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At what age should you stop walking around starkers in front of your DC's?

19 replies

TooMuchCaffeine · 26/01/2010 10:14

DS is 6 and we still do. Although at school some boys are now using "rude" words so now when he sees us he starts laughing hysterically.

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kreecherlivesupstairs · 26/01/2010 10:19

I'm not sure there is a time. My dd is terribly prudish where her dad is concerned, he isn't. she is not fussed about me being nudeydudey and quite often gets in the bath with me (my spa day treat) If he is wandering without clothes she asks him to put his knickers on. He generally complies but wears pants rather than knickers.

GooseyLoosey · 26/01/2010 10:21

I guess only if it evers shows signs of bothering them. Ds is 6 and dd 5 and so far there has been no sign of any problems.

I can see that in 10 years time I may not want to parade my wrinkled form infront of teenagers though.

PurpleEglu · 26/01/2010 10:21

I think you do it when your children start to feel uncomfortable with it. I don't think your DS laughing is a reason to stop though. He needs to learn it is normal. We all have these body parts etc.

TheInvisibleManDidIt · 26/01/2010 10:25

When they see you getting dressed and scream 'My eyes, my eyes'

I think I started closing my door to get changed when they when ds1 was about 5 or 6. They're still not bothered about seeing dh in his boxers.

I walked into their room when ds2 (almost 8) was getting changed last week and he tried to hide himself from me. I found that quite sad (in a 'you're my baby and it was only yesterday I was changing your nappies way')but suppose that's part of growing up.

morethanyoubargainfor · 26/01/2010 10:29

my ds is 7 and he doesn't have any issues with either myself or dh being nude in front of him. when it does become an issue then we will stop it.

fortyplus · 26/01/2010 10:31

We still walk around naked in front of our dcs - they are 14 and 16. They don't mind though they don't do it themselves any more. Of course I wouldn't ever have been seen naked by anyone else's dc - that's if you don't count the time i was in the bath and forgot to lock the door and ds1's best friend wandered in for a wee - but luckily he was only about 4!

CurtainTwitcher · 26/01/2010 10:35

our eldest is 6 and doesnt seemed bothered however he does cover his willy up if he is naked before then going for a pee starkers in front of you so I suppose it will be in the next year or so

bellavita · 26/01/2010 10:38

DS1 (nearly 13) and DS2 (10) often walk into my bedroom when I have no clothes on, or into the bathroom when I have a bath or even come and talk to me through the screen in the shower room and it certainly does not bother them. On the other hand though, when DS1 is in the bath and say he shouts me because he has forgotten to take his towel in, then he quickly turns over onto his front and lays down so I take this as embarrassment and avert my eyes for him, but as for them seeing me they certainly are not bothered...

AMumInScotland · 26/01/2010 10:40

When they get embarassed by it - typically about age 8 to 10, but as fortyplus says, some just don't seem to get bothered. About the same age they're likely to want their own privacy a bit too and not change in front of you any more.

Jenbot · 26/01/2010 13:52

I got a toddler book from the library last week that says you shouldn't let your children see you naked after the age of 2 or 3 because they will get sexual urges and it will confuse them.

tvaerialmagpiebin · 26/01/2010 13:58

Oh - name and shame please Jenbot!!!!!
What a lot of rot.
No harm done unless they are obviously bothered. I don't think most people are actually walking round the house starkers, are they, just getting dressed/undressed, in the shower or whatever.

LittlePushka · 26/01/2010 14:02

Oh yes, name said book of twaddle,...but only as I need info myself on how to get such urges .

EleanoraBuntingCupcake · 26/01/2010 14:44

jenbot - that has to be an american book

Bonsoir · 26/01/2010 14:48

When you start feeling embarrassed about your aging body in front of more attractive young ones. So teenagers, probably - unless you had your children very young or are improbably genetically blessed.

BonjourIvressedeNoel · 26/01/2010 14:57

that's got to be "what to expect" i burnt that evil book

sweetkitty · 26/01/2010 15:03

I still get dressed or shower in front of DD1 and 2 (5 and 4), DP doesn't, they have a willy fascination though and think willys are hysterical and sing songs about them.

TheFirstLady · 26/01/2010 15:05

We thought the children would start to get embarrassed by our aging bodies at some stage, but DD1 is 13 and will still happily stroll into the bathroom when DH is having his shower. We appear to be something of a nudist household everyone walks around naked, but since the time DD's friend bumped into me coming out of the bathroom starkers at 3am I've been more careful when there are overnight guests.

Mumcentreplus · 26/01/2010 15:06

My DDs are 6 and 7 they are not the least bit worried about mine or their fathers jiggly bits although they asked me why my belly hangs like that!...bluddy cheek I promptly informed them its because they stretched it out with all their kicking and wriggling ...they find this quite hilarious

Jenbot · 26/01/2010 15:38

(Yes it was "What to expect", what a pile of $^!!*.)

I kept reading that bit out to everyone I was so horrified, I thought it was awfully sad but at the same time scary that some people must really think that way. Idiots.

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