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Anonymous wrote: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.

I don’t even see how this is possible. Unless your definition of “public restroom” is very different than mine or your son never went anywhere without your husband.

It is possible because you can very easily find "single person" restrooms where the door locks.

My own cut off was 3. I simply used the family bathroom or the kids would throw on a shirt and wear the swimsuits to the car then change when we got home.

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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.

My son has no interest in your body and why are you naked in public around any child - boy or girl? Cover up.

A locker room isn’t public and you can be naked in there. It’s the blessing and curse of a locker room.

I still say 8 or so. Americans are so prudish. When I taught FIFTH GRADE in England, all the kids changed for swim class in the same room. They just stripped down and put on their suits. No one cared.

That is definitely too old. Even 30 years ago when I was in 5th grade, girls had breast buds and some had their periods. If you are old enough to take a sex ed class (which in my school was held in 4th and 5th grade), you are too old to be in an opposite sex locker room or change in front of the other sex.

The gym where DS does swim lessons says children 4 and up must be in the same-sex locker room or else use one of two family changing rooms. That sounds right to me. (Kids are 5 and 2 -- the 5 year old would definitely be looking around, 2 year old not so much.)

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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.

My son has no interest in your body and why are you naked in public around any child - boy or girl? Cover up.

It’s a locker room. Specifically set up to change clothes. Which by definition means becoming naked at some point. Have your snowflake stand outside the entrance, psycho helicopter mom.

Nah, he’ll be with me.

Both pools we frequent have signs on the door saying people 6 and up need to use the assigned changing room or the family changing room. The family rooms don't have showers so that does make it inconvenient.

My 6 yo girl is suddenly sensitive about other girls seeing her in the pool showers, so age 6 seems right based on that.

Anonymous wrote: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.

I don’t even see how this is possible. Unless your definition of “public restroom” is very different than mine or your son never went anywhere without your husband.

5 years old. Most public places I've been have notices that 6&older not allowed. If they don't have a family room, then just pull on sweatpants over their wet suit and wait to shower and change at home. Personally, I think that's just easier anyway. And yes, you send you kid to walk through the correct gender locker room and just meet them on the other side.

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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.

My son has no interest in your body and why are you naked in public around any child - boy or girl? Cover up.

It’s a locker room. Specifically set up to change clothes. Which by definition means becoming naked at some point. Have your snowflake stand outside the entrance, psycho helicopter mom.

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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.

My son has no interest in your body and why are you naked in public around any child - boy or girl? Cover up.

+1 children are not leering at old ladies. Geez.

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Eight is far too old; that's inappropriate.

Anonymous wrote: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.

How did he go to the bathroom at the pool then?

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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.

My son has no interest in your body and why are you naked in public around any child - boy or girl? Cover up.

A locker room isn’t public and you can be naked in there. It’s the blessing and curse of a locker room.

I still say 8 or so. Americans are so prudish. When I taught FIFTH GRADE in England, all the kids changed for swim class in the same room. They just stripped down and put on their suits. No one cared.

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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.

My son has no interest in your body and why are you naked in public around any child - boy or girl? Cover up.

+1 children are not leering at old ladies. Geez.

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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.

My son has no interest in your body and why are you naked in public around any child - boy or girl? Cover up.