Getting dressed in front of your children

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I just wondered what age you guys think it is still okay to get dressed in front of your children?
Now don't get me wrong when I say this, I don't exactly make a point of getting change in front of my son. But if he came in the room whilst I was getting changed I wouldn't exactly make a bug deal out of it. I would ask he left the room or didn't look, but if he was occupied in the room or whatever then I'd just quickly get dressed.
He's 5.
I was having a conversation with my sister The other day because I noticed that my niece is becoming really shy and conscious of her body. We went swimming the other day and I could just tell that she felt really uncomfortable in her swimming costume in front of others. She was trying to cover herself up with her arms. I've also now that she's started to become a bit shy. I've always been a shy person, so I feel like I could see the signs in my neice. Anyway I just thought I'd mention it to my sister and she agreed with me.
She did mention though that she's been asking her to leave the room when she gets dressed and has been quite strict about this because she feels she is too old now to be in the room when she gets changed. My sister wondered if this might be why she had picked up being a bit shy in a swimming costume because she obviously has more body on show.
I'm not saying my sister is right or wrong. I get that we all have different approaches when it comes to this sort of thing.
But it did just make me think about getting dressed in front of children and I just wondered what everyone else have thought about this. I think I'm probably quite laid-back about it, although I absolutely wouldn't be taking underwear off when my son was in the room!!!

DS 10 is starting to close the door when he gets changed ( and yell if his sister comes in) but doesn't seem embarrassed if he walks in on me getting changed. I'm assuming when he does he'll learn to knock!

It’s just me and DD (she’s 11). Neither of us are at all inhibited at home and both use loo, shower and change with the other in the room. She has plenty of modesty with wider family and friends but as of now it doesn’t apply to me. If she shows any bother about it I’ll be more discreet but I let her lead.

I’ll stop when someone tells me they are uncomfortable.
I have 2 DD’s who are 7 and 2.5, and a DS who is 5. At the moment, nudity isn’t really an issue 🤷🏻‍♀️ Only rule I have is that you have to be wearing underpants if you sit on my sofa 😂 DS and the baby strip off almost immediately on entering the front door. DD1 is becoming a bit more aware of privacy, and would rather get herself dressed in the spare room after a bath for example, whereas before she’d have been happy to get dressed in the bedroom she shares with DS.
I just follow their lead. I usually have an audience of all 3 of them when I’m getting dressed in the morning because they all like to chill on my bed once they are dressed before school!

My parents used to wander to and from the bathroom naked when my brother and I were growing up. Always sunbathed topless or naked, depending on the beach, on holiday. I developed no qualms about doing the same and found it odd when partners commented on how at ease I appeared walking around the room naked after sex etc. On the flip side, in our all girls school swimming pool changing rooms, there would be some students that would get changed entirely shrouded in their towels.

I’m 39 now and when I visit my mum, I still don’t care about either her or I nipping to the loo at night starkers. It’s not appropriate when you have non-family guests around and I wouldn’t do it at my OH’s family houses etc.

Although, nipping into my bro’s room to ask him a question after I’d grbbed a shower a few years ago when we both went back to visit my mum meant his girlfriend got far more of an eyeful than she ever should have had to on Facetime. I still go bright red thinking about it.

In answer to your question though, OP, I don’t think there is an age. But then, my mum’s family is Dutch and they’re a lot less prudish than us Brits about body parts 😂