[sandy_1985]

Don’t worry this isn’t a thread about a gripe about opposite sex kids in changed rooms. I just want some opinions on the following scenario.

I was in the change rooms today at the local pool. After my swim I go to get changed for my run home, and in the change room is a mum and her about 6-7ish y.o. boy. Now I’m not too concerned about removing clothes, drying myself and then getting dressed in public change rooms (and won’t consider the change cubicles as they are gross).

My dilemma is what is appropriate; should you wait for the young boy to leave to get changed or just get changed anyway and they can just deal with it. What do you think?

For the record, I did wait for them to leave...dam kid felt like he took ages to get changed. The change room was just about empty. Apart for the mum and boy, there was another lady changing her baby.

[Lucretia Borgia]

I would just get changed...I don't think it's an issue, I think most of us know how to get changed with fairly minimal amounts of exposure, you know, towel around your trunk while you take your wet swimmers off, undies on...that type of thing, it's not like you would stand there talking to the young lad in full frontal nudity....

This post has been edited by Lucretia Borgia: 03/02/2013, 08:21 PM

[elizabethany]

I would have just gotten changed. If mum didn't want him to see it, she should have put him into one of the change cubicles.

[BeYOUtiful]

I always get changed with my towel wrapped around me, so would have done the same.
I always envy others that can just get on with it (without a towel), would be so much easier.

[CurlyTops]

My DS is around that age and doesn't really care about bodies just yet. Clothes, naked, he doesn't give a toss and wouldn't care if he was in the ladies change and there were naked ladies around. I'd be more worried he'd make a comment.

[New Horizons]

Just do what you need. Kids seem oblivious at that age, or if they notice, they think nothing of it. 10+ I would wait.

Moving on, can you aproach someone about the cubicles? Something needs to be done, not everyone is comfortable changing.

[GoneWithTheWhing...]

I'd have just carried on. I usually change behind a towel but know of many women who happily strip and then body lotion up before dressing so there is often a fair bit of flesh on show where I go.

If the boys mum had an issue with him seeing the nude female body then that is for her to deal with. There is no shame in nakedness and as children are naturally curious it would be expected that he would look.

[Holidayromp]

This is a tough one because I don't think school aged boys should be allowed in the woman's change room. But then there is going to be every excuse in the book to as why they should be there.

I once changed with a 9yo boy (guestimate of age) in the woman's change room despite the fact there were separate family change cubicles. There were no cubicle to change in and quite frankly that is far too old to have in an opposite sex change room. I complained and apparently I wasn't the only one because soon after that a sign was erected cutting boys of school age from the woman's change room.

[kreme]

My son is 5 and at our local pool we have lots of women who are comfortable standing around naked. Recently someone applied moisturiser to her entire body while naked in the middle of an extremely crowded change room. I figure if I don't make a big deal of it, then DS won't either.
If I take him into the female change room I would never expect anyone to change their behaviour to accommodate him. People are there to get changed and that's what they should do

[sandy_1985]

Ahhh, Thanks for the replies.
Glad to hear I'm over thinking it!