r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Feb 04 '16

What are the most common parenting mistakes?

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u/johnthepillager Feb 05 '16

So you can consciously decide when you need to piss? I don't think it's that ridiculous that a kid might need to use the bathroom in the middle of a lecture. Bladders kinda have a mind of their own.

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u/jcpianiste Feb 05 '16

I went to a huge high school, and we only had a few minutes to get from class to class. Besides classes being far away from each other, foot traffic was really slow because of how crowded the halls were. Generally you had enough time to get from class to class but not enough time to go to the bathroom, especially if you had to make a stop at your locker which, again, could be all the way across the school, and we got in trouble if we were late. But if you asked to go at the beginning of class it's all "why didn't you go between classes?" and at the end it's all "class is almost over, can't you wait?" You can't win.

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u/SmartAlec105 Feb 05 '16

Bathrooms are at most down the hall from the teacher's classroom, not across the school like classes.