What age do boys become self-conscious about nudity/privacy?

[Namy090]

My DD who's 8 years old has been conscious about her privacy for two years now and doesn't let anyone see her naked. On the other hand, my nephews who are 9 and 7 years old are still not bothered about their privacy. They still shower or use the toilet with the door wide open, change clothes in front of us without caring etc. My DS, like my nephews, also isn't bothered about privacy yet, but he's still only 5.
What age do boys become self-conscious about privacy/nudity? Does it happen later for boys compared to girls? Or are my nephews just exceptions?

Mine are 9 and 12 and sometimes one will get in the bath before the other has got out, only last year they both were in with me! God knows how we all fit

No I think your daughter is the outlier.

My DD is 10 and still comfortable naked within our household. Probably a bit towards the other extreme

I'd imagine it will be different for each child rather than dependant on their gender. My son was around 7 when he started showering alone and having more privacy. My nephew at nine still bathes with his 4 year old brother and isn't bothered.

I have 8yo boy/ girl twins and let's just say privacy is not an issue here 😆 only last summer they would scoot down our cul de sac in their pants if I didn't catch them first. They still run around naked and wiggle their bottoms at each other etc.

11yo DD still walks around naked but will squawk if people go into the loo when she is using it.

I'd say 6 is very young and I haven't seen any difference.in the sexes.

DS1 was about 10. DS2 slightly earlier, about 8 or 9 I think - but I reckon this was likely influenced by DS1 becoming more private.

I have an 11 year old DS and he has no qualms about nudity at home yet, but has wanted privacy when undressed outside of the house (for example in swimming pool changing rooms) for the last couple of years.

I agree with others that your DD was very young, nothing wrong with that but she's the outlier

My boys are fine with nudity around us and some extended family members. My 9 year old is getting a bit self conscious sometimes

Mine were aroud the 9.

With DS, something happened very suddenly at school. He was in reception and had no qualms about nudity but this stopped very abruptly.

I think he was changing for PE and the reception class teacher, (a very strict and fundametalist religious person) said something harsh and or shaming to him.
He changed overnight. At five years old we never saw him naked again. We respected his feelings of course but it was very strange.

Around 9/10 for mine ! He would demand some privacy but it didn’t matter about anyone else’s 😆

I have two boys, an 8 year old and an 11 year old.

My 8 year old is much more mindful of his privacy, for example he would much prefer to go off to a different room to get changed into his pyjamas rather than do it in front of me or his dad.

My 11 year old however is the polar opposite!!! He would happily be naked all the time and genuinely wouldn’t care….. he described himself as very body confident confident. (He is obviously only like this at home though, not at other people’s houses) 🤣

I call dd, who is nearly 8, Mowgli as she always seems to want to be in just her pants at home!

Yeah I have a naked child. They’re 8. No qualms about letting it all hang out. 😂

Gosh at 6 mine were completely oblivious. Totally innocent. (In fact one of mine fell in a pond on a school trip at 6, and was given a towel to cover his lower half while his clothes dried, and the teaching assistants found it hilarious that he was consistently unable to hold his towel in a dignified way but was completely unbothered by it. More interesting things to focus on.)

I’d be worried about why your DD is even conscious of this as an issue at such a a young age.

My DC became more private once they’d started senior school and puberty was in its way.

S1 started carefully closing the door when he went to the loo aged about 7

We didn't generally wander round without minimal coverings anyway (maybe we're uptight, maybe we're just ASD)

My 9yo DS is just starting to express a wish for privacy, though it's pretty intermittent. I imagine within the next year he will start closing doors more, but he has some SEN and finds self care skills difficult. He can get dressed independently, but finds it hard, so 9 times out of 10, the ease of having me help outweighs the want for privacy.

My 6yo DD is still completely unaware.

See I don’t understand this, was he just left unsupervised in the bath/shower?

I think never to see your own child naked from age 5 is a bit sad tbh.

They are still babies at that age, I was still helping dd get dressed some days!

My DD needed help with hair washing too. When she started becoming more self conscious, she would only let me and dh see her naked and no one else. After she could wash her hair well independently, she asked for privacy from us as well.

Don't know, I thought it was the usual age. Maybe she learned it from a friend I guess.

My 8yo ds wanders about naked all the time. My 12yo dd has only recently started shutting the bathroom door when she showers, although it’s still not all the time. She seems unphased at myself or ds seeing her naked, although she seems a little more conscious of dh seeing her.