Nursery: Children painting with no clothes on?

[Jzee]

I'm pretty sure I heard this correctly, but it was mentioned to me recently that so as to stop the children's clothes getting covered in paint a nursery allows the children do painting naked. I don't know if this a regular thing, or perhaps they started off with nappies and knickers and ended up with nothing? I imagine the children find it fun, but personally I think it's a bit cold and a bit unusual. What are your opinions?

communual changing rooms at the pool, etc etc. nowhere to take the kids. and mine are streakers, same as mieows dd's. think its to do with clothes irritating their skin.

So will you bar your child from doing PE - just in case? I just don't see the difference.

letting them run around naked, makes them innocent!!! there is no right, or wrong.

As I said earlier, two of the classes I help out in are PE classes. I am helping children get undressed/dressed etc....

NONE of the parents know I am in that classroom!

no you dont.
I DONT WANT PEOPLE TAKING MY DD'S CLOTHES OFF AND WATCHING HER RUN AROUND NAKED, WHETHER MEANT INNOCENTLY OR NOT.
BY THE TIME SHE STARTS DOING PE, SHE WILL KNOW IN HER OWN MIND WHATS GOING ON BUT AN 19 MONTH OLD CHILD WOULD NOT!

LOL at all the streaker toddlers My sister uesed to always take all her clothes off at every opportunity. She could remove every article of clothing in seconds and before you knew it she was running nto the garden or wherever starkers. Luckily she did grow out of it - she's 22 now and, as far as I know, she doesn't do it now

Colleague's 2yo DD regularly strips off in the supermarket whilst her mum is at the till!

why does them running around naked make them innocent?

Just checked with DD1 (9yo in Year 4 class).

They get undressed in their classroom with their male teacher present.

dd2 tried to undress in mothercare the other day to try out a potty.

LOL Hula

We have video footage of DD1 (then age 3) during the Nursery Nativity play. Said her words, then got bored and proceeded to strip off to her knickers on the stage

its an inocent thing to do in a childs eye. they are not worrying about perverts etc. they camer into this world naked didnt they?

maybe i'm a naturalist at heart.

they DONT understand at such a young age and thats why they take off their clothes at the drop of a hat, but surely we should teach them it should be done in public? even naturists choose the time and the place and its up to them whether they do it.

Fine - you don't like it for your child. However, that doesn't make it wrong for other children and other parents who don't mind their child running round naked having innocent fun.

I said at the start that I found it very unusual for a nursery to have children painting naked, but not unusual for children to strip down to underwear for messy activities. I suggest that Jzee is not happy then she should talk to her childcarers and ask about the policy. And if she doesn't like it, then ask for her child to not be undressed, even if the others are. Or to tske her to a different childcarers, with different policies.

But they are babies for such a short time.

hulababy, i have said this many times here!
my opinion is not a verbal thrashing of anyone on here and others have been very vocal in stressing their opinion..this is mine
and we will never agree as we both have our own ways and acceptances.
you think its right, i think its wrong, jzee asked for our opinions, she didnt want a ruck.

i'm gettign a feeling i'm being accused of being odd here.

i dont see anything wrong with kids running around nude, i dont see it as a thing to worry about, clothes limit moveoment anyway and irratte skin, so if a child wantys to strip off in a safe enviroment then they should be able to. (and i consdier a nursery place where they are doing painting perfectly safe)

dd1 went everywhere in a fairy costume once which was little more than a frilly swimsuit teamed with a pair of pink glittery welly boots. it was the middle of a heatwave, and tbh it covered more of her than what some teenagers where wearing.

MMW - I am not having a go at you. I was just asking questions to clarify things. I have already said that yes, fine we disagree.

thankyou lockets, in 'our' day, there was never as much 'news' about peodophiles and most people just got on with it, but even dp sat here(also feeling very strongly) said that at 7 his pe teachers used to make them do activities in pants and even at that age, he found it incredibly embarresing.
we're all more aware of things now and i want to make sure my dd is safe. thats not too much to ask is it? and if me being over cautious causes a stir, then so be it.

i have recently found and destroyed a photograph taken by my father of me when i was about 6-7 in the shower with nothing on and showing all my body.
if my own father can be the sad, pathetic weirdo that he is, whos to say joe public cant?
im not taking the risk.

MMW not everyone is like your father. i know its a risk your not willing to take, and i feel for you, really i do, and how horrible to find a pic of youself taken by him, but not everyone is like that.

and swimsuits are something we all wear, and covers most of our modesty, i dont find that a problem, otherwise i wouldnt take my dd swimming.
but i wouldnt strip off in the middle of a supermarket, and we're here to lead by example.

MMW; I really am sorry for what happened to you with your father as a child. No child should ever have to put up or deal with any abuse. I really hope this thread hasn't caused you further upset. And, I imagine, if I had been subject to such things I may have different views too.

Have to say that we don't do nudie pictures of DD - just 'cos I imagine she'd be embarrased by them as she grew up and they'd only end up in the bin then anyway.

i know missdee, maybe thats why i feel like i do, but dp feels the same and nothing terrible happend to him.
maybe i look into things too much, but ill never apologise for being the way i am, that way, hopefully ill never have to see my dd go through what i did.