What is your pool locker room policy?

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Anonymous wrote:Let's flip the question around....where does your 4 yr old daughter get changed when daddy takes her to swimming lessons?

She changes before at home.

And what about after the pool-- when she is wet and has to get home?

Drive home in a wet suit with a towel. A little water isn't going to hurt the leather seats.

That's fine in July. What do you do at 6pm in Feb when it's 30 degrees out?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's flip the question around....where does your 4 yr old daughter get changed when daddy takes her to swimming lessons?

She changes before at home.

And what about after the pool-- when she is wet and has to get home?

Drive home in a wet suit with a towel. A little water isn't going to hurt the leather seats.

That's fine in July. What do you do at 6pm in Feb when it's 30 degrees out?

Our pool is only open in the summer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's flip the question around....where does your 4 yr old daughter get changed when daddy takes her to swimming lessons?

She changes before at home.

And what about after the pool-- when she is wet and has to get home?

Drive home in a wet suit with a towel. A little water isn't going to hurt the leather seats.

That's fine in July. What do you do at 6pm in Feb when it's 30 degrees out?

My son swims at our Rec Center in the evening all winter long. He never changes there. He gets out, towels off, puts on some fuzzy pants and a hoodie and were out the door. None of the year-round kid swimmers shower or change at the pool.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's flip the question around....where does your 4 yr old daughter get changed when daddy takes her to swimming lessons?

She changes before at home.

And what about after the pool-- when she is wet and has to get home?

Drive home in a wet suit with a towel. A little water isn't going to hurt the leather seats.

That's fine in July. What do you do at 6pm in Feb when it's 30 degrees out?

My son swims at our Rec Center in the evening all winter long. He never changes there. He gets out, towels off, puts on some fuzzy pants and a hoodie and were out the door. None of the year-round kid swimmers shower or change at the pool.

I'm sitting at a swim meet now and I love this idea. The locker rooms are just disgusting. Why are there always hair balls on the floor???

So you kid just leaves their towel dried suit on and throws clothes on over top? My kids don't shower at the pool but I never thought about throwing the fuzzy clothes on top of the damp suit. I've always had them take the damp suit off.

[Anonymous]

YMCA has a policy of no opposite sex children allowed after age 6. My child has fine and gross motor issues and we practiced for a whole year so he can go into the men's room by himself at age 7. He just couldn't do it before that. As it is, he doesn't have enough strength to open the doors to the locker room. I have to open it to allow him to get out.

[Anonymous]

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

ITA about this. Why not just towel off, get a warm coverup and go home?

[Anonymous]

4yo DS could NOT stop staring at the girls getting changed after swimming this morning. It was extremely embarrassing. We're using the family changing room from now on, even if we have to wait in line.

[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.

Wilson has family changing rooms. Why not use those? Also, I think anyone over 3 yo cannot be in the opposite sex locker room.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Wilson has family changing rooms. Why not use those? Also, I think anyone over 3 yo cannot be in the opposite sex locker room.

Because I am his aunt, not his mother, and he is eight.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Wilson has family changing rooms. Why not use those? Also, I think anyone over 3 yo cannot be in the opposite sex locker room.

Insane.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Wilson has family changing rooms. Why not use those? Also, I think anyone over 3 yo cannot be in the opposite sex locker room.

Because I am his aunt, not his mother, and he is eight.

So what? You can walk in together, and there are private rooms where he can change while you wait outside. It's a great setup.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:YMCA has a policy of no opposite sex children allowed after age 6. My child has fine and gross motor issues and we practiced for a whole year so he can go into the men's room by himself at age 7. He just couldn't do it before that. As it is, he doesn't have enough strength to open the doors to the locker room. I have to open it to allow him to get out.

That's just too old if you let him go through the girls' room up to 7. I know it is a huge pain, but I either don't have my son shower or change at the pool, or we change and not shower (and hold a towel up), or we wait in line forever for the family room. I cannot stand seeing boys who are over 5 in the girls' room...and I know what a huge pain it is to have a younger son. You could meet your son at the door and open it for him if you had to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:YMCA has a policy of no opposite sex children allowed after age 6. My child has fine and gross motor issues and we practiced for a whole year so he can go into the men's room by himself at age 7. He just couldn't do it before that. As it is, he doesn't have enough strength to open the doors to the locker room. I have to open it to allow him to get out.

That's just too old if you let him go through the girls' room up to 7. I know it is a huge pain, but I either don't have my son shower or change at the pool, or we change and not shower (and hold a towel up), or we wait in line forever for the family room. I cannot stand seeing boys who are over 5 in the girls' room...and I know what a huge pain it is to have a younger son. You could meet your son at the door and open it for him if you had to.

He would only change in girls locker room if it was cold and he could not ride home in a wet bathing suit. He never showers in the locker room and comes dressed in bathing suit from home. If he had to travel in the locker room, he was required to look a the floor all the way thru. There is one family changing room which is really just a bathroom. And the Y has probably 3-4 classes going on at one time, so you can see there is a need for more family changing rooms, just no where to put them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:YMCA has a policy of no opposite sex children allowed after age 6. My child has fine and gross motor issues and we practiced for a whole year so he can go into the men's room by himself at age 7. He just couldn't do it before that. As it is, he doesn't have enough strength to open the doors to the locker room. I have to open it to allow him to get out.

That's just too old if you let him go through the girls' room up to 7. I know it is a huge pain, but I either don't have my son shower or change at the pool, or we change and not shower (and hold a towel up), or we wait in line forever for the family room. I cannot stand seeing boys who are over 5 in the girls' room...and I know what a huge pain it is to have a younger son. You could meet your son at the door and open it for him if you had to.

He would only change in girls locker room if it was cold and he could not ride home in a wet bathing suit. He never showers in the locker room and comes dressed in bathing suit from home. If he had to travel in the locker room, he was required to look a the floor all the way thru. There is one family changing room which is really just a bathroom. And the Y has probably 3-4 classes going on at one time, so you can see there is a need for more family changing rooms, just no where to put them.

7 is too old to be in the opposite sex locker room--period!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:YMCA has a policy of no opposite sex children allowed after age 6. My child has fine and gross motor issues and we practiced for a whole year so he can go into the men's room by himself at age 7. He just couldn't do it before that. As it is, he doesn't have enough strength to open the doors to the locker room. I have to open it to allow him to get out.

That's just too old if you let him go through the girls' room up to 7. I know it is a huge pain, but I either don't have my son shower or change at the pool, or we change and not shower (and hold a towel up), or we wait in line forever for the family room. I cannot stand seeing boys who are over 5 in the girls' room...and I know what a huge pain it is to have a younger son. You could meet your son at the door and open it for him if you had to.

He would only change in girls locker room if it was cold and he could not ride home in a wet bathing suit. He never showers in the locker room and comes dressed in bathing suit from home. If he had to travel in the locker room, he was required to look a the floor all the way thru. There is one family changing room which is really just a bathroom. And the Y has probably 3-4 classes going on at one time, so you can see there is a need for more family changing rooms, just no where to put them.

We don't live in the Arctic! So he gets cold. Have him towel his hair and wrap up warmly, run out to the car and then you turn the heat on.