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When They Gotta Go, Give Them This
Apr 24 2008 by Courtney Messenbaugh
Make Sure You Don’t Accidentally Drink This
The next time you’re trying to think of that monster idea or product to make your million, you can cross this one off your list: My Pee Pee Bottle. Like the name implies, it’s a simple, on-the-go “potty and hygiene aid” for traveling toddlers, according to its manufacturers. Just tuck it into your purse before you hit the road and reduce the fuss of having to pull the car over at skeevy public restrooms. It’s leak-proof, odor-proof AND dishwasher safe! It also looks uncannily similar to any old polycarbonate (i.e., plastic with a big screw-on cap) water bottle you can buy almost anywhere these days.
I visited the company website (located, where else, at www.mypeepeebottle.com), which led me to YouTube to view the product’s promotional video. Apparently, a savvy young mother came up with the idea that her daughter (and toddlers everywhere) could pee into a water bottle. Apparently, this truly daring woman and her husband — Alexandra and Troy — got freaked out when their daughter contracted rotavirus from a public toilet. FYI, rotavirus causes some serious bowel activity, and most kids will contract it by the age of 3.
According to the press kit, My Pee Pee Bottle stands alone in the marketplace (I can’t imagine why). Well, it’s alone if you don’t count folks who buy one of those aforementioned water bottles on their own. I guess the difference is that those people are initially buying their bottles to drink water out of, not to, er, refill.
Alexandra and Troy say My Pee Pee Bottle is easy to use and not at all messy. I don’t buy it for a second, and here’s why: My husband (who has been potty trained for about 35 years, as far as I know) can’t even hit the wide mouth of our toilets with any accuracy. Seriously. I find vestiges of his “aim” on the seat, the floor, the walls, you name it. I have a hard time believing my toddling son, who is no potty pro at this point, will be able to aim into the Pee Pee Bottle’s smallish hole.
Alexandra and Troy, I wish you the best of luck, but I think I’m going to stick to drinking water out of my polycarbonate bottle and making my son use public restrooms on road trips and just see how that goes for a while. Maybe I’ll buy stock in a hand-sanitizer company.
User Comments
And what about girls? Aim isn’t exactly a skill…
Super idea! The idea that an adult male doesn’t bother to aim carefully at a distant toilet… This has NO connection with someone putting a wide-mouth bottle directly against their body. NOTE - Look at how wide the mouth of the bottle is. THINK about how small little kid’s body parts are.
I think the narrow center section is brilliant. A young child’s small hand can still hold the center section.
Now, about the gender question - yes, it’s different for girls. But guess what? Girls can aim too! And again, remember that this bottle is supposed to be held directly against the body.
Final NOTE - hand the kid a tissue or a paper towel, to dry any little drops. Then put the bottle into a plastic bag until the bottle can be emptied and rinsed and / or washed.
A stray drop or two of urine is NOTHING compared to a pint of urine in soaking wet PANTS!
The bottles are brilliant. I can’t wait to buy some.
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I have to say that my friend and I discovered this idea long before they made the bottle. Trust me, any wide-mouth plastic bottle is a perfect “on the road” potty. And I assure you that a girl can aim well enough to pee in a bottle that wide, even when she is far from sober. My only suggestion is make sure you have hand sanitizer with you on the ride. ; )
eww.
REcent studies are suggesting that a substance called bisphenol-A (BPA) used in the making of polycarbonate bottles (i.e., the very bottles used for My Pee Pee Bottles & the ones that I suggested one use for the more traditional drinking use) out of instead) is potentially harmful to people, as traces of it leak into whatever substance is in the bottle. This has shown an increased cancer risk in lab rats. With this news in mind, I stand corrected - people SHOULD use them for an on-the-go potty and forgo using htem for drink. I stand corrected…
I have two boys and we have definitely used water bottles as impromptu potties in a pinch. I don’t know about the rest of you , but my kids have small bladders. Especially my little one. There is a very short window between, “Mom, I have to go to the bathroom” and an all-out body thrashing, moaning, red faced desperate panic! I am trying to teach him to notice earlier, but in the meantime, what happens when we are in the carpool lane or stuck in traffic on the highway with no place to pull over? I’ll tell you what - the pee pee bottle!
I thaibk peepee bottle is yucky. but a little boy that is my child,Daren, he is always peeing in his pants in the car. my little girl is afraid to sit anyware he has been. But that all changed when I baught a My Pee Pee Bottle for him!
Well I think any guy who has gone on a long road trip, especially during the college years, has filled up a bottle without much issue.
However, trying to get a small child to do it when they’re still learning how to use a toilet is another issue. I think it would be really confusing for them and you’re teaching them to go wherever they want. I can’t possibly imagine what would happen in the classroom one day…