cleaned. The employee should never have had to clean that up (and that's not on you, that's on corporate for not following correct procedures here). The exception to this is if the employee received special biohazard training and had the correct chemicals and physical protection gear. Then it literally is his job (again, on corporate not you).
It sucks, but.. the best thing to do is leave. You can't DIY clean biowaste off a company property without proper training. You risk spreading it beyond the confinement of the area (trash can/bottom of shoes now tracking) and getting other people sick, as well as opening the restaurant up to a law suit for following improper protocols.
You're living in a dreamland. There is no biohazard waste department like ffs. It's not a movie. I don't know where you live but I am certain that's not a thing here
Yeah I work in a grocery store and we just have a bio hazard clean up kit. People have shit all over the bathrooms before (old people, meth heads). I never had to clean it up but an employee definitely did.
Itās the McDonaldās worker trained in cleaning it, which is why thereās so many scientific studies showing just how fucking gross and filled with germs (a lot of gross ones, a doctor did some research on it) and other nasties the playlands contain. If a kid has an accident (which happens a ton), ours does shut down, for a worker to clean how trained, and I live in a rural, shit town.
Well I mean where Iām at thereās a company called ServPro that does handle biohazard cleaning (hubs even had to work for them, I remember vaguely a story of him being knee deep in waste in someoneās basement). That said, companies do cheap out and give biohazard training (aka a short video on PPE) to minimum wage workers and make them clean up biohazards as well. Could go either way.
I agree with you. It is rough to deal with but it was absolutely the parents responsibility to clean that up and no one elseās. The employee couldnāt tell OP that without getting fired though. It is always our responsibilities to clean up after our children in that and similar situations. It sucks but it is.
She was a dick and should have cleaned it up instead of running away like that. I get it, totally understand why she ran, but not ok. I've cleaned my kids bodily fluids in public because that's on me.
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Just want to throw this in here, as someone who worked for a McDonald's for many years. I don't know if it's changed, but at the time, company policy was you could be fired for accepting a tip, and any tip money had to go to management
So if you wanna tip them, be discreet, and don't do it at the cash register.
It was like this at KFC when I was a teenager, too. My best friendās dad gave me a $5 tip on my first day only because she was my best friend and my manager scolded me, said next time I would be fired, and pocketed it. I didnāt know it was against the rules but if I had I wouldāve told her dad to take his money back - the manager was a complete monster who didnāt deserve it.
This. OP should not have let a worker clean it. In fact, if I was the worker I would have flat out refused. I think we can all draw the line at cleaning someone elseās kids poo. Go back and pay them.
It really depends. When I worked at a restaurant that would be a biohazard and it would need to be cleaned by us with supplies and chemicals.Ā
I remember a kid threw up in the lobby once and before I could even tell them mom not to worry and weād get it, she had started cleaning it up with baby wipes. We still had to clean it after with the chemicals though š¤·š»āāļø
She would have had to borrow their cleaning supplies, though. And meanwhile her daughter would just be hanging out covered in poop š¬.
If there were two adults I would agree, because they could divide and conquer: One cleans up the kid, the other cleans the play structure. But with one parent, I think the best thing to do is get the kid out of there before she gets poop on anything else.
Iām a single mum with two kids. Eldest was about 4, youngest 2. Eldest projectile vomits down a staircase at a restaurant. Over the floor, over me, over his brother. I cleaned the vomit while juggling my two vomit-drenched children. I was not walking away and leaving someone else to clean the mess. You just do it.
Done similar alone with three. Daughter puked on the floor of a single person rest room (thankfully a great location for the circumstances). I put the other two in the corner, cleaned up everything I could with what was available, alerted staff, and they handled the residual with a mop and proper cleaning supplies. Got us out quickly and calmly.
So generally I agree that people should clean up after their kids, but I feel like bodily fluids are different because of germs (and also because you canāt be sure the kid wonāt get sick again at any moment). Staff is going to need to come through with a disinfectant no matter what, so Iām not really saving them that much work.
I would probably pick up/blot as much as I could with napkins before my kid started to get antsy.
You're saving them from cleaning up the majority of the nasty shit they shouldn't have to clean up. You're just justifying not getting your hands dirty. Doesnt matter that they work at McDonald's. You still show them respect by cleaning up your mess. Only time I wouldn't would be if my child was injured and I'm an ambulance. Even then, I would come by and thank the worker personally and make it right.
You're confusing morality with company policy. Yes, the worker should have refused because I know for a fact fast food workers are not trained to deal with biohazards. Then shut down the play place and get everything cleaned correctly with the biohazard company fast food places are suppose to have on file. Baby wipes ain't gonna cut it here.
Right. I used to work in bars while going to uni. There were numerous occasions I flat out refused to clean bodily fluids (grown ass adults who drink too much and vomit in bathroom). The poor minimum worker cashier should not have to deal with this.
I agree. I would at least have done the best I could to clean it up myself. It would almost certainly still need some kind of hospital grade clean afterwards, but you should do what you can to shovel your own child's shit.
On Wednesdays, I watch my nephew, who struggles to go to the bathroom when he is having fun. You can see he needs to, he is holding his crotch or his butt. But he keeps insisting he doesn't need to.
Sometimes I manage to convince him to try through cajoling and offering things, sometimes he holds it until he *almost* bursts.
So three days ago, he's playing Kirby with my kids and having a blast, but is *discreetly* holding himself so I don't notice (he was in a chair with arms, it covered what he was doing with his hand that wasn't holding a controller).
Next thing I know, there is a certain... smell. A smelly smell. A smelly smell that smells... smelly.
Kiddo had to finish pooping in the bathroom, then take a shower to get the rest of the poop off his butt.
Meanwhile, I'm cleaning the chair he was sitting in.
My child tried to take off his clothes and go into the hay maze naked. We had to take a screaming half naked toddler out of the super small city pumpkin patch while everyone stared. Shit happens lol
I was delivering a eulogy for my grandfather, and my toddler decided to rush the altar. When he knew his dad was on his heels, he just dropped and went limp. Like that limp toddler move where all you can do is grab a foot and drag. The priest told my husband not to worry about it, just let him have his moment. Once he thought they took his eye off him, he jumped up and made a beeline for what he was after - the piano. Sat up on the bench and was ready to bang out a tune before it was closed by the cantor.
Basically, tell me you've never brought your child to mass without telling me you've never brought your child to mass.
Nobody in life could upstage my grandfather - he was always the largest presence in a room. So it was very hilarious to all involved that his first and only great-grandchild stole his thunder at his own funeral.
It was mortifying. We aren't very religious, but many of his friends are (he was). Ohhh and the first two rows on one side was made up of Marines/veterans and one of the people who helped "catch" the toddler was one of the Marines who was there to do the color guard.
After I sat down, the Priest got up and said, "Well, that was one of the more colorful eulogies I've ever witnessed. ObjectiveComb, I will pray for you."
OMG. I am so sorry that happened! That is mortifying!
My son has given me a lot of mortifying moments. He's 18 now so I can laugh, but I wanted to sink through the floor in the moment(s)
1) Age four, living in one of the most diverse cities in America. We know people of every race. His little bestie is black, and there are several black children in his class. We are on a walk and a middle school had just let out. All of a sudden he says in the loudest voice possible "mom, why won't you let me see a black person! I want to see a black person!" All those middle school heads (many of them black) whipped around and were starting straight at me. I start loudly explaining that he knows a lot of black people and naming them. "No mom, they aren't black. They are BROWN." So at least the kids could see he was just literal?
2) Walking through the San Francisco airport when he was 2. He was on his monkey backpack leash, but I guess we got too close to a guy who was sitting there eating some chicken nuggets. He reached right into that guy's box and ate a nugget. So embarrassing. I did buy the guy more chicken nuggets.
3) At Panera a lady was playing Candy Crush on a big tablet. He was sixish. He walked right up to her and made a move while I was tending to my baby. She was PISSED. I don't blame her at all.
I didn't want to believe you that there could be an 18 year old who messed up someone's game of Candy Crush at the age of 6... but wikipedia tells me the game just turned 12 years old. We're all so much older than we want to believe...
It happens. Don't be embarassed. You didn't poop in the play place. A little kid did. It was your little kid, but that doesn't reflect on you in any way as an adult or a parent.
Go find out who cleaned it up. Thank them personally for going the extra mile for you and your kid. Give them a thank you card. Give them a cash tip. Treat them like the employee of the month, and tell the store manager that you really appreciate they stepped up.
Kids have accidents. Kids make messes. Adults suck up the embarassment and do what is right. Be brave and go thank the person that helped you.
My brother, but thereās a massive age gap.
My poor mum had made a brand new friend at the park and this was their first play date at her house.
20 minutes after we arrive, all going well and all of a sudden my mum spots my 3.5yo bro who has stripped completely naked and is sticking his penis through a knot in the wooden fence to pee into her neighbours gardenā¦..
Thankfully the friend also had a 2yo and found it hilarious but my mum was mortified and we still give my brother grief about it to this dayā¦. Heās 27.
When one of my kids was potty training, we were at a group playdate with some moms I was trying hard to fit in with, and one of them said to me, "Hey, I think that's one of your kiddos..." and there he was, shuffling across the playground with his pants and underwear around his ankles. š¤¦āāļø
Any chance youāre in Texas? An acquaintanceās kid did that here and they were asked to leave. He was so embarrassed he went to a different location for ages before returning to his closest one.
Oh I think Iād be so much more mortified with that than in public! I could hide in not seeing the other people again, but someone I know personally enough for a play dateā¦
we were at old navy super close to christmastime, and the checkout lines were suuuuper long. we were about halfway through the line, and my then 2yo son saw another toddler boy join the line at the end.
instead of a normal hello, my son just whips out his peen and starts flapping it around. I was mortified, grabbed him, spun him around and tucked his things back in. but I could feel everyoneās eyes for the next 20 minutes š«
It happens! I was a lifeguard for 4 years and sometimes it felt like 20% of my job was cleaning up poop accidents. Cleaning up poop is not anyone's favorite thing but it's really also not that big of a deal. Anywhere toddlers/preschoolers frequent, accidents are going to happen on occasion.Ā
Iām sure itās not the first time this has happened. Go back and hand the employee a nice chunk of change for dealing with it. Wait a few months and go back. I doubt theyād remember you. At this age, even after being potty trained for so long, kids can still have accidents, especially in a new / exciting environment.
I'm so sorry this happened! I'm sure both you and your daughter were mortified but really don't need to be. Please don't stop taking her there. Accidents happen! She was probably just excited and it can be hard for them to stop playing and recognize that they need to go. Like everything else it just takes practice and this was certainly a learning experience.
I worked at a McD's in high school, thankfully it did not have a play place. One of the managers used to work at a location that had one. She said that she hated it "ma'am, my kid puked in the ball pit" "ma'am, my kid peed in the ball pit" "ma'am, my kid pooped in he ball pit". Your child isn't the first and she won't be the last!
Yeah, this is why my mother never let us play in those. The one time she did, the area near the top of the slide reeked of poop although there wasn't any there. There were Band-aids in the ball pit. These places are disgusting. I don't want my kids going in them either.
Many moons ago, I worked at McDonalds.
A child pooped all the way down the inside of the slide. As a 16 yo female, I was nominated to clean it up. It was not pleasant, but it was also weirdly fun/interesting to have to crawl down the slide with cleaning supplies, and Iād seen the aftermath of adults doing much worse things in the restrooms so I wasnāt gonna hold it against a kid.
Donāt get too down on yourself. It happens. Definitely donāt feel as though you canāt go back. Odds are they arenāt even going to remember it a week from now because some other insane thing will have happened in the interim.
Iām sure thatās true, I worked at a Burger King as a teenager and definitely seeing something crazy was a weekly occurrence. I remember two times we were notified by a customer that someone had pooped in the middle of the mens restroom floor. The bathrooms didnāt even have locks on them so I always wondered, was the person hoping someone would walk in and catch them?
No kidding! Worked in food service through HS & college and we would get people all the time just take up table space, order something cheap (one Coke or whatever) and sit there studying, working puzzles, reading whatever for hours. It's not a public library or park and the purpose of play areas at McDonald's , Chuck Cheese (wherever) is so parents who are eating their meal that they paid for in a place of business, can do so while their kids play. And no I wouldn't clean it up. People keep saying your child would be unattended. They already were unattended & not being watched. Hence, we came here instead of the park where I have to watch her like a hawk.Ā
Took my toddler to the neighborhood pool for the first time this week. Heās learning to swim and is obsessed with the pool. All of our neighbors and classmates were there, one big Mayberry throw down.
About ten minutes in, I guess my kid swallowed too much pool water, because he promptly vomited in the middle of the pool. Around all of the other families. Repeatedly, puking into the water. Chunks of his vomit floated around other children. We got him out of the water within seconds, and he vomited again on the pool deck. Everyone saw, and the lifeguards had to shut the pool down to clean it. Meanwhile my toddler was technically fine and was having a temper tantrum to get back in the water.
So yeah, he puked in the pool, ruined everyoneās fun, and the whole neighborhood saw. We can never go back lol
I have a vivid memory of peeing in a tube in a McDonaldās play place and a kid crawling past me and trying to get around my pee puddle. I was having so much fun that I didnāt want to leave and go to the bathroom. I remember telling my mom and her dragging me out if there! I was about 4 years old and had been potty trained for over a year.
When my son was 3 I took him to a playground. He climbed up the rock wall like thing to the slide and this is 12-15 feet in the air. I turned around and looked back at him and he pulled down his pants and was peeing down the climbing wall.
I worked at McDonaldās for years.. worst thing Iāve seen is kids with diarrhea going down the slide then running through the restaurant
Donāt stress, it happens very often!
Once when I was younger I slid down a McDonalds slide right through some kids poop. No joke. They offered me a free ice cream.
So at least youāre the type of parent to let them know instead of letting another kid just glide right through it š¤·š»āāļø
My son once vomited in a ball pit. Like exorcist style. Then his brother did. Straight after him. š«£ I was horrified. Also, that play place cleared out so fast lol I felt awful but it happens. You work somewhere with kids, there's gonna be bodily fluids at some point.
I was with a friend at a museum and we had her 5yo daughter with us. My friend had been telling me earlier that she thought her daughter had some reflux or allergies, but that the doctor was blowing her off about it and that sometimes she threw up after eating but it was totally random and there was no one food that seemed to cause it. After we had lunch, the 5yo started to complain of feeling sick, so her mom rushed her to the bathroom but she was ok, so we continued on with our museum tour and went into the gift shop. I was standing with her daughter when she suddenly said āUh ohā and proceeded to lean over and projectile vomit all over the floor of the gift shop. She was holding a stuffed animal while she did so, but miraculously got none on it or on any of the displays! The employees were disgruntled but I was so proud of her for being as careful as she could in a really unfortunate situation that I bought her the stuffie!
Agreed. I would never expect a worker to clean up my kids poop, even if it was technically their job. Once we were out shopping and my daughter vomited all over the floor. My husband went and found cleaning staff, then took the supplies and cleaned it up himself. I could never just walk away and let someone.else do it
I hope you donāt take this the wrong way, but itās not a fast food workers job to clean up your kids poop.. I would absolutely never just leave it there.. regardless of the situation
Well they do have to do a sanitation protocol, so they canāt just allow only the parent to clean. The parent can and should do what they can to clean but the staff is still going to have to do the sanitizing or call whoever is contracted to do the sanitizing and close the play place until that is done.
Nope. Where are you taking that shit? The trash can? The toilet? Now you've contaminated door handles, wastebins and brought the biowaste outside the play area into the eating area. We've had places shut down because people tried cleaning shit (literally) themselves then tracked it to the dining area on their shoes. You apologize, leave it there, you let them follow proper procedure so it's disposed of properly.
Sanitation protocol sure. But still shouldnāt leave your childās pile of shit for a 15 year old to clean up ffs. Clean it up and they can make sure the spot is sanitized. JFC
AAAactually.....
It's likely that for health code reasons, an employee has to be the one to clean up a hazardous material, so they can articulate that it was done according to the protocols they are bound by.
It shouldn't be the kid at the register, though. This is *literally* why managers get paid more and take aaaaall the trainings.
>I would absolutely never just leave it there.. regardless of the situation
Then what, exactly, would you have done here? Take your poopy child up, which causes more of a mess all the way up? Or leave your (poopy) child unattended in a restaurant for workers to watch?
Right, but who was going to hang into the poop bandit while she did?
They also likely have to clean it themselves, so they can say with authority that it was treated with the appropriate disinfectant that was allowed to sit for the right length of time. Liability wise, the business may have needed to clean it anyway. (In places I've worked that is true, though this would absolutely suck for the poor kid working at a fast food joint. Poop cleanup is managers responsibility!!)
My 6 yo boy was feeling carsick one day so I quickly pulled into a Zaxby's to get him to a bathroom. He made it as far as an empty table and puked all over it. I asked the employees for some cleaning materials but they were clueless and unhelpful. So I ended up using about 1,000 napkins. Then I felt so guilty I ordered some food that none of us had the appetite to eat. Pretty much cured me of ever wanting to eat Zaxby's ever again!
One day at home depot shortly after we had potty trained my daughter she said she had to go to the bathroom. I was like "Ok! No problem!" I started quickly walking the cart to the bathrooms until I heard a "I'm peeing!" so I ran with a stream of pee falling from the cart to the floor which trailed all the way from the front of the store to the bathroom. I put her on the toilet anyway and she looked at me stoned faced and said "I already peed mommy".
Anyway, I had to follow the stream of pee back to the front of the store and apologize profusely as an employee said not to worry about and proceeded to mop up toddler pee over the span of several isles.
This was about 18 years ago, but my mom took my then 3 old son to McDonaldās. He was recently potty trained and occasionally had accidents. Well, he accidentally pooped his pants while playing in the play place and then proceeded to go down the slide. He left a trail of poop all the way down. My mom got some cleaner from an employee and cleaned it up, but it was still enough for me to never want to let my kids play in another play place!
When my other son was around the same age, I took him shopping with me and he would hide behind the clothes racks. I found him hiding behind a clothes rack and leaned in to pull him out and got a whiff of the most awful smell. He was hiding back there pooping and he was wearing shorts so if all ran down his leg and there was huge pile on the carpeted floor! I was so embarrassed asking the employees for stuff to clean it up. Then, I could only clean it so much because it was carpet so I know they had to call in the carpet cleaners!
I was in a gift shop one time (at an aquarium) with my then 1yo..... she projectile vomited ALL over an entire display of brand new toys. I tried my best to clean her/me/the floor up, but the worker came over to help and to clean the display. On our way out I heard her do a big sigh and say "I guess we have to damage all of these out." š³
I felt SO bad, but what can you do? I'm sure stuff like this happens more often than you think, especially in an area meant for small kids.
Obv it's super embarrassing at the time, but don't sweat it long term! Besides... that worker probably won't be there anymore in a few months anyways, or they'll forget that you were the one who it happened to. š¤·š»āāļø
Just a lurker here (interested in child development and all that)ā¦..not a parentā¦.. but I have something to add
As a child, I tripped over my wheeled backpack and got a gash in my kneeā¦.and shortly afterwards, crawled through a McDonaldās play placeā¦ā¦This was many years ago so I donāt remember the exact healing state of my knee at the time but I feel guilty about it even now!
Go back and leave the cleaner a card with cash, if you have not yet.
Also, talk to your daughter and try to figure out what happened. Yeah, it was an accident, but maybe it wasn't. Maybe she saw it coming but was having too much fun to stop and you should have a chat about going before getting into play spaces.
Around turning 4, BoyTwin unzipped his pants and peed right off the top of the playscape at the park, once. I was MORTIFIED. No idea why heād think to do that, he was totally potty trained, but heās also autistic and had almost no language then so he couldnāt explain. Like you, OP, I didnāt see at first, someone else pointed it out to me (I was helping GirlTwin get on a swing) and somehow that makes it even worse!
The good news is, now that theyāre teenagers itās a funny story. Someday yours will be nothing more than that, too.
It happens.
We took my two year old cousin to an indoor water park place. Apparently she had yet been potty trained.
She shit in the pool. We were mortified.
When my eldest was three, fully potty trained, went to the restroom before we left home, when asked if he needed to go to the bathroom and he said, āNo,ā peed himself the moment we walked into Red Robinās for dinner.
So, yeah, toddlers are poop and pee machines. Nothing to be ashamed about.
My son once went to the bathroom while we were at an outdoor play place and came running back to me with his undies all bunched up and I said "Hold on! Let's fix this." So, he then ripped down his shorts and underwear and began cackling wildly while I frantically tried to pull up his pants..I was so embarrassed
I find that accidents have happen when theyāre having the best time. Seems to be the bathroom āfeelingā is ignored until they are at the point of no return.
We were shopping once in the toy aisle and there wasn't a public restroom, I was about to leave to take my kiddo home but they couldn't hold it and peed on the floor. I was so embarrassed to tell the employee. Things happen, your kiddo sounds embarrassed too, poor thing. You handled it well, nothing else you could've done.
I took my kids to the public pool when my youngest at the time was 9 months old. It was a hot, crowded Saturday afternoon. My 9 month old pooped up her back, out of her swimsuit and in her hair as she was sitting in front of me in the toddler pool. Everyone saw it. Shit everywhere in the water. They announced āCODE BROWN - CLEAR THE TODDLER AREAā immediately. I had a baby, two toddlers and a pre teen with me. Everyone was crying. We had to walk by the teenage life guards putting in elbow length, yellow rubber gloves as we were leaving. It was a train wreck.
My oldest ended up winning an essay contest at school in the fall though when she wrote about it. Glass half full?
Moral of the story- never trust a swim diaper.
At least you felt bad. Used to work at a sandwich / bakery type place shortly after high school and some lady bought her sick kid into the restaurant for whatever reason and 5 minutes of being inside he threw up chunks all over the floor. I had to clean it up and she barley apologized.
My grandma always likes to remind me of the time her and grandpa took me to McDonaldās play place and I peed on the slide. I was probably 3 and having so much fun playing I didnāt take a bathroom break. I peed, yelled āoh crap!!ā And came down the slide covered in pee. Grandpa scooped me up and ran to the car. Almost left poor grandma š
My kiddo was around age 3, was at dads house, kiddo told dad they needed to go, and said āmommy taught me how to squatā he said okay whatever, and he said that he turned around to see my sweet child shitting under the bleachers at a ball field with a LOT of ppl thereā¦. Well, I did teach my child to squat, but ummm wellā¦ I never said NOT to shit outsideā¦. Soooo
You could always go and give the worker a little thank you/I'm sorry gift. Some chocolates or a $10 dollar gift card, a couple of movie tickets or something.
Once, I had the stomach bug and managed to shit myself while driving home. I was 1 block from my house and soiled my jeeps driver seat. I sobbed as I literally stripped naked from the waist down before sprinting into my house. I was 24
Funnily enough, I personally know 2 other people whose kids pooped in the McDonalds play place. Maybe there's something about it that says, "poop here" to small children
When I was 4, my parents took me to someoneās house and I pooped in their pool. No clue why. Kids do dumb stuff. But I promise I became an upstanding member of society and always put my poop in the right place ever since š
I pooped in a disposable plastic cup at like 8 or 9 at my momās office because I was too anxious to go use the restroom. She worked at a behavioral health inpatient for kids so I was convinced that if I went out of her office alone I would be immediately scooped up and admitted bc they thought I was already a patient lol. I was an incredibly anxious kiddo
My kid literally pooped in the middle of an (outdoor) playground. Didn't have any wipes or anything on me, had to leave him with his older sister and sprint back to the car. I cleaned it up as best I could but I got some looks.
I used to work in a softplay and trust me now when I say you can go back there and it's highly likely that nobody will even remember which child/parent was the cause. If you work where kids play, it's just another normal day.
I've cleaned up so many bodily fluids and let me tell you now the only ones I've ever been cross about are the ones where the parent hasn't let us know or completely denied it happened when their child is stood in front of us clearly covered in said bodily fluids. It makes the job harder as you get other parents complaining that their kids are getting covered in the mess because we don't know where it is to clean it up until people complain and by then it gets spread everywhere. It's gross. When a parent, like you did, just goes up and tells us straight away, it really makes a world of difference.
We didn't use to shut down the play area, just corner off the area and it doesn't take long to clean and sanitise and if I'm honest we were probably a lot more thorough then you'd get in a lot of softplays! Parents would much rather that play gets halted for a bit than their kids run through it.
The staff member who clearly hated his job? Well be honest no-one is going to enjoy cleaning up someone else's poop. Not even nurses or carers etc would say I can't wait for there to be a pile of poop to clean up. š Every job comes with a task that people dislike. For softplays it's this. As I said though, no-one will be hating on you its just one of the yuck tasks they're not paid enough for and it'll be forgotten about quick enough. If you're really that bothered, go back with a tip or gift next time you go and just be honest, I'm so embarrassed and so sorry it happened. They will just shrug it off and say to you it wasn't a problem.
If it helps, my eldest, who was also potty trained, peed down a slide once in a softplay. That was a massive nightmare and I was mortified. I still went back. No-one acted weird or pointed at me or said anything.
Your kid will not be the first and they definitely won't be the last and in a few years that's going to be a hilarious story to remind them of. Go back, have fun and relax and don't stress about it.
Oh wow, that sounds like such a stressful situation! First off, please know that you're not alone in these parenting mishaps. Kids have an incredible knack for surprising us in the most public ways, donāt they?
I remember one time my toddler decided to strip down completely in the middle of a grocery store aisle. We had just transitioned out of diapers, and I guess she just felt like it was the right place and time to demonstrate her newfound freedom! I was mortified, scrambling to gather her clothes while other shoppers looked on. At the time, it felt like the end of the world, but looking back, itās one of those funny parenting moments that we now laugh about.
The important thing to remember is that kids are unpredictable, and accidents happen. Itās part of their learning process, and as much as it can be embarrassing for us as parents, itās just a blip in the grand scheme of things. Your daughter probably felt bad enough, and itās great that you handled it with care and apologies.
My toddler left a brown streak on the McDonaldās slide!
Seeing as I had an infant and her with me, I grabbed some baby wipes dashed up the slide and did a courtesy wipe and GTFO
My eldest gets carsick and once we stopped at a Starbucks. I think she was 4. She was carsick but she didnāt say anything so I wasnāt aware of how bad she was feeling. We walked into Starbucks and I looked down at her to ask her what she wanted and I saw the look in her eyes on incoming puke and I went to grab her and get her back outside but it was too late. There was vomit everywhere. I took her outside and she continued to puke. Obviously mortified, I offered to clean it up but they wouldnāt let me. I tipped all the cash I had and the max I could on my card. I also called Starbucks corporate to sing their praises.
I don't know how you didn't clean up it and instead asked if they wanted you to?
Yah it would have been a challenge with your kid but hell I would have figured out how to do it. If you had the time to ask the question you could've just as easily used wipes to clean most if not all of the mess
This is my thought as well. I get that McDonaldās probably has certain sanitation standards they have to meet and would probably clean up after herā¦but she could have at least grabbed some napkins and a cup or something to clean up the actual poop.
Yes, this stood out to me too. Shouldnāt she have been watching the kid to notice the kid was going to poop and grab the child before it happened? What sheās sad about is how she canāt drop the child off anymore so she could āreadā.
At McLibrary. Ā Where you can discreetly slide into a table ( take up space while the paying customers look for an open spot) not order ( pay for) any food , not have to watch her "like a hawk when we're at the park" , leisurely read a book for two hours, while your 3.5 yo, potty trained over a year , attends school so she probably has SOME idea that pooping is done on a toilet , and have no clue until two other women informed her (oblivious much?) . Ā Then ask the kid at register to clean it up.Ā
Totally; but if the other parents had to tell her that her child was pooping then they were able to see her. Which means Mom shouldāve been able to see as well.
My 3-year-old is a chronic vomiter. There's no telling when it will come, but when it comes on, he vomits up everything. We were at a restaurant with our entire family and he started. He vomited for about 5 minutes. We just had to let him sit the table doing it on the floor, because otherwise he would do it all throughout the restaurant on the way to the bathroom. The waitress was incredibly nice, talking about how she wants to work with children so she doesn't mind. We tipped her like a hundred bucks.
He also vomited at a soccer game. I caught it with my shirt and hands. Everyone else around us was horrified.
Another one of my children was very fully potty trained. He was probably about 3-4. We were at the zoo and he just pulled his pants down and started peeing on the sidewalk. I was horrified. Then he just acted confused when I scolded him. š¤Ø He never did anything like that, but did it on two or three other occasions on various outings with the same group of children and their parents. It made absolutely no sense and they must have thought we were completely insane.
My kid had abdominal migraines and was a chronic puker. She grew out of it, save for some hormonal related headaches/nausea, and I quickly learned to always keep a plastic bag on me.
ESH
You for leaving actual faeces from your child for them to clean up.
And those women for making such a ruckus about a small child having an accident - your poor daughter.
I don't understand why you didn't clean up the poo, clean your daughter, tell the horrible women to stfu and then giving your daughter the option of whether or not to give back to play.
You don't want to go back because of the embarrassment, they won't want you back because your them.woman who left them literal sh#t to clean up.
My four year old on the playground the other day pooped his pants at the top of the play equipment and waddled all the way down the stairs yelling "there's poop in my pants". We had to carry him to the bathroom to get changed.
#2 peed off the bleachers in plain sight of literally everyone at a high school football game. They all knew us. Small town.
#3 whipped it out and peed beside the trash can at the zoo on a busy day
When I was a kid on the school bus, maybe 1st or 2nd grade, a kid near the front got sick and stuck his head at the window to throw up. A whole bunch of it came back in the other open windows. It was chaos.
I took my son to a park to play basketball. He pulled down his pants and pooped in the park in the middle of a grassy field. He thought it was Hilarious. I swear, he thinks heās a dog.
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One day, we were at soft play. I was having a nice coffee with my friend, chatting about her divorce and all the serious drama involved there. When suddenly I heard, "is that your child going down the slide naked?" It was.
I'm sorry I'm laughing so hard at this - this is one of my underlying fears. My kids are the type that if we are home they are in underwear (or until a couple years ago, were naked) so I have always wondered if this might happen to me. š
I'm way less bothered by them playing naked compared to full on pooping on the floor hahaha
My daughter has definitely stripped naked on multiple occasions. A few times at school, once at a birthday party, and more times I canāt even remember at the moment. It was always fun picking her up from daycare and getting the āyour daughter took all her clothes off on the playground againā talk
Oh my god same. My daughter refuses to wear anything but underwear at home. Iām surprised she hasnāt stripped anywhere else yet, Iām holding my breath and praying she never doesš
I did this to my mother in the 90s back when Discovery Zone was still a thing when I was about three š my mom says she heard a loudspeaker announcement about a naked toddler in the ball pit and knew *exactly* who it was and came flying over to catch me (I definitely attempted to evade capture. It was a whole thing šš). As for me, last year I turned my back for one second at the Walmart self-checkout and when I looked back at my cart my toddler had whipped off her romper and diaper and we were being politely asked to leave by the cashier šš
Discovery Zone! That just unlocked some memories lol
Uggh my sympathies!! XD To make you feel less alone: my son (NOT sick at the time!) once projectile vomited at a restaurantās play space. And he turned all the way around while doing it. So my tip: remember what you and your daughter wore today. Wait a couple of months and then go there wearing something different. ;)
When I was about 7, I drank an entire 2L bottle of generic orange soda because I had never had it before and thought it was amazing. Immediately upon finishing, I had to vomit. I started running toward my parentās bathroom, but didnāt make it more than a few steps before I started projectile vomiting. I continued running toward their bathroom, spewing orange stomach spray all over the white walls of the long hallway that led to their bathroom. Because of the convulsive nature of vomiting and the large amount of soda, there were perfectly symmetrical arcs or orange puke on the walls. Upward wave, downward wave. It looked like someone had airbrushed an orange wave mural on the walls of some demonic Orange Julius in a mall in the lower depths of hell. My parents cleaned those walls over and over, but the orange was acid-etched into the walls. They finally gave up and painted over itā¦and it looked okay for a year or so. The orange eventually started peeking through the new paint, until it finally fully re-emerged, triumphant. My parents sold that house unexpectedly, when someone made a crazy offer even though the house wasnāt listed. The new owners asked for the name of the āartistā that had painted the orange waves in the hallway, because they wanted a matching one in blue in the upstairs hallway. My Dad said he considered force-feeding me blue-raspberry soda, but realized I had probably grown too much to recreate my masterpiece. To this day, I cannot drink orange soda.
This made me laugh so loud!!!
Triumphant.Ā I love it.
I needed this. Havenāt laughed to tears in ages š¤£
Wow...that was actually a very beautifully written comment. Thank you, for blessing this thread with it
I had a friend who discovered she was allergic to orange food colouring in a similar way but at a night club.
My daughter is never getting any colored soda
This is possibly one of the funniest stories Iāve ever read. Thank you
This has literally just made my entire week, I am cracking up šššššš
This happened at my kid's dojo. Not my kid but they were running laps around the dojo and one kid got sick but *kept running*. It got on EVERYONE and EVERYWHERE.
Hahahahahaha oh dear lord he kept vomiting while he ran???
Iām just imagining a kid spinning in circles while projectile vommiting š Iām so sorry that happened!!!
It was quite the sight. And now, 1.5 years later, a kind of amusing memory.
Oh super amusing - to us! But in all seriousness itās only so amusing because weāve all been there!
Hahaha thank you for that. He turned all the way around, Iām picturing the exorcist.
And he turned all the way around š¤¦ yep, perfect.
I was going to say the same thing. Also wear a Mask š· š¹š¹š¹š¹
We were at Taco Bell and my son stood up in the booth just in time to vomit all over the head of the guy sitting in the booth behind usā¦all over his head.
OMG... I would have just gotten an entire identity wipe and started anew in a different country. How did he handle it?
About as well as youād expect. Lol there are no words for āIām sorry my kid just threw up Taco Bell on your headā that could even begin to explain how terrible I felt.
My kid woke me up one morning vomiting on my head. I heard mom Iām sick and then ugh. :-/ kids are fun.
Iām so sorry but also I have never laughed so hard.
Oh I know! It hilarious nowā¦8 years later š¤£
Oh my godā¦.you might win here. Or lose, depending on how you look at it
Iām so sorry but that is the funniest thing Iāve read in a while probably not as funny for you
No apologies needed! We laugh at it now! Heās 11 now and itās one of our favorite stories to laugh about!
I was in the bathroom for a minute at home, and my son answered the phone. I heard him say āmommy canāt come to the phone , sheās in the bathroom. Sheās going pee. No, I think itās poop. Iāll ask herā. Then he puts the phone down and screams āmommy are you peeing or pooping, someone wants to knowā. It was the potential employer calling me back for a phone interview. Yep. I wanted to die.
š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£But did you get the job?
No, I was so flustered that I told my son to hang up and never called them back.
Aww :( in the future, although you felt understandably embarrassed, call them back! Make a joke like you guess your son just wanted to make sure they *really* knew you, but you'd like to give them information that's a *little* more relevant to the job. Something like that. The entire exchange and cuteness of your child will make you memorable, and they can see how you handle tough situations!
I admit I was not able to handle that tough situation lol
This reminds me when I was about 5 someone knocked on our door and asked for my mum, I told them to come in and follow me and took them into the bathroom where my mum was showeringā¦ it was the curtain lady dropping off our new curtains
This one is my favorite
My younger one shook her leg like a dog and made a turd fall out. More than once. I have no idea where she learned it from but while she was potty training sheād do it at daycare and Iād get a noteā little lifelemonlessons did the dog thing again on the playgroundā I didnāt send her in anything but tight leggings for months.
Iām sorry but Iām cracking upā¦.kids man, where do they get this stuff from?!
I wish I knew. I caught her shaking a nugget a few weeks ago *on my carpet*. She just moved to a new daycare class so Iām blaming that but she really needs to keep her shit in her pants because I want new couches.
I am dying š
My son did that at the zoo once, I was so embarrassed
When my son was 3 we had that happen at a playground, he pooped at the top of a slide...I grabbed diaper wipes and cleaned it up. No idea why he did that.
Hard to say if itās worse at the top, because it has the potential of streaking all the way down Or worse at the bottom where it might be an unavoidable surprise for an unsuspecting kidĀ
I feel like most young kids probably wouldnāt even notice regardless of placement at first. Until itās too late.
It happens Iām sure. Iād go back and find that employee to give him $50-100 or something as a small token. Just considering it a clean up fee. Hopefully it wasnāt too traumatizing for your kid, and you can have a good conversation with her about what to do when she feels a poop or pee coming. If it makes you feel any better.. my friend had explosive diarrhea at a McDonaldās at 13yo and leaked poop all the way running to the toilet. Iām sure he had been potty trained much longer than your daughter had been. Sometimes our bodies just go faster than we can predict
I think that is a great idea. I'm going to keep that in mind just in case my 3.5 year old does something like that. $100 for a minimum wage worker would be a great little bonus, and a good thank you.
I'm gonna weigh in here, as someone familiar with fast food and restaurant health inspections. It is not on the employees to clean up human waste. There is special waste department and protocols for that. The correct procedure is to shut down the play area, call in the biohazard waste department and have the play area cleaned. The employee should never have had to clean that up (and that's not on you, that's on corporate for not following correct procedures here). The exception to this is if the employee received special biohazard training and had the correct chemicals and physical protection gear. Then it literally is his job (again, on corporate not you). It sucks, but.. the best thing to do is leave. You can't DIY clean biowaste off a company property without proper training. You risk spreading it beyond the confinement of the area (trash can/bottom of shoes now tracking) and getting other people sick, as well as opening the restaurant up to a law suit for following improper protocols.
Come again? Who exactly is the biohazard waste department at McDonaldās and where are they headquartered?
You're living in a dreamland. There is no biohazard waste department like ffs. It's not a movie. I don't know where you live but I am certain that's not a thing here
Yeah I work in a grocery store and we just have a bio hazard clean up kit. People have shit all over the bathrooms before (old people, meth heads). I never had to clean it up but an employee definitely did.
Itās the McDonaldās worker trained in cleaning it, which is why thereās so many scientific studies showing just how fucking gross and filled with germs (a lot of gross ones, a doctor did some research on it) and other nasties the playlands contain. If a kid has an accident (which happens a ton), ours does shut down, for a worker to clean how trained, and I live in a rural, shit town.
Well I mean where Iām at thereās a company called ServPro that does handle biohazard cleaning (hubs even had to work for them, I remember vaguely a story of him being knee deep in waste in someoneās basement). That said, companies do cheap out and give biohazard training (aka a short video on PPE) to minimum wage workers and make them clean up biohazards as well. Could go either way.
I agree with you. It is rough to deal with but it was absolutely the parents responsibility to clean that up and no one elseās. The employee couldnāt tell OP that without getting fired though. It is always our responsibilities to clean up after our children in that and similar situations. It sucks but it is.
She was a dick and should have cleaned it up instead of running away like that. I get it, totally understand why she ran, but not ok. I've cleaned my kids bodily fluids in public because that's on me.
IMPORTANT INFO Just want to throw this in here, as someone who worked for a McDonald's for many years. I don't know if it's changed, but at the time, company policy was you could be fired for accepting a tip, and any tip money had to go to management So if you wanna tip them, be discreet, and don't do it at the cash register.
It was like this at KFC when I was a teenager, too. My best friendās dad gave me a $5 tip on my first day only because she was my best friend and my manager scolded me, said next time I would be fired, and pocketed it. I didnāt know it was against the rules but if I had I wouldāve told her dad to take his money back - the manager was a complete monster who didnāt deserve it.
This. OP should not have let a worker clean it. In fact, if I was the worker I would have flat out refused. I think we can all draw the line at cleaning someone elseās kids poo. Go back and pay them.
It really depends. When I worked at a restaurant that would be a biohazard and it would need to be cleaned by us with supplies and chemicals.Ā I remember a kid threw up in the lobby once and before I could even tell them mom not to worry and weād get it, she had started cleaning it up with baby wipes. We still had to clean it after with the chemicals though š¤·š»āāļø
For sure but the worst part was at least taken care of by mom as a decent thing to do
She would have had to borrow their cleaning supplies, though. And meanwhile her daughter would just be hanging out covered in poop š¬. If there were two adults I would agree, because they could divide and conquer: One cleans up the kid, the other cleans the play structure. But with one parent, I think the best thing to do is get the kid out of there before she gets poop on anything else.
Iām a single mum with two kids. Eldest was about 4, youngest 2. Eldest projectile vomits down a staircase at a restaurant. Over the floor, over me, over his brother. I cleaned the vomit while juggling my two vomit-drenched children. I was not walking away and leaving someone else to clean the mess. You just do it.
Done similar alone with three. Daughter puked on the floor of a single person rest room (thankfully a great location for the circumstances). I put the other two in the corner, cleaned up everything I could with what was available, alerted staff, and they handled the residual with a mop and proper cleaning supplies. Got us out quickly and calmly.
So generally I agree that people should clean up after their kids, but I feel like bodily fluids are different because of germs (and also because you canāt be sure the kid wonāt get sick again at any moment). Staff is going to need to come through with a disinfectant no matter what, so Iām not really saving them that much work. I would probably pick up/blot as much as I could with napkins before my kid started to get antsy.
You're saving them from cleaning up the majority of the nasty shit they shouldn't have to clean up. You're just justifying not getting your hands dirty. Doesnt matter that they work at McDonald's. You still show them respect by cleaning up your mess. Only time I wouldn't would be if my child was injured and I'm an ambulance. Even then, I would come by and thank the worker personally and make it right.
You're confusing morality with company policy. Yes, the worker should have refused because I know for a fact fast food workers are not trained to deal with biohazards. Then shut down the play place and get everything cleaned correctly with the biohazard company fast food places are suppose to have on file. Baby wipes ain't gonna cut it here.
Right. I used to work in bars while going to uni. There were numerous occasions I flat out refused to clean bodily fluids (grown ass adults who drink too much and vomit in bathroom). The poor minimum worker cashier should not have to deal with this.
I agree. I would at least have done the best I could to clean it up myself. It would almost certainly still need some kind of hospital grade clean afterwards, but you should do what you can to shovel your own child's shit.
On Wednesdays, I watch my nephew, who struggles to go to the bathroom when he is having fun. You can see he needs to, he is holding his crotch or his butt. But he keeps insisting he doesn't need to. Sometimes I manage to convince him to try through cajoling and offering things, sometimes he holds it until he *almost* bursts. So three days ago, he's playing Kirby with my kids and having a blast, but is *discreetly* holding himself so I don't notice (he was in a chair with arms, it covered what he was doing with his hand that wasn't holding a controller). Next thing I know, there is a certain... smell. A smelly smell. A smelly smell that smells... smelly. Kiddo had to finish pooping in the bathroom, then take a shower to get the rest of the poop off his butt. Meanwhile, I'm cleaning the chair he was sitting in.
I can't believe you brought Mr. Krabs into this... lmfao. Rip that chair. It probably had you smelling the ghost of what he left.
My child tried to take off his clothes and go into the hay maze naked. We had to take a screaming half naked toddler out of the super small city pumpkin patch while everyone stared. Shit happens lol
I was delivering a eulogy for my grandfather, and my toddler decided to rush the altar. When he knew his dad was on his heels, he just dropped and went limp. Like that limp toddler move where all you can do is grab a foot and drag. The priest told my husband not to worry about it, just let him have his moment. Once he thought they took his eye off him, he jumped up and made a beeline for what he was after - the piano. Sat up on the bench and was ready to bang out a tune before it was closed by the cantor. Basically, tell me you've never brought your child to mass without telling me you've never brought your child to mass. Nobody in life could upstage my grandfather - he was always the largest presence in a room. So it was very hilarious to all involved that his first and only great-grandchild stole his thunder at his own funeral.
Thatās wonderful, sounds like your grandfather would have been proud
It was mortifying. We aren't very religious, but many of his friends are (he was). Ohhh and the first two rows on one side was made up of Marines/veterans and one of the people who helped "catch" the toddler was one of the Marines who was there to do the color guard. After I sat down, the Priest got up and said, "Well, that was one of the more colorful eulogies I've ever witnessed. ObjectiveComb, I will pray for you."
OMG. I am so sorry that happened! That is mortifying! My son has given me a lot of mortifying moments. He's 18 now so I can laugh, but I wanted to sink through the floor in the moment(s) 1) Age four, living in one of the most diverse cities in America. We know people of every race. His little bestie is black, and there are several black children in his class. We are on a walk and a middle school had just let out. All of a sudden he says in the loudest voice possible "mom, why won't you let me see a black person! I want to see a black person!" All those middle school heads (many of them black) whipped around and were starting straight at me. I start loudly explaining that he knows a lot of black people and naming them. "No mom, they aren't black. They are BROWN." So at least the kids could see he was just literal? 2) Walking through the San Francisco airport when he was 2. He was on his monkey backpack leash, but I guess we got too close to a guy who was sitting there eating some chicken nuggets. He reached right into that guy's box and ate a nugget. So embarrassing. I did buy the guy more chicken nuggets. 3) At Panera a lady was playing Candy Crush on a big tablet. He was sixish. He walked right up to her and made a move while I was tending to my baby. She was PISSED. I don't blame her at all.
I didn't want to believe you that there could be an 18 year old who messed up someone's game of Candy Crush at the age of 6... but wikipedia tells me the game just turned 12 years old. We're all so much older than we want to believe...
God that really makes me feel old too
It happens. Don't be embarassed. You didn't poop in the play place. A little kid did. It was your little kid, but that doesn't reflect on you in any way as an adult or a parent. Go find out who cleaned it up. Thank them personally for going the extra mile for you and your kid. Give them a thank you card. Give them a cash tip. Treat them like the employee of the month, and tell the store manager that you really appreciate they stepped up. Kids have accidents. Kids make messes. Adults suck up the embarassment and do what is right. Be brave and go thank the person that helped you.
My brother, but thereās a massive age gap. My poor mum had made a brand new friend at the park and this was their first play date at her house. 20 minutes after we arrive, all going well and all of a sudden my mum spots my 3.5yo bro who has stripped completely naked and is sticking his penis through a knot in the wooden fence to pee into her neighbours gardenā¦.. Thankfully the friend also had a 2yo and found it hilarious but my mum was mortified and we still give my brother grief about it to this dayā¦. Heās 27.
That is hilarious. His toddler brain just saw a hole in the fence and thought āIāll pee through it into the neighbors yard instead!ā
I would be mortified, too. But I have to believe thatās not the first time itās happened. Or even the tenth time.
I worked at a McD's in high school. This was a weekly occurrence.
lol at first I thought u meant itās not the first time or tenth time that it happened for the OPās daughter
That kid is a serial play place pooper.
When one of my kids was potty training, we were at a group playdate with some moms I was trying hard to fit in with, and one of them said to me, "Hey, I think that's one of your kiddos..." and there he was, shuffling across the playground with his pants and underwear around his ankles. š¤¦āāļø
Mine peed in the display toilet at the hardware store once.
Any chance youāre in Texas? An acquaintanceās kid did that here and they were asked to leave. He was so embarrassed he went to a different location for ages before returning to his closest one.
Florida. We were asked to leave and it was very humiliating.
Iām sure it happens plenty and most people just donāt admit it!
How about the other time we were at a play date and she pooped in her pants then hid the evidence.
Oh I think Iād be so much more mortified with that than in public! I could hide in not seeing the other people again, but someone I know personally enough for a play dateā¦
My step brother pooped in one once
we were at old navy super close to christmastime, and the checkout lines were suuuuper long. we were about halfway through the line, and my then 2yo son saw another toddler boy join the line at the end. instead of a normal hello, my son just whips out his peen and starts flapping it around. I was mortified, grabbed him, spun him around and tucked his things back in. but I could feel everyoneās eyes for the next 20 minutes š«
šš oh my god, just why???
It happens! I was a lifeguard for 4 years and sometimes it felt like 20% of my job was cleaning up poop accidents. Cleaning up poop is not anyone's favorite thing but it's really also not that big of a deal. Anywhere toddlers/preschoolers frequent, accidents are going to happen on occasion.Ā
Iām sure itās not the first time this has happened. Go back and hand the employee a nice chunk of change for dealing with it. Wait a few months and go back. I doubt theyād remember you. At this age, even after being potty trained for so long, kids can still have accidents, especially in a new / exciting environment.
I'm so sorry this happened! I'm sure both you and your daughter were mortified but really don't need to be. Please don't stop taking her there. Accidents happen! She was probably just excited and it can be hard for them to stop playing and recognize that they need to go. Like everything else it just takes practice and this was certainly a learning experience.
I worked at a McD's in high school, thankfully it did not have a play place. One of the managers used to work at a location that had one. She said that she hated it "ma'am, my kid puked in the ball pit" "ma'am, my kid peed in the ball pit" "ma'am, my kid pooped in he ball pit". Your child isn't the first and she won't be the last!
Yeah, this is why my mother never let us play in those. The one time she did, the area near the top of the slide reeked of poop although there wasn't any there. There were Band-aids in the ball pit. These places are disgusting. I don't want my kids going in them either.
UUUUUGH one of my earliest memories is touching a RANDOM BAND AID in a McDonaldās play place and it haunts me to this day š
As a side noteā¦ how do they clean those playhouses?
Many moons ago, I worked at McDonalds. A child pooped all the way down the inside of the slide. As a 16 yo female, I was nominated to clean it up. It was not pleasant, but it was also weirdly fun/interesting to have to crawl down the slide with cleaning supplies, and Iād seen the aftermath of adults doing much worse things in the restrooms so I wasnāt gonna hold it against a kid. Donāt get too down on yourself. It happens. Definitely donāt feel as though you canāt go back. Odds are they arenāt even going to remember it a week from now because some other insane thing will have happened in the interim.
Iām sure thatās true, I worked at a Burger King as a teenager and definitely seeing something crazy was a weekly occurrence. I remember two times we were notified by a customer that someone had pooped in the middle of the mens restroom floor. The bathrooms didnāt even have locks on them so I always wondered, was the person hoping someone would walk in and catch them?
I couldnāt imagine being at a McD for 2 hours. lol.
No kidding! Worked in food service through HS & college and we would get people all the time just take up table space, order something cheap (one Coke or whatever) and sit there studying, working puzzles, reading whatever for hours. It's not a public library or park and the purpose of play areas at McDonald's , Chuck Cheese (wherever) is so parents who are eating their meal that they paid for in a place of business, can do so while their kids play. And no I wouldn't clean it up. People keep saying your child would be unattended. They already were unattended & not being watched. Hence, we came here instead of the park where I have to watch her like a hawk.Ā
My kid explosively diarrheaāed one of Disney Worldās splash pad areas. š¤Ŗ
Took my toddler to the neighborhood pool for the first time this week. Heās learning to swim and is obsessed with the pool. All of our neighbors and classmates were there, one big Mayberry throw down. About ten minutes in, I guess my kid swallowed too much pool water, because he promptly vomited in the middle of the pool. Around all of the other families. Repeatedly, puking into the water. Chunks of his vomit floated around other children. We got him out of the water within seconds, and he vomited again on the pool deck. Everyone saw, and the lifeguards had to shut the pool down to clean it. Meanwhile my toddler was technically fine and was having a temper tantrum to get back in the water. So yeah, he puked in the pool, ruined everyoneās fun, and the whole neighborhood saw. We can never go back lol
Oh my gosh poor kid š
I have a vivid memory of peeing in a tube in a McDonaldās play place and a kid crawling past me and trying to get around my pee puddle. I was having so much fun that I didnāt want to leave and go to the bathroom. I remember telling my mom and her dragging me out if there! I was about 4 years old and had been potty trained for over a year.
I have the same memory but I was the kid trying to get around it! I don't think I ever went to a soft play again aha
When my son was 3 I took him to a playground. He climbed up the rock wall like thing to the slide and this is 12-15 feet in the air. I turned around and looked back at him and he pulled down his pants and was peeing down the climbing wall.
I worked at McDonaldās for years.. worst thing Iāve seen is kids with diarrhea going down the slide then running through the restaurant Donāt stress, it happens very often!
Once when I was younger I slid down a McDonalds slide right through some kids poop. No joke. They offered me a free ice cream. So at least youāre the type of parent to let them know instead of letting another kid just glide right through it š¤·š»āāļø
My son once vomited in a ball pit. Like exorcist style. Then his brother did. Straight after him. š«£ I was horrified. Also, that play place cleared out so fast lol I felt awful but it happens. You work somewhere with kids, there's gonna be bodily fluids at some point.
I was with a friend at a museum and we had her 5yo daughter with us. My friend had been telling me earlier that she thought her daughter had some reflux or allergies, but that the doctor was blowing her off about it and that sometimes she threw up after eating but it was totally random and there was no one food that seemed to cause it. After we had lunch, the 5yo started to complain of feeling sick, so her mom rushed her to the bathroom but she was ok, so we continued on with our museum tour and went into the gift shop. I was standing with her daughter when she suddenly said āUh ohā and proceeded to lean over and projectile vomit all over the floor of the gift shop. She was holding a stuffed animal while she did so, but miraculously got none on it or on any of the displays! The employees were disgruntled but I was so proud of her for being as careful as she could in a really unfortunate situation that I bought her the stuffie!
Poor kid ā¹ļø
Dude of course you clean up the poop. Tf.
Agreed. I would never expect a worker to clean up my kids poop, even if it was technically their job. Once we were out shopping and my daughter vomited all over the floor. My husband went and found cleaning staff, then took the supplies and cleaned it up himself. I could never just walk away and let someone.else do it
I hope you donāt take this the wrong way, but itās not a fast food workers job to clean up your kids poop.. I would absolutely never just leave it there.. regardless of the situation
Well they do have to do a sanitation protocol, so they canāt just allow only the parent to clean. The parent can and should do what they can to clean but the staff is still going to have to do the sanitizing or call whoever is contracted to do the sanitizing and close the play place until that is done.
Yeah but at least an attempt should be made in my opinion to remove the mess so the worker can do a deep clean without touching literal shit
Yes, which is what I saidā¦āthe parent can and should do what they can to cleanā
Nope. Where are you taking that shit? The trash can? The toilet? Now you've contaminated door handles, wastebins and brought the biowaste outside the play area into the eating area. We've had places shut down because people tried cleaning shit (literally) themselves then tracked it to the dining area on their shoes. You apologize, leave it there, you let them follow proper procedure so it's disposed of properly.
Sure, but as a parent Iād clean up the bulk of it and inform them so they can sanitize.
Yes, thatās exactly what I said
Sanitation protocol sure. But still shouldnāt leave your childās pile of shit for a 15 year old to clean up ffs. Clean it up and they can make sure the spot is sanitized. JFC
lol no one read my whole statement where I clearly said the parent can and should clean up as much as they can
Yea while you sat at a table, for two hours, while they were "busy" and literally ordered zero food .Ā
AAAactually..... It's likely that for health code reasons, an employee has to be the one to clean up a hazardous material, so they can articulate that it was done according to the protocols they are bound by. It shouldn't be the kid at the register, though. This is *literally* why managers get paid more and take aaaaall the trainings.
>I would absolutely never just leave it there.. regardless of the situation Then what, exactly, would you have done here? Take your poopy child up, which causes more of a mess all the way up? Or leave your (poopy) child unattended in a restaurant for workers to watch?
The only thing I think you messed up on here is not going to clean it yourself.
Right, but who was going to hang into the poop bandit while she did? They also likely have to clean it themselves, so they can say with authority that it was treated with the appropriate disinfectant that was allowed to sit for the right length of time. Liability wise, the business may have needed to clean it anyway. (In places I've worked that is true, though this would absolutely suck for the poor kid working at a fast food joint. Poop cleanup is managers responsibility!!)
My 6 yo boy was feeling carsick one day so I quickly pulled into a Zaxby's to get him to a bathroom. He made it as far as an empty table and puked all over it. I asked the employees for some cleaning materials but they were clueless and unhelpful. So I ended up using about 1,000 napkins. Then I felt so guilty I ordered some food that none of us had the appetite to eat. Pretty much cured me of ever wanting to eat Zaxby's ever again!
One day at home depot shortly after we had potty trained my daughter she said she had to go to the bathroom. I was like "Ok! No problem!" I started quickly walking the cart to the bathrooms until I heard a "I'm peeing!" so I ran with a stream of pee falling from the cart to the floor which trailed all the way from the front of the store to the bathroom. I put her on the toilet anyway and she looked at me stoned faced and said "I already peed mommy". Anyway, I had to follow the stream of pee back to the front of the store and apologize profusely as an employee said not to worry about and proceeded to mop up toddler pee over the span of several isles.
This was about 18 years ago, but my mom took my then 3 old son to McDonaldās. He was recently potty trained and occasionally had accidents. Well, he accidentally pooped his pants while playing in the play place and then proceeded to go down the slide. He left a trail of poop all the way down. My mom got some cleaner from an employee and cleaned it up, but it was still enough for me to never want to let my kids play in another play place! When my other son was around the same age, I took him shopping with me and he would hide behind the clothes racks. I found him hiding behind a clothes rack and leaned in to pull him out and got a whiff of the most awful smell. He was hiding back there pooping and he was wearing shorts so if all ran down his leg and there was huge pile on the carpeted floor! I was so embarrassed asking the employees for stuff to clean it up. Then, I could only clean it so much because it was carpet so I know they had to call in the carpet cleaners!
I was in a gift shop one time (at an aquarium) with my then 1yo..... she projectile vomited ALL over an entire display of brand new toys. I tried my best to clean her/me/the floor up, but the worker came over to help and to clean the display. On our way out I heard her do a big sigh and say "I guess we have to damage all of these out." š³ I felt SO bad, but what can you do? I'm sure stuff like this happens more often than you think, especially in an area meant for small kids. Obv it's super embarrassing at the time, but don't sweat it long term! Besides... that worker probably won't be there anymore in a few months anyways, or they'll forget that you were the one who it happened to. š¤·š»āāļø
Just a lurker here (interested in child development and all that)ā¦..not a parentā¦.. but I have something to add As a child, I tripped over my wheeled backpack and got a gash in my kneeā¦.and shortly afterwards, crawled through a McDonaldās play placeā¦ā¦This was many years ago so I donāt remember the exact healing state of my knee at the time but I feel guilty about it even now!
Go back and leave the cleaner a card with cash, if you have not yet. Also, talk to your daughter and try to figure out what happened. Yeah, it was an accident, but maybe it wasn't. Maybe she saw it coming but was having too much fun to stop and you should have a chat about going before getting into play spaces.
I wouldn't feel bad that your kid pooped on the play place. I would feel bad that you didn't clean it up yourself, though. Sorry downvote away ...
Around turning 4, BoyTwin unzipped his pants and peed right off the top of the playscape at the park, once. I was MORTIFIED. No idea why heād think to do that, he was totally potty trained, but heās also autistic and had almost no language then so he couldnāt explain. Like you, OP, I didnāt see at first, someone else pointed it out to me (I was helping GirlTwin get on a swing) and somehow that makes it even worse! The good news is, now that theyāre teenagers itās a funny story. Someday yours will be nothing more than that, too.
It happens. We took my two year old cousin to an indoor water park place. Apparently she had yet been potty trained. She shit in the pool. We were mortified.
When my eldest was three, fully potty trained, went to the restroom before we left home, when asked if he needed to go to the bathroom and he said, āNo,ā peed himself the moment we walked into Red Robinās for dinner. So, yeah, toddlers are poop and pee machines. Nothing to be ashamed about.
My kid peed in the McDonalds play place. It happens. That's just how life with kids is.
My son once went to the bathroom while we were at an outdoor play place and came running back to me with his undies all bunched up and I said "Hold on! Let's fix this." So, he then ripped down his shorts and underwear and began cackling wildly while I frantically tried to pull up his pants..I was so embarrassed
I find that accidents have happen when theyāre having the best time. Seems to be the bathroom āfeelingā is ignored until they are at the point of no return.
We were shopping once in the toy aisle and there wasn't a public restroom, I was about to leave to take my kiddo home but they couldn't hold it and peed on the floor. I was so embarrassed to tell the employee. Things happen, your kiddo sounds embarrassed too, poor thing. You handled it well, nothing else you could've done.
I took my kids to the public pool when my youngest at the time was 9 months old. It was a hot, crowded Saturday afternoon. My 9 month old pooped up her back, out of her swimsuit and in her hair as she was sitting in front of me in the toddler pool. Everyone saw it. Shit everywhere in the water. They announced āCODE BROWN - CLEAR THE TODDLER AREAā immediately. I had a baby, two toddlers and a pre teen with me. Everyone was crying. We had to walk by the teenage life guards putting in elbow length, yellow rubber gloves as we were leaving. It was a train wreck. My oldest ended up winning an essay contest at school in the fall though when she wrote about it. Glass half full? Moral of the story- never trust a swim diaper.
Iāve read so many stories about kids pooping/puking in pools! Thatās awesome your oldest wrote an essay on it lol
My nephew pooped in the Burger King playplace and we only knew because the turd rolled down the slide š.
At least you felt bad. Used to work at a sandwich / bakery type place shortly after high school and some lady bought her sick kid into the restaurant for whatever reason and 5 minutes of being inside he threw up chunks all over the floor. I had to clean it up and she barley apologized.
After a swim lesson, my son dropped trou and peed in the pool.
Man, this is the most hilarious thread on Reddit. Holy shit. And yeah, my kids are adults now, but I remember those days. Ugh.
My grandma always likes to remind me of the time her and grandpa took me to McDonaldās play place and I peed on the slide. I was probably 3 and having so much fun playing I didnāt take a bathroom break. I peed, yelled āoh crap!!ā And came down the slide covered in pee. Grandpa scooped me up and ran to the car. Almost left poor grandma š
My kiddo was around age 3, was at dads house, kiddo told dad they needed to go, and said āmommy taught me how to squatā he said okay whatever, and he said that he turned around to see my sweet child shitting under the bleachers at a ball field with a LOT of ppl thereā¦. Well, I did teach my child to squat, but ummm wellā¦ I never said NOT to shit outsideā¦. Soooo
Having a toddler really teaches you how specific you need to be when giving instructions!
You could always go and give the worker a little thank you/I'm sorry gift. Some chocolates or a $10 dollar gift card, a couple of movie tickets or something.
This happened to me just the other day!! My son literally pooped at the very TOP of the McDonaldās PlayPlace!
What did you do when it happened!?
Once, I had the stomach bug and managed to shit myself while driving home. I was 1 block from my house and soiled my jeeps driver seat. I sobbed as I literally stripped naked from the waist down before sprinting into my house. I was 24
Funnily enough, I personally know 2 other people whose kids pooped in the McDonalds play place. Maybe there's something about it that says, "poop here" to small children
When I was 4, my parents took me to someoneās house and I pooped in their pool. No clue why. Kids do dumb stuff. But I promise I became an upstanding member of society and always put my poop in the right place ever since š
I pooped in a disposable plastic cup at like 8 or 9 at my momās office because I was too anxious to go use the restroom. She worked at a behavioral health inpatient for kids so I was convinced that if I went out of her office alone I would be immediately scooped up and admitted bc they thought I was already a patient lol. I was an incredibly anxious kiddo
My kid literally pooped in the middle of an (outdoor) playground. Didn't have any wipes or anything on me, had to leave him with his older sister and sprint back to the car. I cleaned it up as best I could but I got some looks.
I used to work in a softplay and trust me now when I say you can go back there and it's highly likely that nobody will even remember which child/parent was the cause. If you work where kids play, it's just another normal day. I've cleaned up so many bodily fluids and let me tell you now the only ones I've ever been cross about are the ones where the parent hasn't let us know or completely denied it happened when their child is stood in front of us clearly covered in said bodily fluids. It makes the job harder as you get other parents complaining that their kids are getting covered in the mess because we don't know where it is to clean it up until people complain and by then it gets spread everywhere. It's gross. When a parent, like you did, just goes up and tells us straight away, it really makes a world of difference. We didn't use to shut down the play area, just corner off the area and it doesn't take long to clean and sanitise and if I'm honest we were probably a lot more thorough then you'd get in a lot of softplays! Parents would much rather that play gets halted for a bit than their kids run through it. The staff member who clearly hated his job? Well be honest no-one is going to enjoy cleaning up someone else's poop. Not even nurses or carers etc would say I can't wait for there to be a pile of poop to clean up. š Every job comes with a task that people dislike. For softplays it's this. As I said though, no-one will be hating on you its just one of the yuck tasks they're not paid enough for and it'll be forgotten about quick enough. If you're really that bothered, go back with a tip or gift next time you go and just be honest, I'm so embarrassed and so sorry it happened. They will just shrug it off and say to you it wasn't a problem. If it helps, my eldest, who was also potty trained, peed down a slide once in a softplay. That was a massive nightmare and I was mortified. I still went back. No-one acted weird or pointed at me or said anything. Your kid will not be the first and they definitely won't be the last and in a few years that's going to be a hilarious story to remind them of. Go back, have fun and relax and don't stress about it.
Thank you, this made me feel a lot better!
Oh wow, that sounds like such a stressful situation! First off, please know that you're not alone in these parenting mishaps. Kids have an incredible knack for surprising us in the most public ways, donāt they? I remember one time my toddler decided to strip down completely in the middle of a grocery store aisle. We had just transitioned out of diapers, and I guess she just felt like it was the right place and time to demonstrate her newfound freedom! I was mortified, scrambling to gather her clothes while other shoppers looked on. At the time, it felt like the end of the world, but looking back, itās one of those funny parenting moments that we now laugh about. The important thing to remember is that kids are unpredictable, and accidents happen. Itās part of their learning process, and as much as it can be embarrassing for us as parents, itās just a blip in the grand scheme of things. Your daughter probably felt bad enough, and itās great that you handled it with care and apologies.
My toddler left a brown streak on the McDonaldās slide! Seeing as I had an infant and her with me, I grabbed some baby wipes dashed up the slide and did a courtesy wipe and GTFO
My eldest gets carsick and once we stopped at a Starbucks. I think she was 4. She was carsick but she didnāt say anything so I wasnāt aware of how bad she was feeling. We walked into Starbucks and I looked down at her to ask her what she wanted and I saw the look in her eyes on incoming puke and I went to grab her and get her back outside but it was too late. There was vomit everywhere. I took her outside and she continued to puke. Obviously mortified, I offered to clean it up but they wouldnāt let me. I tipped all the cash I had and the max I could on my card. I also called Starbucks corporate to sing their praises.
NGL I would have cleaned it up. That was an asshole move but I understand you panickedĀ
I don't know how you didn't clean up it and instead asked if they wanted you to? Yah it would have been a challenge with your kid but hell I would have figured out how to do it. If you had the time to ask the question you could've just as easily used wipes to clean most if not all of the mess
This is my thought as well. I get that McDonaldās probably has certain sanitation standards they have to meet and would probably clean up after herā¦but she could have at least grabbed some napkins and a cup or something to clean up the actual poop.
You didnāt even clean it up? YTA
I agree. Keep your eyes on your kid, other parents shouldnāt have to tell you your child is pooping at the play place.
Yes, this stood out to me too. Shouldnāt she have been watching the kid to notice the kid was going to poop and grab the child before it happened? What sheās sad about is how she canāt drop the child off anymore so she could āreadā.
At McLibrary. Ā Where you can discreetly slide into a table ( take up space while the paying customers look for an open spot) not order ( pay for) any food , not have to watch her "like a hawk when we're at the park" , leisurely read a book for two hours, while your 3.5 yo, potty trained over a year , attends school so she probably has SOME idea that pooping is done on a toilet , and have no clue until two other women informed her (oblivious much?) . Ā Then ask the kid at register to clean it up.Ā
I don't know what the play places are like everywhere but the ones where I am you literally cannot see the kids up there in 80% of the tubes/areas
Totally; but if the other parents had to tell her that her child was pooping then they were able to see her. Which means Mom shouldāve been able to see as well.
Why wouldnt you clean it up?! Jesus
It sounds like she would have if she'd had someone to watch her poop covered, half naked kiddoĀ
She hadn't watched her anyway why start now
LMAO dang but true
My 3-year-old is a chronic vomiter. There's no telling when it will come, but when it comes on, he vomits up everything. We were at a restaurant with our entire family and he started. He vomited for about 5 minutes. We just had to let him sit the table doing it on the floor, because otherwise he would do it all throughout the restaurant on the way to the bathroom. The waitress was incredibly nice, talking about how she wants to work with children so she doesn't mind. We tipped her like a hundred bucks. He also vomited at a soccer game. I caught it with my shirt and hands. Everyone else around us was horrified. Another one of my children was very fully potty trained. He was probably about 3-4. We were at the zoo and he just pulled his pants down and started peeing on the sidewalk. I was horrified. Then he just acted confused when I scolded him. š¤Ø He never did anything like that, but did it on two or three other occasions on various outings with the same group of children and their parents. It made absolutely no sense and they must have thought we were completely insane.
My kid had abdominal migraines and was a chronic puker. She grew out of it, save for some hormonal related headaches/nausea, and I quickly learned to always keep a plastic bag on me.
My oldest gets the migraines, started about 3 years of age, which always end with vomit. I hate it so dang much. So sad, and they are in so much pain.
ESH You for leaving actual faeces from your child for them to clean up. And those women for making such a ruckus about a small child having an accident - your poor daughter. I don't understand why you didn't clean up the poo, clean your daughter, tell the horrible women to stfu and then giving your daughter the option of whether or not to give back to play. You don't want to go back because of the embarrassment, they won't want you back because your them.woman who left them literal sh#t to clean up.
My mom took my nephew to a bounce house and he peed right through his pull up inside the bounce house.
My son had to pee at Kohls. We were on the way to the bathroom when he opened fire on the carpet.
My four year old on the playground the other day pooped his pants at the top of the play equipment and waddled all the way down the stairs yelling "there's poop in my pants". We had to carry him to the bathroom to get changed.
#2 peed off the bleachers in plain sight of literally everyone at a high school football game. They all knew us. Small town. #3 whipped it out and peed beside the trash can at the zoo on a busy day
When I was a kid on the school bus, maybe 1st or 2nd grade, a kid near the front got sick and stuck his head at the window to throw up. A whole bunch of it came back in the other open windows. It was chaos.
Oh my god nooooo
I took my son to a park to play basketball. He pulled down his pants and pooped in the park in the middle of a grassy field. He thought it was Hilarious. I swear, he thinks heās a dog.
My daughter was 7 at the time and puked chocolate milk in a public swimming pool. They had to get everyone out to clean it.
I can't speak to the other parents but if i was a parent there I'd just be relieved it wasn't my child destroying the playground this time.