Toilets with children

That reminds me of the time when I had just come out of the shower and a little head poked round the bathroom door and observed "My Daddy has got one of those and his is bigger than yours" <LoL>

If they have to go.......

Then if I'm the only adult available they come in with me ( boys and girls) , if Grampy is the only adult available then they go with him( girls and boys) .

They don't have enough time for looking around and if they did - they're not seeing people having sex just having a wee!!

Atthe pool at our gym the rule is no boys over the age of 8 in the ladies UNLESS they are only there with a lady . I really don't see the issue at all.

Better that than they go in alone - now that in my opinion is asking for trouble.

Do pubs usually have urinals? I would have thought that most are too small and would just have a couple of cubicles.

Yes, you are being too sensitive. Get over it and get a life!

Can't help but feel that the man was being thoughtless to leave the girl in the main area while he 'went to use the cubicle himself'. Why? That situation no doubt made the men coming in feel compromised - I know my OH would feel uncomfortable with an unknown small girl standing, alone, while he urinated!

I'd suggest using the disabled loo but if it's not available I don't see what the problem is

It's sad that we have to worry like this all the time isn't it? And you'd have thought that it was quite OK for an 11-year old girl to go to the ladies alone. But a girl this age was raped in the toilets at Sainsbury's in Leamington Spa.

How can you protect against that?

MissAdventure ,me neither or his legs ,he didn;t wear shorts ...ever .We were a family of 4 daughters so poor dad was well outnumbered he never used bad language around us ..or other women either .In fact he used to blush over even quite mild bad language or scenes on TV he thought were embarassing.....and all those years ago they really weren't explicit at all ,60's and 70's TV was very innocent in comparison to todays

I never even saw my dad in his vest!
Times have changed so much; family dynamics too.

Am I the only one who would take note of each guy coming out of the gents if my 8 yr old GS was in there alone. ?

The up to and including 8 years old rule for boys in ladies toilets/changing rooms has been in place for years in my area.

I know what you mean petra but I wonder about the motive of the OP.
hence the

Jalima Meaning the OP has nothing better to do or comment on.

A similar situation to that described by annsixty
DS takes her 2 boys to a swimming pool in a hotel in Beijing and always took them into the (open plan) ladies changing room. Apparently someone complained about boys being there (they were 2 and 6 at the time) and so 'The Rules' were changed and NO BOYS AT ALL were allowed in the ladies. Both boys were to go into the gents changing room on their own. You can imagine the conversation which took place. The up-shot was that a member of staff was to go with them to help change them and then again to dry and dress. As she handed over the nappy bag she just happened to mention the dirty nappy the 2yr old had. Strangely he was handed back pdq and was allowed back in the ladies. The 6yr old went in the gents with a staff member. Now out of nappies the younger one does also. As they visit the pool frequently they know the staff well and there have been no problems. DS rather likes the fact she can shower and change in peace but would have been very concerned if the boys had had to go in alone.

When taking his daughter swimming my son had to take his daughter into the gents changing room. And there are often little boys in the female changing rooms.

I don't see the problem.

Is somebody bored.

There is nothing wrong with a dad taking his child to a public toilet.If she needs to go,she needs to go.We tend to worry about little girls in front of men,more than little boys in front of women,for good reason unfortunately.My Little granddaughter [3years] innocently comes out of the toilet with everything still pulled down.

Yes odd come to think of it

If she was two she was no more than a toddler and wouldn`t have even noticed men using the toilets . Sounds a tad prudish to me , why was you H uncomfortable? has he never taken a child to use the Loo when out ?

Rather strange topic of conversation for a first post.

I'm having doubts!

Jalima As I was posting I thought the same thing. Is somebody bored.

A 2 year old wouldn't even notice/ understand if someone was ' worse for wear'
I think some of you should get out more and then you'll see that most pubs now are family friendly.
Have some of you never been in a male toilet? If you haven't I can assure you that they are not all standing there waving the old fella around. In fact most men never see another mans penis in this situation.

I remember going into men's toilets with my dad, when I was very young.

My DS is main carer for his 3yr old daughter. He takes her into men's toilets if there is no alternative, such as a disabled toilet, but is well aware that men's toilets are often dirtier and have been more vandalised than women's toilets.

I was going to post but there is something odd about this thread.
Or is it just me?

Yes, I wondered that! Maybe he didn't need to go himself?