“Mom, can I also pee in the sea? Alin does all the time. And his mother”- how did I get to spend my vacation more on the sand
The sea is not a public toilet, and children should learn this from their parents. Photo: Shutterstock
This summer I spent seven days at sea with my family. I chose an area that turned out to be more crowded than I had anticipated, but as the beach was long and wide, and the sea, did not bother me too bad. I went on vacation set in the Zen mode, especially since I already have older children, who do not cry every ten minutes to resume their conflicts and which are not done, every half hour, hunger/ thirst, as when they were young. With the thought of the frappe that was to be brought to my lounge chair, in the third morning of leave, Tihna was disrupted by the question of a boy playing with another, on the water's edge: “Mamaaaa, can I pee in the sea? Alin said that he will do it all the time!” I didn't hear what my mother answered, but my throat stood in my throat that morning.
Maybe I would have easily forgotten the episode with Alin and his mother who “always pee in the sea”, convinced that there are exceptions, if I had not had a discussion with four parents at noon. Our children are colleagues and good friends, so on their way home from a farther resort they stopped lunch with us. Talking to them about what the beach, the sea, the prices, the tourists in the area where we stay, I told them, in a long time, that that day I was a little crazy to jump in the waves of that little boy. I was not surprised to find that I intrigued my anger rather than the fact that the people, small and big, ease in the sea. It was quite clear to me from their attitude that they do not run on the beach in search of toilets.
Risks of small but not non -existent
“What is a big deal in the water? The sea is big, it goes,” you could say. That's right. But if in that sea of people, every child and every adult are easier when they come, we can't get some in the urine, diluted, what is right, of others? Although the urine is made up largely of the water, it can also contain bacteria, which, by swallowing, contact with wounds or eyes, can reach another body.
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