I have 3 children under seven years old. At any moment one inevitably yells “I gotta pee!”  It doesn’t matter where we are. We could be in the supermarket line at which point I have to abandon my cart and run the length of the store with three small children to avert an accident , yelling at the employees as to where the bathroom is. Heaven forbid that the bathroom door has a coded lock !

We enjoy frequent road trips.  I now have a three-year-old who is almost potty trained, and doesn’t quite understand that mommy doesn’t carry a toilet in her bag. Of course she says “Peepee” 100 times a day  , and when I ask her does she need she says “no”.  It’s peepee roulette.

We do our best to make them all go to the toilet before we get in the car,  but still 30 minutes into the journey we have to leave the freeway and look for a gas station bathroom.  If you are lucky ,the key will not be chained to an old tire or a concrete block,  and there may not be a pool of urine on the floor.  Even luckier is that you don’t go in the bathroom after a trucker has been in there for  20 minutes. No amount of air freshener can save you then !

I was browsing on Amazon.com today and looking for travel items related to iPods.  Some suggestions came up at the bottom and one of them was the picture at the top of this blog.

Travel urinals for children !  Who knew? You can’t make this shit up.

According to the description , the child urinates into the bag and it activates a gel and solidifies.

We are embarking on a long journey ( 21  hours on an airplane )  in the Spring , and trying to fit three children and myself into one of those small bathrooms on the plane just so ONE of them can pee is my idea of Hell !

This crazy idea just might work ! I have ordered a pack of six and my seven-year-old should be grateful because he was going to be in a diaper until I found these!

Some of you may be horrified at the thought of my child peeing into a bag on the plane under his blanket , but I’m going to try it anyways. Not for the little girl , but for the boys.

Actually thinking about it gives me shivers of air hostesses chucking us off , or someone tweeting that I “am allowing my child to pee on the seats ” when I’m sure worse offenses happen on planes. I remember when people could smoke on planes as long as they did it at the back! Because that really helped the smell and second-hand smoke not fill the plane.

Maybe I’ll just keep them for the car , at least I can control that environment.

So, the next time you are on a plane and you see someone fumbling under their blanket, it could be that they too saw the same product as me and thought to give it a go ! I hope………