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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look, I loathe women who bring their pre-teen sons into the women's locker room to shower and change after swimming.  It drives me crazy and every time I see someone breaking that rule, I report them to the management of the rec center or pool club, etc.  That being said, if the rule of the facility is that kids up to age 6 can be in the opposite sex locker room, then that is what the rule is.  If I said my usual, "This is the women's locker room.  Why don't you take your son to the family changing room?" and you told me he was 5, I would apologize to you and wish you and your son a happy new year.  I follow the rules too.[/quote]

I have never even once seen someone bring a pre-teen boy into the ladies locker room.  Unless you consider 6 year olds to be "pre-teens".[/quote]

I have and more times than I care to count.  My daughter was in a year round swimming program for a couple years when she was in early elementary school.  There were several middle school and high school swim teams who practiced at the same time and several mothers of middle schoolers would bring younger kids to the pool to swim during practice and then herd their younger kids and middle school aged kids into the women's locker room to get everyone showered and changed.  I understand the impulse, but my daughter did not want to change clothes in front of the obviously pre-teen boys in the locker room.  The posted rule said kids 6 and over are to use their gender's locker room.  So I complained to management every week until finally it stopped.   [/quote]

We've done our fair share of swim team/swimming programs, too, and no middle school boy that I have ever seen would allow himself to be herded into a ladies room like that by his MOTHER.  Heck, most 5 year old boys object to being dragged into the ladies room.  Your pool sounds very different.[/quote]

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