What is your pool locker room policy?

[Anonymous]

Locker rooms are disgusting anyway. Who uses them? Yuck! We wear a robe and drive home for shower.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We've always taken lessons there and I feel for the moms of boys there, but- it was unsettling for me when I had my 4 yo dd and 7 yo dd in there and a mom brought her 5 and 7 year old boys who know my daughters in there to change. My girls were naked and it just wasn't right - especially for my older daughter.

I agree, it would be nice if you all had another room, not just that one, but - the same thing happens at the Burke Centre pools for you too.

I would speak to management about it.

Why would that be unsettling? Isn't that just you projecting your issues?

My son got embarrassed at 5 being naked in the women's locker room. I'm sure older kids are much more sensitive.

[Anonymous]

My son is 5 and I make him change in a stall in the women's locker room at the pool. First of all, he struggles to get out of a wet swimsuit without help. Second of all, I would be concerned to send him into the men's locker room alone for safety reasons. Maybe next year I will feel differently. It is not the most comfortable situation because he knows three girls in his swim class. He doesn't want them to see him naked, and he doesn't want to see them naked either.

[Anonymous]

I just love those who respond "rules be damned, I'm doing whatever the hell I want anyway!" You will also be the first to scream about injustice when the pool staff calls you out on your lack of ability to follow the rules. And don't even get me started on the lady who thinks its fine to poke her head into the men's locker room and catch glimpses of butts and nuts of unsuspecting men!
Why don't you just find a pool that is more family friendly?!

[Anonymous]

My 4 yr old is demanding to be allowed to change by himself in the men's room. So far he is able to manage changing from dry clothes to dry bathing suit. He struggles with wet suit to dry clothes though. But he's working towards it. Every time we go to the pool he tries. I'll assume by the summer he will be able to change himself.

To the poster who mentioned that the lockers rooms are large and confusing, that's true but with repetition, he will remember. Once my son masters the wet to dry change, I will have a staff member show him the way through the locker room.

With the number of families at the pool during swim lessons, I'm having a hard time imagining what would happen to a young boy in a male locker room.

Do people believe that a young boy is going to be touched in appropriately in the locker room amongst a roomful if dads with their sons? You don't think any man will step up and stop the inappropriate behavior and everyone will just ignore it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 4 yr old is demanding to be allowed to change by himself in the men's room. So far he is able to manage changing from dry clothes to dry bathing suit. He struggles with wet suit to dry clothes though. But he's working towards it. Every time we go to the pool he tries. I'll assume by the summer he will be able to change himself.

To the poster who mentioned that the lockers rooms are large and confusing, that's true but with repetition, he will remember. Once my son masters the wet to dry change, I will have a staff member show him the way through the locker room.

With the number of families at the pool during swim lessons, I'm having a hard time imagining what would happen to a young boy in a male locker room.

Do people believe that a young boy is going to be touched in appropriately in the locker room amongst a roomful if dads with their sons? You don't think any man will step up and stop the inappropriate behavior and everyone will just ignore it?

I'm the PP whose kid found the locker room to very confusing . It was summer and there was no one in there. No staff to help for sure. I went in to get him. There isn't always a roomful of dad's. Not that I think my kid will be molested by strangers. There is little risk of that. Inability to open heavy doors though, or otherwise find his way out, that's a real risk. But we deal with it.

[Anonymous]

You cann ot be with your 7-8 year olds every second of every day. You are doing them a disservice by not teaching them life skills.

[Anonymous]

Chinquapin in Alexandria says no different sex kids in locker rooms after age four. My son and I change before we go. To the pool and then line up for the family room. It sucks, but honestly, it is awkward with the old ladies walking around completely naked and the boys getting older. Fwiw, we just recently started going to chinquapin and he is now five. Our old pool's policy was six and up, so we didn't when he was 4-5, but I felt it was awkward or getting awkward. And I would never send my son into the men's room by himself at this age. He can't get himself in and out of wet clothes and all the locker rooms are disgusting anyway. I have no way of tracking him down and making sure he doesn't waste 20. Minutes doing heavens knows. I just wish public pools had more. Family facilities...

[Anonymous]

FYI, Wilson's policy is no kids over THREE in the OS locker room. But Wilson also has four large private family rooms to change in--each has a lav, a shower, a sink, a baby changing table and bench to sit on. They are about 8x8--much much roomier than, say, a handicapped stall. My only beef with them is that the floors don't drain well and they are always, always, always soaking wet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does child molestation occur if the locker room is full of other men. Not saying id let my 4 year old go in alone,but have a friend who doesn't want her 8 year old going in and have yet to hear a valid concern.

Obviously all the men circle around and watch because every man is a child molestor.

I don't know ask Penn State! Look a man walked in on it and did nothing. Men don't like to get involved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At Wilson Pool (public) in DC, boys over six I think cannot be in the women's room. I bring my eight year old nephew there a lot and am always nervous about him being in the men's room alone. He seems to handle it well, but I've stuck my head in there, and yes, I've seen some asses and junk of grown men. I don't care. My nephew's safety is paramount.

. Would you be similarly nonchalant if a man was sticking his head in the woman's locker room and saw your tits and ass?

You would't care if men started looking in the women"s locker room?. Oh, please. You (or another women) would be complaining to mgmt and calling the cops in a heartbeat. Just stop with the double standard. Not every man is dying to show you his junk.

[Anonymous]

This gets discussed periodically and the outcome is always the same -- some mothers are going to take their sons into the woman's locker room regardless of the policy. People try to reason with them, but it is no use. They don't care about the comfort of your daughters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At Wilson Pool (public) in DC, boys over six I think cannot be in the women's room. I bring my eight year old nephew there a lot and am always nervous about him being in the men's room alone. He seems to handle it well, but I've stuck my head in there, and yes, I've seen some asses and junk of grown men. I don't care. My nephew's safety is paramount.

Why are you nervous about him being on the men's locker room alone?

[Anonymous]

The biggest problem in the Wilson pool locker room is the rampant theft. Some have even suuggested it's the staff who are stealing things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At Wilson Pool (public) in DC, boys over six I think cannot be in the women's room. I bring my eight year old nephew there a lot and am always nervous about him being in the men's room alone. He seems to handle it well, but I've stuck my head in there, and yes, I've seen some asses and junk of grown men. I don't care. My nephew's safety is paramount.

Why are you nervous about him being on the men's locker room alone?

There was a man trying to lure boys into the locker room.