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So, what's the problem with toweling off poolside and then throwing on sweats over the suit, like many PPs have suggested?[/quote]

I'm a mom with a daughter.  On the advice of DCUM, I tried this with my DD one day.  She was miserable on the ride home.  Her wet suit soaked through her sweatpants.  We put a towel down over the car seat and the car seat still got wet--through the sweat and the towel.  Add to that that she had to walk to the car in a wet suit and then get into a 32 degree car, it was terrible.

I would not recommend this solution for a mom with boys.  And yes, I have a 4.5 yr boy.  I am going to be facing this challenge very soon as our pool does not have a family dressing room.  I'm not sure what I'm going to do if he is unable to manage to get his wet suit off his body, towel off, get his dry clothes out of his backpack, put them on, put his wet clothes into his backpack and come out an meet me outside the mens locker room.  At 4.5, he is not able to accomplish these things on his own.  Maybe in 6 months, he will be able to--who knows.

For the summer, I don't see an issue with going home in a wet suit.  It's the winter swimming where it really becomes an issue.[/quote]

Thank you PP for a clear explanation.  And as the mom of a 5 year old I'm pretty sure that you won't be comfortable with letting him go in to the men's on his own in six months time.  At our local pool it's often full of poorly behaved teenage boys who I really don't want to be around my child with no adults present (nothing too untoward but the swearing and horseplay and intimidation is not appropriate for my 5 year old unsupervised).  Also, in any other circumstance it seems to be widely accepted that you don't leave your 5 year old unsupervised.  You don't leave them in the car while you get gas, you don't send them into the restroom on their own, you don't let them go into a store without you, you don't leave them at the playground while you tend to a younger sibling a few hundred feet away, why would it suddenly then be ok to send them into the locker room on their own?[/quote]

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