family changing rooms and nakedness......

[allthreerolledintoone]

i took dd and ds swimming the other day and spotted a family changing room which was good because ds is too young to go himself and i wouldnt want him to. Anyway obviously there were other families mummys and daddys etc in there and showers and changing cubicles etc. well after swimming i jumped into the showers with the kids and focusing on my business when i turned around and noticed the women next to me was innocently showering but completely naked. Anyway i came out of the shower to get my bits on the bench and the womens husband was also completely naked he's the oblivious to anyone else giving hiself a good old towel rub as if he were in his own bathroom at home.

Well i didnt know where to look or what to make of it tbh.Part of me thought well good on them for not being shy about their bodies but then i felt uncomfortable with another mans bits on show right next to me. Dd was mortified and so i quickly hushed them into the changing cubicles. I know its is hard to matain your modesty when getting changed but surely it can't be right to have it on display in a family area? what do you think?

It's pretty unusual behaviour in the UK, I would say. But on the other hand, if this is set up as a family changing room that is meant to 'hold' more than one family, then I guess it's inevitable. I thought that the family rooms were usually for one family at a time!
It's completely normal elsewhere, esp Nordic countries and Germany and might help children understand that there's nothing wrong with naked bodies and also that bodies come in many different shapes...
Having said that, if you were shocked then your kids would have been too. And I bet you're not the only one.
Maybe have a chat with reception and see what their 'policy' is so you'll know whether this was a one-off. They might also want to make the 'rules' a bit clearer for people, especially given this has to be pretty rare in the UK.

ISNT.....most people know that boys above seven aren't allowed in women's toilets/changing room.....it's just not law. I think you're being a bit silly and to make such a fuss just makes it worse.

Funnily enough someone obviously complained about my son being in the ladies changing room with me today as a few minutes after she left in marched a memeber of staff and told me we couldn't be in there.

He was getting changed from his school stuff to his sports stuff.

I take him in there with me as the group changing rooms are where all the people get changed for swimming so is wet and it is quicker as I don't have to send him back 10 times for all the stuff he forgets before his session starts.

He is 8. /-:

If I had the energy I would threaten the local swimming baths with the DDA.