For a male child to be in the women's restroom?
Today there were a couple young kids running around screaming while their older brother (about 9) bounced a basketball in the women's locker room near the stalls while their mother relieved herself.
I don't have kids so I don't know but is 9 too old to be in the women's restroom? He could have watched the other kids right outside the locker room?
STella, are you talking
'locker room' or
'restroom', because I think there is a difference?
I don't think a 9 yr. old should be in a woman's locker room, but a restroom is a different story.
Preferably, he would not be there, however, a woman's restroom usually has a great deal of privacy,
...and in this day & age, leaving them alone for even an instant can be a moment too long. I don't see the problem so much as the boy being in there, as much as the boy not knowing that bouncing a ball was not the way to go. If anything she should have taught the kid to be as inconspicuous as possible. I don't have a problem with kids in the restroom, so long as they don't start peeping under or over the stalls. But then again I have been acclimatized to it, because we have a large number of
family restrooms up here that are used by people of both sexes. If you want a female's only or a males only restroom, you can go in there, ...but there are also family restrooms available. I'd rather see a parent bringing their child into a woman's bathroom, than see a parent bringing their child into a men's bathroom. Not as much privacy in there. Having a woman escorting her son into a men's bathroom is not fair to the men using urinals, whereas women will always have privacy.
The locker room, ...that's a whole nother story. Again, a unisex locker room would be appropriate,
otherwise, don't bring the kid in. Put his bathing suit on at home, and undress him/her in the hallway,
but don't bring the kid into an inappropriate locker room.
