Dressing room disasters

[air914]

I can think of a good reason to take your "slightly older" child into the restroom..... b/c 5, 6, 7, 8 year old - they may be able to go into the bathroom themselves.... however, they're also known to wander off...... so if you have to go to the bathroom and your child is the opposite sex - what do you do? You don't want to leave them outside the bathroom door - someone could snatch them, they could wander off - I'd rather take my kid in the restroom w/ me (I don't have any right now but I would do this).

HOWEVER..... children of this age SHOULD be kept from looking under the stalls, crawling around on the floor, etc. Some basic "bathroom manners" should maybe be taught.

And crawling on the bathroom floor - BLECH!!!! That is so disgusting... people "miss" you know - in the GIRLS room too....

[ShortTemperHatesStupidity]

If I was in a stall, the door would have been shut and locked, and if I was at a urinal, my back would have been turned, and no one would have been able to see anything. But to bring a kid into a room where people could have been completely naked and in full view at any given time?

So it's safe to say you would have had the balls to testes in this situation?

[MadMike]

So it's safe to say you would have had the balls to testes in this situation?

Boo hiss!

Where's that salmon?

[greensinestro]

I can think of a good reason to take your "slightly older" child into the restroom..... b/c 5, 6, 7, 8 year old - they may be able to go into the bathroom themselves.... however, they're also known to wander off...... so if you have to go to the bathroom and your child is the opposite sex - what do you do? You don't want to leave them outside the bathroom door - someone could snatch them, they could wander off - I'd rather take my kid in the restroom w/ me (I don't have any right now but I would do this).

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Good point there. That's a tough one being at times, I have my daughter with me as well as my son. Thankfully, it's been using the urinal where she sees nothing. I won't go any farther than that. Most of the time, when I take the two of them, I may have one of the stepchildren with me where he or she can stand outside watching the kids, then we can take turns watching when the other is done doing their business.

[ShortTemperHatesStupidity]

Boo hiss!

Where's that salmon?

Oh sure, so when zzap says it it's funny, she's "warped" and you "think you like her", but when I get a zinger in there, it's not funny...

Boo hiss at you!

[MadMike]

Oh sure, so when zzap says it it's funny, she's "warped" and you "think you like her", but when I get a zinger in there, it's not funny...

I'm just playin' with ya. After all, we warped individuals have to stick together.

[ShortTemperHatesStupidity]

I'm just playin' with ya. After all, we warped individuals have to stick together.

I know. I was messin with you too. Methinks perhaps I should have included a "/dry sarcasm" at the end of that...

[SuperB]

A child being kidnapped from a public restroom isn't so much the concern as a child being molested in a public bathroom. My son is old enough now and takes karate but my daughter, unless we know the place, she'll be going with her dad if I'm not there.

As long as child behaves and doesn't look under the stalls (what kind of parent would even let them?) no one should have a problem with it. It is a safety thing. Anyone remember the story of the boy who was murdered in a rest stop bathroom? His mother (or grandmother) was right outside. If I've ever been uncomfortable with my kids going in alone, I did what I thought was safe and other people sensibilities meant nothing to me.

[ArenaBoy]

I swear I despise people like this. Our bathrooms at work are also our changing rooms and I swear some of these folks have the manners of pigs. I once yelled at my supervisor for banging on the door repeatedly despite the fact that the door was locked.

"But Mom! Why does that lady have a beard down there?"

I can only imagine the car ride home.

[BookstoreEscapee]

CurlyLocks, this is why I hate dressing rooms that don't have lockable doors.

[CurlyLocks]

Yeah, a curtain isn't exactly high-tech security.

[Just Ace]

Sorry but I am one of those mums that brings her 8 year old son into the change rooms with me.

I do try to use the family/wheel chair change rooms but hey, there is only one of them in the whole shop - sometimes not even one! But the big difference is that my kid knows to sit quietly and wait until I am finished - probably cause I promise him we will look at the pokemon stuff if he's good.

We recently had a little 8 year old girl get raped and murdered in the public toilets of a popular shopping centre so now I am even more anal about that! If there isn't a parent room available I will take him with me into the womens. I have even been know to pop my head into the mens to make sure that there is no other man in there before I let my son in. Over protective? Yes. I won't apologise for that. One day I will get over it but it saves me from having to kill someone who harms my kids!

[tollbaby]

I don't blame you at all, JustAce. My eight-year-old son does go into the washroom on his own if he's not with his dad, but I stand guard outside the door, and he knows to yell if ANYBODY talks to him or touches him (and if he's in there too long, I'll inch the door open and call his name to make sure he answers). My daughter goes in with me, because she's only five.

[Ciarrai]

Ugh, I hate that. I've never been yelled at by a parent for asking their child nicely not to peek under the doors, but it's still disconcerting.
I have however had a parent yell at me for getting upset when her child kept staring at me in the gym locker room. Yes, I have a tattoo and yes it looks cool, but that doesn't give your child the right to walk up right behind me and stare at me while I'm changing.

[Kitten in the box]

I had this one time this little kid poked his head under the stall to look at what I was doing...I looked at the kid and went "Yahhhhrrr" and the kid stuck his head back. he then said "That lady growled at me...Luckily to my delight the woman said 'Well...you ain't gotta be lookin' in at her. Ain't none of your business what she does."