children in communal changing rooms

gravitytolls

I think it's a dang good idea for lads to be in the communal changing room....too young to be scarred for life by the sight of saggy bits, wrinkled bits and stretch marked bits, but old enough to remember when they hit puberty and look at photo shopped, voluptuous models that they don't stay like that forever!

Like Person One's Ma, I'm often to be found with the loo door open ~ mind, I still have littllies popping in for a chat, but up to age 16 they're not fazed by seeing me having a pee....cos there's nowt to see, you see.

With the exception of bad weather, me twits are generally flapping about in bed, me arsicle is none too pretty, but no one's bothered by it.

I think we should all have less hang ups about our bodies and the wholly unrealistic idea of what they should look like.

With regard to the changing rooms, it's the younger ones that are likely to stare and make inapprorpriate comments ~ loudly.

MrsE_2

poet123 wrote: »

I was not talking about changing....that can be done discreetly.

I know - but I thought the post I answered was.

I'm amazed at the lack of boundaries people have around stripping off in front of the opposite sex on here!

mortgagenomore_2

My gym is the same note on door is boys over 8 not allowed and i suspect some older but i just walk about naked going about my business dressing etc as i would usually without covering with towel and 9 times out of 10 the kids are ushered by their mother into the private cubicles, kids are never really paying much attention but i do make a point that they can please themselves but im not covering up because they have taken their kids in, its the mothers that are looking in a way that i should be more discreet because she has young boys but nope its all hanging out boys or no boys :rotfl:

poet123

MrsE wrote: »

I know - but I thought the post I answered was.

I'm amazed at the lack of boundaries people have around stripping off in front of the opposite sex on here!

I certainly never had the need to use the loo in front of my sons....I have been in a toilet cubicle with my mother but that doesn't seem the same to me.

MrsE_2

mortgagenomore wrote: »

My gym is the same note on door is boys over 8 not allowed and i suspect some older but i just walk about naked going about my business dressing etc as i would usually without covering with towel and 9 times out of 10 the kids are ushered by their mother into the private cubicles, kids are never really paying much attention but i do make a point that they can please themselves but im not covering up because they have taken their kids in, its the mothers that are looking in a way that i should be more discreet because she has young boys but nope its all hanging out boys or no boys :rotfl:

I refuse to feel like I should change under a towel poncho because of school boys in the changing rooms.

I'm amazed that it seems to be 8 & even 10 is considered the normal age to stop boys going in the female & girls going in the males.

Dunroamin

MrsE wrote: »

I know - but I thought the post I answered was.

I'm amazed at the lack of boundaries people have around stripping off in front of the opposite sex on here!

I have no problem stripping off in public ( I went into the sea in France last year wearing only a dog and a lead) but a communal changing room is a rather intimate setting and anyway, I believe very strongly that female only environments need protecting.

poet123

Dunroamin wrote: »

I have no problem stripping off in public ( I went into the sea in France last year wearing only a dog and a leanyway, a believe very strongly that female only environments need protecting.

??????????:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Can you explain:rotfl:

Dunroamin

poet123 wrote: »

??????????:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Can you explain:rotfl:

Apologies, the curse of the tablet strikes again! Does my correction make any more sense now?

Pixiechic

I just don't think that's its appropriate for all concerned really. I'm not a prude but that doesn't mean that its okay to have 8 and 10 year old boys hanging around in the ladies changing room. It's not the same environment as a beach where you could move elsewhere.

I couldn't help but laugh at the towel sewing up solution. I can just imagine rows of women in these sort of makeshift towelled ponchos, shuffling about with bras and knickers :rotfl:. It was a solution though, not criticising it!

I think that the OP is using the facilities in a considerate way and has every reason to expect that others do the same and that the rules are upheld. The woman with children should use the family cubicle. It is quite selfish that she isn't.

Ruby_woo

I haven't commented on this one as my son is 17 now so don't have this particular worry anymore lol, just other bigger worries..

Anyway my take on this is the following:

Tomorow mark bridger is in the crown court for his part in the alleged murder of April jones who went missing when she was 5 last October. If by having younger children in the changing rooms with their parents saves just one child from possibly being abducted then its fine by me. We never ever know who are lurking around in public places and swimming pools are perfect places for strange folk.... I understand that people will say it will never happen, but it does occasionally. Thank god it is only occasionally.

To be fair I'm very laid back about nudity and I understand not everyone is.

My 17 yr old son still walks into the bathroom when I'm in there and it doesn't bother me.

I do however totally get the worry over the mobile phone camera thing.

Ruby