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My kids started year round swimming at 5.  That meant I waited for a family changing room if we were at a pool that had one or I held a towel up and changed them in a quietish corner or I threw a robe on them and drove them home if it was warm.  I'm not a free range parent but [b]I'm also not going to intrude on someone else's privacy[/b].  I would sometimes also use a women's restroom that wasn't a changing room to get them changed.  Have I been boiling hot at a pool trying to hold up a towel and change my kid with sweat pouring off of me because I am not intruding on others and have a 5.5/6 year old.  Yes.  Is it miserable for a FEW MINUTES for me?  Yes, but big deal.  Knowing I have kids of different sexes, I knew I wouldn't want my kids uncomfortable with someone in the locker room of their designated sex. [b] If I see you in the locker room with a kid who clearly doesn't belong there, I'm saying something to you. [/b] [/quote]

It is a public locker room, "privacy" is rather relative here.

And just because you want to martyr yourself doesn't mean that others need to.  A lot of pools allow kids of the opposite gender to accompany their parents into the locker room up through a certain age, 5 or 6 seems common.

I mean really can't you understand that what works for your family may not work for others for a variety of reasons - there could be lots of reasons people may not want to change their children poolside.  The first too that come to mend are:
- parent also needs to change out of swimwear
- kid also needs to use the bathroom
And then I start to think of special needs many of which are not always obvious.

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