Parents debate whether it's OK to let kids pee in public

Of course! A little "nature pee" never hurt anyone.

• I have three small boys and let me tell you that they pee, and pee often! Worse, America is full of @!$%#s that will not let a small child use their bathrooms (even if we purchase from their business). It is quite often a choice of peeing on a tree or pee in the pants. I'll choose the tree over forc …

• I have never heard of such a thing. Where did you encounter that?

• Just me, I doubt YOU have ever trained children! If you had you would know that kids often have to pee 10 minutes after the last time they went... you can't always plan to be within a short trip from a bathroom. Stop being so judgmental. Pee isn't disgusting intrinsically, some people even drink it  …

• Just me, as I mentioned in an earlier post I'm raising three small children, boys. You want to force your child to hold pee until he pisses his pants then I feel sorry for you. No, I don't let them drop their pants and pee anytime they wish - just in emergencies. See, I love my kids and I don't care …

• Great parents--get them started early on disgusting behavior

• And what is it we are excited about ? NOTHING ! This is just a diversionary tactic by the ultra-left socialists and communists to deflect our attention from the pis*y job this destroyer in the Oval Office has been doing.

• Who is Kate Middleton? I think it's OK to let my kid pee in public if they have no other option and I also think it's great if women show nipples, wear scanty clothing or even if they go topless. Not sure why you would associate the two things?

• NO, screw that... I'm not forcing my kid to piss himself because you won't allow him to use your bathroom or because it upsets your silly notion of right and wrong. Get over it grandma.

• What an inane comment. You think because a toddler pees in the bushes he will think that's OK as an adult? Silly and stupid thing to say and you can't expect anyone to buy it. I myself peed in bushes and on trees often as a child and I never do so as an adult... see I have this thing called a brain  …

Should kids go vegan?

Great idea! We are vegans.

• This is ridiculous! Not the article, the responses. I'm also a biochemist and my kids eat mostly vegan/vegetarian diet (with some fish occasionally) and they are MUCH healthier than their schoolmates that eat the standard unhealthy American diet. The science is clear, veganism is the superior and mo …

• I didn't get to the top of the food chain to eat vegetables!

• Well slow clap for your soapbox rant Overlord. Any more information from your "physician husband" that you're so fond of talking about? *sarcasm intended*.

• Vegan? Even if it really were better for you, better to die eating good food than live eating crap.

• The human animal is highly adapted to utilizing multiple food sources to extract needed nutrition. For processed foods I totally agree that labeling is suspect and can't be trusted. However, humans have subsisted for many thousands of years eating fruits, grains and vegetables and you can be certain …

• MrKNowItAll, I have no idea why you would find it necessary to challenge my honesty. I'm not sure what "terms" you are referring to but you didn't list any actual data or information about your "research" which is what someone with my credentials is interested in. Your conclusions do not make it cle …

• Medical doctors, scientists, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the facts say otherwise. It would be interesting to hear why you would want to subject your kids to the unhealthy standard American diet?

• But, the fact that you, Overlord, cannot seem to even get your brain around the fact that there are not just two things in the world--vegan and the "American diet"--indicates that I am wasting my time with you. I hope, however, to have injected a tiny bit of rationality into the conversation.

• What is happening is that people with political agendas (PETA) are trying to infringe on my rights to eat what I want.

• In my state the state Farm Bureau has introduced and legislation has been passed to create an oversite board on how animals are treated and slaughtered.

• Cow's milk is not healthy for children, look it up. Why would you feed your child a substance that is designed to promote the growth of a calf? It is full of hormones, steroids, antibiotics, puss, and many other compounds that are unhealthy. I'm not trying to force anyone to eat anything they don't  …

• If vegans get off their high-horses or come out of their ivory towers and objectively look at available information, they might understand that it's not animal products but what is added to them in processing.

• I think you need to take a step back and actually look at what you're saying. You just shot a hole in your own argument.

• Clearly the point was to show that eating a non-animal based diet is healthy and an all-animal diet is deadly. If you can't gain anything from that basic insight then disregard it. What you can't disregard is the fact that our entire bodies from dentition (excellent post rpearlston) to our GI tract  …

• Jon, please. The typical omnivorous diet of our ancestors included mostly bugs, worms, and whatever we could scavenge from other predators plus of course lot's and lot's of berries, fruits and veggies. Obviously giant 2lb steaks, chicken McNuggets and pink slime were not available to us. Again, if y …

• I'm done arguing with you. You have just about as much of an ability to prove your point as a petulant 5 year old.

• I personally respect other people's rights to choose whatever they want but I don't always respect their actual choice. If you smoke I respect that right, but I don't respect smoking. Similarly, I respect your right to eat anything you want to but I don't respect morbid obesity. I respect your right …

• One 100g serving of black rice (forbidden organic rice) alone provides 10% of daily iron requirements. Not to mention 21% protein, 17% fiber and high levels of trace elements and huge amounts of anthocyanin antioxidants. That's before I eat any vegetables! One cup of spinach (I eat at least 4 cups d …

• See you both in the cath-lab!

Are parents responsible for teen drinking, even if they don't know about it?

No

Parents should stop obsessing over their kids' happiness -- easier said than done

Yes. Parents today seriously need to take a step back.