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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).  [b]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?[/b][/quote]

What this mainly shows, in my opinion, is that middle-class US society's opinion on the necessity of close supervision of five-year-olds at all times is absurd.[/quote]

While I do agree, on the whole, I do not agree that a 5 year old should be unsupervised in a locker room.  However, I was pointing out the hypocrisy of the prudes here who are likely also the same people who freak out to see a child walking 15 feet in front of his parents.[/quote]

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