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[quote=Anonymous]How embarrassing that this thread is still going. Seriously... I think OP was a troll (congrats!). Snowday is over. Don't we have anything better to do?

The last reply to one of my posts (simply saying that my 5 year old, who is in bounds for the rules of OUR pool) will continue to be changed in the ladies locker room) is that someone is going to intimidate my kids intentionally so that they won't want to use the pool anymore. I mean, really. So to these prudes, a five year old in an opposite gender lockerroom is "wrong," but scaring and intimidating children by an adult woman is not just "okay" but something she plans to do.

Consider the source of criticism, here, parents. This is a tempest in a teapot. There are a few weird pearl clutchers. Let them complain all they want here! They won't say it to your face. At best, you'll get some weird complaint on the listserv if it's a member pool, or you'll hear from management (and in that case you'll need to resolve the issue somehow).

Our pool bans changing poolside, but also bans kids 6+. My 5 year old still comes with me into the ladies room. He'll turn 6 this summer, and I'm not sure what we'll do. No family room. In our case, the restroom is also inside the locker rooms. One of the biggest issues I have is that there are a group of unsupervised teenagers who have had lots of close calls with little kids at our pool (they don't intentionally hurt them, but they run them over) several times, and that issue is not something that's easy to address - a pool is for everyone and the kids get all fired up and run around, and they're told to stop, and they do, but they're children, and it does happen sometimes. Or it's handled, but percolates up again. If these teens weren't a problem, I would be less concerned about my kid. The funny thing is, the parents of these teens are the same ones who complain about their delicate girls not being able to be in the locker room. We had an issue with some of the girls pointing and screaming at a 3 year old child, saying "he's looking at your boobies, Larla!" to another girl. I"d argue that the boy, rather than the girl, was probably the one being harmed there with that nonsense. Some of you moms of tween and teen girls need to be aware that your children are drama queens. I say that with no judgment because I was a tween / teen myself once. And some of you are parents of older boys, maybe you started letting them go to the restroom at 4 or 5 by themselves, and maybe that's why they do not know how to behave themselves when they are there. The irony is these people sometimes think the rest of us "helicopter" too much. It's often the troublemakers that have the biggest issue with everyone else.

Anyway, OP, just do what you need to do. Follow the rules, and if they no longer work for you, try to change them or find another pool. And pay no mind to the biddies or their high strung daughter. The hormones should level out for at least the daughters sometime soon!   [/quote]

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