Naked toddler in swimming pool showers

[Noodella18]

I take my 2 year old swimming on Fridays. After the session we take a shower in the communal showers, next to the lockers and by the entrance to the pool. I didn't think twice about stripping off her swimming costume to wash her but the lifeguard told me today that she wasn't allowed to be nude 'because it's a public area' and she had to keep it on. Am I being naive in thinking that a naked two year old is really no big deal?

Yanbu - no harm in a naked 2 year old
Yabu - keep the cossie on

I voted YABU - but only because you don’t know whether or not there’s a pedophile about. They unfortunately don’t come with a sign attached.

If it's mixed shower at poolside, YABU. If it's the showers in the women's changing room, YANBU

It’s the perverts that are the problem, not a little girl. The rules are unreasonable.

The rules are there to protect the girl from the perverts. As they should.

YANBU I did the same when mine were very small. My youngest is 5 and last week needed a wee before we got changed so I took him and then quickly went back to the cubicle nude, nobody batted an eyelid.

@lovescaca

I wouldnt have my toddler naked, there are too many creeps in the world

I agree. It’s very sad but I keep him covered up in public, you just never know do you.

I would be concerned about someone filming or taking photos of my child.

No, I agree with their policy. Paedophiles exist. Not only that, it puts people in the position of being wrongly accused of looking if they happen to so much as glance over. I wouldn't want strangers looking at my children naked either.

@BrendaBubbles you do realise there’s such a thing as female pedophiles right?

I hate seeing naked toddlers, I am always worried they are going to poo near me. This is because it has happened to me a lot,with my child and other people's children.

No, I agree with their policy. Paedophiles exist. Not only that, it puts people in the position of being wrongly accused of looking if they happen to so much as glance over. I wouldn't want strangers looking at my children naked either.

^I feel this way too. I don’t like seeing toddlers running around naked, either at the swimming pool or the beach.

I didn't say it's amazing, we are just all different and all free to parent differently I patent my children my way and you do your way, no right not wrong just different, my children are more comfortable running around in the garden on a hot day in no clothes and to try and get them to put anything on would lead to tantrums and distress which neither of us needed.

[quote LoislovesStewie]@Hmmmm2018 ; so you would be happy with photos of your naked child going all round certain vile websites then for ever and ever, with the knowledge that grown men are masturbating while looking at them?[/quote]
Of course nobody would be happy at that and I never said that I would.

Sorry?! What?! I take my clothes off to shower too… yep, I’m the woman in the changing room naked… I can’t be doing the stupid changing under a towel thing, life is too short. And everyone had near enough the same bits.

@PurBal

Sorry?! What?! I take my clothes off to shower too… yep, I’m the woman in the changing room naked… I can’t be doing the stupid changing under a towel thing, life is too short. And everyone had near enough the same bits.

To be fair though nobody wants to see other people wandering around naked

'Sorry?! What?! I take my clothes off to shower too… yep, I’m the woman in the changing room naked… I can’t be doing the stupid changing under a towel thing'

Not pool side though I would hope. Which is the point of the thread. Naked showering in cubicles is of course normal and fine.

@Shelovesamystery

The beach has been mentioned a few times on here and I have to say I've never really understood this obsession with letting small children be naked on the beach

I've managed to take my dc's to the beach many times without ever letting them run around naked. If they need a change of clothes then I wrap a towel around them for privacy. There is never any need to let your dc's be naked in public. You have no idea who could be staring at them, taking pictures of them etc and what awful things are going on inside that persons head. It's just not worth the risk.

This.

@RickJames

Not unreasonable but sadly there are some dreadful people about that might enjoy seeing naked little ones. I can see the lifeguard's point - he's just trying to keep everyone safe and follow the pools policy.

I think this is it. There's nothing wrong with a 2 year old being naked but you don't want some sick weirdo getting a thrill out of it. So yes keep the costume on.

@FuckingFlumps

Ridiculous. What a stupid rule. There are many public areas where I don't think it's appropriate for a 2 year old to be naked a swimming pool is certainly not one of them.

I remember at primary school we used to tuck our dresses (no trousers then) into our knickers to do handstands and play leap frog.

Cynical is spelt with a 'c'.

But yes, sorry OP, make your kid cover up. Communal changing rooms or showers aren't places to be naked. Sorry. It's for your child's protection. And the sooner your child learns that then the sooner the better

You keep the kid clothed for their protection. So I voted yabu. If you want to shower her naked just take her to a cubicle

@Ozanj

You’re being unreasonable. The rules are the rules. If you don’t like it then go to another pool

Just because it's a rule doesn't make it automatically reasonable. You can still question it whilst following it.

@YouWouldNotBelieve

Part of your responsibility as a parent to a child is to keep them safe, and it's questionable that you thought it was acceptable to remove her clothes in a public space when there is the potential for pedophiles to be watching, then question a rule put in place that's against this and since the event for it to not have occured to you that the rule was there for a reason. It's not a chance you should ever take to make your child vulnerable publicly. Pedophiles are likely to pick up on your lack of capacity and could target you and your child. This is one of the most ridiculous posts I have seen written by an adult

Don't be so bloody ridiculous. And unnecessarily snotty.

Well this thread is depressing. There have always been perverts about and children have always run around naked. I don't think the parents and children are the ones that should have to change their behaviour personally. And I also don't want to live my life constantly on guard because their might be a pervert watching.

@Idontlike

It really is no big deal to the majority of people.

It’s a huge, and thrilling, ordeal for anyone in the area who happens to be a attracted to children unfortunately.

I got this far because something like this happened when I innocently showered my DD of no more than 2 years old in the communal showers next to the pool.

A middle aged man LEAPT out of the pool as soon as I stripped off my DD under the shower and crammed himself into the shower right next to us and hogged the space in a really discomforting way. I've felt like a shit parent over it ever since, assumed I did something wrong showering here there and have done ever since.

The responses so far have shown me that others might have felt like I did so I feel less bad about it now but it was horrible. I can't explain exactly why,, jjust so skin crawlingly obvious that he had leapt in to get really close to us.

I was quite blah! About this untilI lost a naked two year old in the changing rooms at Center Parcs. Longest two minutes of my life!