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It's my firm belief that everybody has peed in a pool. I think that if:a) you were ever a child and
b) you have entered a public pool more than three times in your childhood that
you have indeed peed in a pool.
Am I wrong?
I was thinking about this as Nolan stood buck naked in the scorching sun yesterday afternoon, looking with awe as he peed without shame in the pool. Just as shamelessly, I continued to stand beside him, immersing my feet into the cool blue. I was brought back to being 6, at my friend Lisa's above-ground chlorinated pool. I thought it was the most luxurious delight in the world.
"Don't pee in the pool!" I remember her brother saying,"It'll turn red and everyone will know!" And so I dutifully held it, running into the bathroom in dripping swim garb to use the facilities when neccessary.
At dinner tonight, my brother and I were talking about the red pee-combattant potion.
"Do you remember hearing about that stuff?" I asked.
"Everyone heard about that stuff," he replied,"It was an eighties and nineties scare tactic for kids."
So when I got home I googled "peeing in the pool turn red?" Google turned up over a million results. Awesome.
The most concrete result came from Snopes, the reliable Urgend Myth page. It declares that the Red Pee Compound of Shame does not (and has never) existed. But we don't have to tell our kids that, especially if we want to use the same pool as them.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
7-05-2007 @ 9:12AM
Jill said...A well respected (adored) lifeguard potty trained my son by telling him, in a very serious voice, that anyone who peed in the pool would have to go home. He wasn't potty trained on land for another few months, but boy did he have to go when we got home from those swimming lessons!
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7-05-2007 @ 11:30AM
Nancy Toby said...I thought we covered this a month ago...
http://www.parentdish.com/2007/06/04/do-kids-really-pee-in-public-pools/#comments
See comments....
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7-05-2007 @ 11:20AM
Meg said...Please, on behalf of all of us who swim in public pools, take the time to educate your children on why peeing in said pools is not okay and if they're too young, put them in swim diapers until they are old enough to act appropriately! If I saw a mother just standing next to her toddler looking on cheerfully as he peed right into the pool I was swimming in, I'd be pretty unhappy and if I were the lifeguard, I'd be booting them both out the door too. Despite what so many mothers seem to believe, it's NOT actually adorable when their little ones pee in public! But in your and Nolan's case, this was your OWN pool he was peeing in, right? Not a public pool, right? Cuz if it had been a public pool, you would've grabbed him and turned him away when you saw him start to pee, right? And then giving him a stern talk about why that's not okay, right??
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7-05-2007 @ 11:30AM
Kristin said...Woops I missed this. Sorry Nancy, and all.
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7-05-2007 @ 1:17PM
SKL said...Warning about pool diapers:
I have read in several places that pool diapers don't actually keep the pee out of the pool. They leak!! One mom found this out as she carried her dry baby on her hip before they got to the pool. His pee went running down HER leg! Maybe they do keep the poo out of the pool, but not the pee.
Anyhoo, it is TRUE to tell kids that if they pee in the pool, the water around them will turn bright green (assuming the water is chlorinated). That was enough for me once I was old enough to hang out at the pool without my parents. EEK!
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