I decided to take my three young kids to an olympic-sized pool to play. I was exhausted from carting everything we needed to the end of the pool and nervous because there was no kiddie-safe shallow area and none of my kids could swim. When we finally got into the pool my three and five-year-old kids were hanging on the edge, and I had the baby in my arms.

“Whew! We made it,” I thought.

But then my three year old says, “Mom, I need to pee!”

I quickly weigh my options: he is too young to go all the way to the bathroom by himself; I cannot leave my daughter in the pool and certainly not the baby; so I would have to get the whole crew back out of the pool and walk all the way back to the bathrooms, which of course were a long ways away.

I whispered quietly, “Just pee in the pool.”

He didn’t say anything more. Next thing I know he had climbed out of the pool and was standing at the edge near me. I am thinking he wants to jump to me and make a big splash, but no. He pulls down his pants, stands on the edge and pees IN the pool! I could have died. He was doing exactly what I told him to do, just in much different way than I meant. – Taylor, AZ

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