Boys using ladies loos

sedment

My ds is nearly eight and has just started going into the gents on his own. But Im the one that is hanging outside and ready to shout if he takes too long, and have told him to just use the cubicle. He knows not to speak to anyone and wash his hands, so have to give him a bit of trust and hope he is doing what I say.

Counter

I am another one who doesn't see the need to have separate toilets for men and women. As long as they are all cubicles and no urinals there is no need for separate rooms.

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

I don't mind how old males are when they're using the ladies toilets, but PLEASE ask your sons to PUT THE SEAT DOWN AFTERWARDS in the ladies.

I don't understand the mentality of leaving the seat up after using the toilet in that way. I don't leave the fridge door open once I have taken food out of it, or the light on when I leave a room etc. so why would you leave the seat up?

Janepig

My DS is 8 and I'll generally take him to the toilet with me, although he usually has a little moan about it. Doesn't bother me in the slightest if there are boys in the ladies toilet, it's all private in the cubicle, no-one can see you.

I'm generally the first person to get on my high horse about how children are at no more risk these days from "bogeymen" than they were years ago, but I think that male public toilets can be risky areas for children. Having worked in a Magistrates court for years I got to know all the places to avoid!!

Added to that is the fact that DS is fond of going off "exploring" and more often than not his requests to visit the toilet when we're out are little more than excuses to go for a mooch about without me breathing down his neck and left unsupervised he takes forever!! And obviously if DH is with us then he takes DS with him to the mens.

Jx

DigForVictory

A while back I got a RADAR key as my mother is having increasing problems walking & if a disabled loo is handy & clean (& as locked, usually less troubled by folk using it for non-loo purposes), I wanted her to have the choice.

She hit top C - Quite Well thank you - so I now have the key. It's occasionally brilliant. Space to herd in self & plural offspring where the other loos are locked or pay as you go.

As for gents of almost any age in the Ladies - as long as the courtesies (Eyes down, mouth shut) are observed, I'll share. After all, when I was great with child, I barrelled into a Gents for the relief & was utterly charmed when a voice outside the cube heard my flush & called "all clear for sinks!" then held the door for me.

System

Theres no way I'd send a child 8 or under to the mens toilets on his own but that's cause I don't know what sort of men are in the toilets.

Heck, in my local shopping centre they have male cleaning attendants and no one bats an eyelid so I don't see whats wrong with unisex toilets.

Nick_C

In Brittany, its quite common to have a single entrance to the public loos, and women walk past the urinals to get to the WCs.

It probably encourages a healthier attitude, and discourages anti social behaviour.

kingfisherblue

At Blackpool Zoo today, I had to take my son to the disabled toilet. I'm a single parent, so his dad doesn't come on days out with us. Anyway, the disabled toilet is also the baby changing room, which is fair enough. However, when you walk in, there is the baby changing table, washbasins, two urinals, and then a cubicle with the disabled toilet and wheelchair accessible washbasin inside. So you have to pass two urinals to get to the disabled toilet! Really odd.

As it happens, the door to the gents toilet wouldn't close, and as you passed when coming out of the disabled toilet/baby change, you had full view of the urinals. I did report it to a member of staff.

savingmummy

I personally have no issues with boys or even a man as in womens there are locked cubicles and I don`t need privacy washing my hands!


I take my son (6) in with me if I`m shopping without my hubby.
There are male cleaners in the ladies too and again I have no issues there!

Wilma33

I have no problem with any age boy in there with his mum as long as he isn't messing around. I also have no problem with a Dad bringing in his daughter if he isn't with a women who can take her. I wouldn't really want my daughter going in the men's.

System

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Talking of unisex toilets, I think it was in France I encountered two toilets next to each other, without any cubicles around them! :eek:

Cosy! :eek:

Sounds like the Roman loos which were basically a bench and everyone sat alongside each other.



Maybe they got chatting :rotfl: It's hard to imagine going to the toilet as a social thing!