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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure if anyone is still reading or if this was said, but why aren't pool locker rooms designed to be more family friendly?  Why do they design them so that you have to walk through the locker room to get to the bathrooms.  It would seem easy enough to design them so that the changing area  / shower area could be separated enough so that the younger children of the opposite gender could come in to use the bathrooms and not see anything in the changing area.  This would be way easier to manage than the "family changing rooms" that are often non existent and when they are, there is one that is often occupied for 20 minutes at a time.

To the OP, my son is turning 6, and also struggled with a wet suit last year and the beginnnig of this season, but is finally getting the hang of it, so your son will probably figure it out in a few months.  I do now make him go to the mens' locker room alone (I had my DH with us the first time to make sure he could reach everything).  He was scared at first, but now has gotten used to it, although I get freaked out if he takes too long, and he gets freaked out if he beats me out.  I also talk to him about what he would do if anyone asks or tries to touch his private parts (say no, and then run, scream, hit, kick or bite).   I think it works, because last year at his well visit, he actually spoke up and questioned if what the doctor was doing was OK.  And I'm always eyeing up who I could send in to look for him. [/quote]

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