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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You all are weird. Nudity is not inherently sexual. For all the finger pointing about pedos you people sure do sexualize young girls a lot yourselves. [/quote]

I am probably the most liberal mom there is.  One of my age 14 DD's fave movie is Kill Bill.  I'm pretty sure what I let her get away with, most would not.  Even I think that OP's family tradition of naked age 6+ years kids together is psycho weird.

No - nudity is not inherently sexual but in the US, for little kids to be doing it, it's the kids that will be called out on it as a laughing stock.  They will be mocked to high heaven and culturally, we do not live in the South of France where nudist beaches are an option for adults.

These are kids in crucial stages of their lives where they need to learn privacy.  This does not mean being naked is bad or shameful.  This does mean that there exists boundaries of what can happen in public settings.

This also has to do with a kid feeling comfortable with themselves and at age 9, a girl is definitely old enough to realize that boys and girls have different bodies and why that is - totally inappropriate to set these kids up to smooth that over.  Yes, to talk about differences is to make differences and at these ages, that should be an important consideration.  What they choose to do at age 18 or 21 - that's a completely separate conversation but at age 6 or 9 - that's a parental responsibility to allow them privacy over their own bodies.  This is not a personality thing, a cultural thing even at this age.  It's not a family decision of having manners or not.  It's about psychological abuse actually.  Running around naked past age 5 even with family is what people who have zero education and class do.

OP - I'll ask you back - when do you consider it too old to do?  Age 12 when DD gets her period??   [/quote]

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