to want mums in gym changing rooms to stop their children looking under my shower door??

[UpsyDozy]

I get enough "ha haa! Look at your boobies!" comments from my own children. Today in the gym, 2 children about 3ish kept peering under the door as I showered in the communal shower area. The mum was in another cubicle so the children (who were fully dressed and changed) were just wandering about unattended.

Was I mean to "accidentally" flick soapy water at them as I rinsed my hair?

Soapy water. A painful, yet harmless idea that may possibly act as a deterrent in future. Genius idea afaiac!
YANBU.

YANBU and dear god a bit of soapy water in the tyes never killed anyone

In the 'tyes'???

By 3ish they should really be aware that behaviour like that is unacceptable. The mother should be mortified!

ISCREAM pain OK but who should be in pain, the toddlers who don't know any better of the mum?

upsy just replying to what you have posted.

The point is Mitmoo, the soap won't do them any harm.

Hopefully the mother will suffer the pain of embarrassment.

Bibbity fortunately

Iscream BUT IT could hurt them and it's not the toddlers fault, it's the mothers.

some people are just crap at controlling their own kids! I've experienced this with older kids (about 8 or 9) running around a changing room banging on doors and looking under cubicles while their mums just carried on chatting away....

YANBU and is a 3 years old isn't a toddler!!

Absolutely flick soapy water at the little kids,..they'll be covered in it anyway if they're on the floor peering under doors.
Rofl at Mitmoo....

I love these kinds of threads!

Won't someone just think of the children?

FFS - whats all this - 'Oh they are only little kids - just playing - they might get soap in their eyes.

At the age of 3 (if they have been brought up properley) then they should know that this sort of behaviour is not acceptable.

I wouldnt have flicked water over them - they would have got a bucket full.

Actually, it is the toddler's fault. They were behaving in a way they ought to know was unacceptable.

I realise that the situation might not have arisen had the mother been rather less ineffectual but it wasn't the mother who instigated the annoying behaviour. So don't be so precious, Mitmoo, anyone would think the OP had poked their inquisitive little eyes out and skewered them onto a rusty toasting fork.

Eat beans the night before, when they stick their heads under, let 'er rip

YANBU As for soapy water getting in their eyes the chances of it actually happening are negligible.

Can I activate my deathstare yet?

It really works.

For Mitmoo

Perhaps the children had additional needs? Er...

Not too bad if they are under 5yr olds. What I can't stand are older kids who should know better (8-9yr olds) who do the same thing.
Stopped going to the local swimming pool on a certain day because of a couple of famillies with nutty out of control kids and mum's who don't notice!

spiderpig8 my 3yo is most definitely a toddler.

OP, I don't think the children would care what they saw, think it is more a game to look under a door, and to splash them with water would add to the game.
I think if it happens again pretend to be a monster and scream "rawwww I'm gonna eat you" at them. They'll soon run.

If the children can manage a bit of chlorinated water splashing in their eyes in the pool (burns my eyes like fuck) then they can manage to cope with a bit of soapy water.

Three is definitely old enough to learn that some people want privacy.