Plan ahead? Dude when a two year old has to go there is no planning. Was she supposed to change him into his pull ups? Or maybe carry a piss bottle? The great thing about being two is peeing where you want when you want. I'm late 20s and I still piss in public. Maybe not on a light pole but still. Ever watch the YouTube videos of kids shitting in a hardware store toilet? All I'm saying is even when you think your kid is potty trained and you ditch the pull ups and back up plans kids have accidents.
Imo there is planning. The mother could have been prepared.
I've been to restaurants with toddlers. I ask "do you need to go?" Innocent wide-eyed No, and the five minutes later ... right.
So I reject any argument that this isn't on the mother.
After all, she could have put him in a pull-up after a restaurant meal ...
I will tell you the part that i really dislike - the citing officer claiming a public=protection angle because of possible pervs. Lame and weak imo. Ticket her for public urination because it's improper, okay. But to wuss out and claim "I'm trying to help you be a better parent" was two-faced of the citing officer.
If that is indeed the way it went down ... we have one angry parent's unconfirmed version as the whole story. This is conjecture, of course, but I consider it possible that a hurried woman whose profession is "a licensed social worker and sex education counselor also trained in early childhood education issues" might have been visibly offended when the cop began lecturing her. A yuppie mom who's taken a broadside to her professional esteem is a fearsome force. cn
