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Anonymous wrote:8 or so. Not a chance I'd let my little one in a locker room alone. I rarely let my older elementary school child in one alone. They are selfish parents to send their kids in a public restroom alone.

Other people are selfish for respecting everyone’s privacy? An 8 year old is NOT a little one and have no business being in an opposite gender locker room.

Mom's call, not yours.

It absolutely is my call of I’m naked in a locker room and getting leered at by your 8 year old son.

I wouldn't send my son into a pool changing room or public restroom by himself until he was in high school. This involved some inconvenience for him and me, but so be it. Didn't take him into the women's locker room or restroom after age 5.

My pool doesn't have a family locker room. There is a male/female, but they have curtained stalls for changing. I bring my 6 year old DS into the women's room and we change in a curtained stall.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:8 or so. Not a chance I'd let my little one in a locker room alone. I rarely let my older elementary school child in one alone. They are selfish parents to send their kids in a public restroom alone.

Other people are selfish for respecting everyone’s privacy? An 8 year old is NOT a little one and have no business being in an opposite gender locker room.

Mom's call, not yours.

Correct, so its the mom's call to bring her son into the locker room.

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Anonymous wrote:8 or so. Not a chance I'd let my little one in a locker room alone. I rarely let my older elementary school child in one alone. They are selfish parents to send their kids in a public restroom alone.

Other people are selfish for respecting everyone’s privacy? An 8 year old is NOT a little one and have no business being in an opposite gender locker room.

Then what is the other option? You don't send a little one into a locker room alone. Too much risk for bad things to happen. You do not have to fully expose yourself or your kids and if you are that concerned change in a stall like we do.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:8 or so. Not a chance I'd let my little one in a locker room alone. I rarely let my older elementary school child in one alone. They are selfish parents to send their kids in a public restroom alone.

Other people are selfish for respecting everyone’s privacy? An 8 year old is NOT a little one and have no business being in an opposite gender locker room.

Mom's call, not yours.

Agree with around 8 or so

All pools have family locker rooms. 

Not true.

Anonymous wrote:8 or so. Not a chance I'd let my little one in a locker room alone. I rarely let my older elementary school child in one alone. They are selfish parents to send their kids in a public restroom alone.

Other people are selfish for respecting everyone’s privacy? An 8 year old is NOT a little one and have no business being in an opposite gender locker room.

Until they are comfortable going in the locker room by themselves. My son is 9 and he’s been cool going to the locker room for about a year. He’s pretty clueless/ambivalent about bodies and looks young for his age. Never been a problem.

My DD is 5 and she still goes in with my DH when he takers her swimming. She’s the one who can make embarrassing comments about nakedness...but I also see her getting comfortable with locker rooms sooner than DS...in probably a year.

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Is there a family locker room you can use? Our YMCA has an awesome family locker room with individual changing rooms and still moms insist on bringing their boys in the women's changing rooms.

8 or so. Not a chance I'd let my little one in a locker room alone. I rarely let my older elementary school child in one alone. They are selfish parents to send their kids in a public restroom alone.

All pools have family locker rooms. Your son is at an age where you just have to wait for a family locker room. I have a 7 year old DS and 4 year old DS and 7 month old DD. It sucks waiting for a family locker room when I know I can just rush in the women locker room twice as fast but I also know its the most respectful thing to do. Now in other places where there is no family restroom I don't hesitate. Like Macys yesterday I had to bring everyone in. But Target, grocery stores, pools, our JCC, etc etc are all hoping on board to family restrooms so when there is that option I always pick it.

Last night at the pool locker room, a little girl aged somewhere between 6-8ish starters asking her mom a bunch of questions about why my DS age 4.5 was in the women’s locker room. Today, a mom of a different, similar aged child said “let’s change your clothes in the car, I’m not having you change in front of boys. I told her my son was 4 and wouldn’t care, and she said she wasn’t talking about us-there was an older boy in another area, which there was. A parent had brought in her three year old boy as well as her older brother he goes to school with my child so I know his age) who I would guess is 6-7. What’s the cutoff for this sort of thing?