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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Suprised at the number of people concerned about 4-5-6-7 year olds boys in the locker room.  I know when I change I do so quickly and discretely.  Also I try not to look at others while they are changing.  I teach my children to do the same in public lockers.  Not sure what the big problem is. [/quote]

I've been a locker room where the 5-6-7 year old stood around and stared at the naked old ladies. It wasn't sexual, just obnoxious and rude. The ladies' locker room is for ladies to change. I shouldn't have to hunt down a bathroom stall to change because OP is too privileged to wait for the family locker room or change her kid in the handicapped stall in the women's room.

I have, in fact, said something to mothers who bring their big boys into the ladies' room.  I am polite, but firm, and tell them that the rules of the pool are that boys over the age of 3 are too big to be in the ladies' locker room and that they should use the family locker rooms.  I also tell them that their children are making other people uncomfortable.   I've had a few people yell back at me, but I promise you that their embarrassment (breaking rules, rude kid, now Mom is acting rudely, too)  was a lot greater than my discomfort over their rudeness. [/quote]

If you are uncomfortable, you go in the stall.  A handicapped stall is just that.  It is for handicapped.  It is not your personal dressing room.  I only used them with a child in a stroller or otherwise you squeeze into a regular stall.  You would not park in a handicapped spot, so why would you use a stall.  If those women are not comfortable, then they need to be more discrete.  You are not the changing room police.  My three year old was nonverbal and could not change himself.  He would not have even understood me telling him to walk through, let alone change.  He could not even tell you his name if he had a problem.  Really, you think it is safe and appropiate?

Where are all these family locker rooms you talk about?   I have yet to see one at the county pool we go to.  You are not getting not everyone belongs to a country club or pool and some of us make due with the options available to us.

I would never be embarrased to tell you to mind your own business or I am getting staff based off of your harassment.

You are the one who belongs in the stall if you want privacy.  Really, no one wants to look at your sagging breasts, belly and wrinkly body. [/quote]

You have the handicapped kid. You should use the stall or a changing poncho on the deck. If you can't abide by the rules, then you should keep your snowflake home or find a facility that can meet your special needs. Being SN doesn't mean that your needs trumps everyone else's rights or societal norms. [/quote]

My chikd is not handicapped,meh has some developmental delays.  But, regardless, I do not neglect my child and let him be unsupervised.   This has less to do with special needs than it does with common sense.  No one wants to look at your body so you need the stall or poncho.  I am not putting some dumb overpriced poncho to cover my child to change him in public.  You do not change kids in public regardless of how cleaver you think you are being.  If there are stalls,muse them and stop complaining.  There has never been a pool we have been to that anyone has cared as they have kids too. [/quote]

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