Moms with boys using men’s locker room?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like they were trying to follow a dumb rule of not letting young boys into the girls locker room after swim class by breaking an even larger rule of not letting adults of the opposite gender into the wrong locker room. The swim class should have advised these parents how to handle it if their 7 year old boys can’t change by themselves yet.

Also, this is a troll, because 5-7 year old kids are in school at this time.

New poster here

I believe him.
About 10 years ago I actually left a pool because of the open locker room situation. I swam during the day, and a lot of homeschoolers brought their kids to swim as well.
The young boys would come use the womens locker room while I was in their changing (again, completely open locker room!) It was just too awkward and I ended up cancelling my membership.

I wonder if OP belongs to the same pool I used to belong to?

[Anonymous]

In the past I brought my 7yo ds into the girls locker room. We stayed in a corner outside of the main changing area and I had him face the wall and swapped clothes as zippy as possible and got out of there.

If the facility doesn’t have a family room, you can just feel stuck. I wasn’t going to send him alone into the men’s room. And I don’t think it was appropriate of those women to go into the men’s room.

[Anonymous]

Just give the ladies the full monty and go ahead with your day.

[Anonymous]

Were the moms hot or not? This changes my answer.

[Anonymous]

Mom going into the men’s locker room is not ok.

Oh, the irony.

[Anonymous]

If there were only two choices I’d bring my 7 y/o boy into a women’s room before walking into a men’s room

Fortunately I’ve never been anywhere w/o family changing rooms

[Anonymous]

My solution is to pop a bathrobe on my kid and change them in the car. It’s super obnoxious. One of the reasons we switched to Goldfish. They have an open, gender-neutral shower area and an individual changing area.

[Anonymous]

The family room needs space for multiple families to change or it’s not useful. Some just have the one combined bathroom shower, and it would take an hr for 6 kids to use depending on whether the parents also had them shower.

Kids can change in the car. Adults can drive home wet. Boys can use the women’s room. Moms can go into the men’s room.

The reason why family changing rooms don’t exist is because people kind of accommodate instead of uniformly make demands. They also complain because accommodations don’t work uniformly. Finally they fight about the applications instead of making demands.

Find out the pool policy, ask that people adhere to it, and if you don’t like the pool policy, ask for good sized family changing rooms.

Our pool policy was boys under 7 go with mom to the women’s bathroom. Also, girls under 7 go with dads to the men’s bathroom. If you have a problem with that, take it up with management. Everyone else is following the rules.

[Anonymous]

Am I the only one who thinks this is hilarious as a tired mom? No I would not go into a men's locker room. But I'm a mom of two boys, kind of sick of DH, have a male dog, and I'm a nurse. I've had it up to here with "peepees". No mom is going to care about the OP's.

(but not to make light of the situation. It's especially funny to think of the Soviet era poster saying this was the norm. The babushkas probably make sure you are scrubbing behind your ears).

[Anonymous]

Mom of 2 boys. There are family changing rooms at the rec centers around us and we just used those. If those didn’t exist, I would have taken them into the women’s locker room. Once they got too old for that, we’d skip changing and just get in the car with a towel.

I would not send a boy into a rec center men’s locker room alone pretty much ever. Too many predators out there.

There is absolutely no way I would ever find it acceptable to go into a men’s locker room. Report it to management before you swim next time.

[Anonymous]

That’s absolutely not OK. I am a mom of a boy and a girl and I would never have done this. You need to talk to your gym management. They can put signs up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn't read the entire novel you wrote but guessing there were women in the men's locker with kids. NO that is not normal AT ALL. Had this been reversed I'm guessing security would have been involved in a nano second.

Not normal and you should say something at the front desk.

[Anonymous]

I don’t believe this happened. Wake up sheeple.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one who thinks this is hilarious as a tired mom? No I would not go into a men's locker room. But I'm a mom of two boys, kind of sick of DH, have a male dog, and I'm a nurse. I've had it up to here with "peepees". No mom is going to care about the OP's.

(but not to make light of the situation. It's especially funny to think of the Soviet era poster saying this was the norm. The babushkas probably make sure you are scrubbing behind your ears).

I don’t find it funny and it doesn’t matter if you don’t care about seeing OP’s “peepee.” That isn’t the point at all. It’s a space for men and you dont belong in their for their sake, not yours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one who thinks this is hilarious as a tired mom? No I would not go into a men's locker room. But I'm a mom of two boys, kind of sick of DH, have a male dog, and I'm a nurse. I've had it up to here with "peepees". No mom is going to care about the OP's.

(but not to make light of the situation. It's especially funny to think of the Soviet era poster saying this was the norm. The babushkas probably make sure you are scrubbing behind your ears).

I don’t find it funny and it doesn’t matter if you don’t care about seeing OP’s “peepee.” That isn’t the point at all. It’s a space for men and you dont belong in their for their sake, not yours.

But I identify as male in that situation. Still a no go??