I was wondering what peoples opinions are on being around your child naked, when are they to old?

Question

I have a one year old son just wondering when it starts to be inappropiate for us to shower with him and get dressed in front of him. Im the mom of course but im just wondering what other people feel about this~

Answer 1

My son is three and i still get dressed in front of him. Sometimes i feel weird because like you i think maybe it's wrong now that he's getting a little older. But, my son has no interest in staring at me. I'm his mommy so i think he's use to seeing me naked. Of course this will probably be the last year i do it since he will be 4 in November but for now i'm not worried. Since he's still trying to get the hang of the potty his father and i still see him naked so it's natural for him to see us too.
I think it's more of a personal opining. Of course if my son were staring at me and trying to touch my boobs or something then i wouldn't do it any longer but that's not the case. Your son is still very young so i wouldn't worry for a while. I think it helps children understand the differences between girls and boys. It's a natural process.

Answer 2

honestly-everyone is different. It is all on how you raise the family. For a son and mother, I think 2 years is a good time to stop. But he may continue with the father till he is about 4 . That is how I have done it with my family. It really depends on how comfortable you feel. I also feel different about around the house nakedness. where I feel it is okay for kids to shower with their parents till the child is 4 , I dont feel that it is okay to walk around the house naked in front of them after 1 or 2. (Not saying you do that) I just feel that way because you are in the shower to be clean, so that is what you are doing, less time to look at things. But around the house, it give the child a chance to see more than they should

Answer 3

People have very different feelings about this, here are mine and my reasons:
To young children nudity has nothing to do with sex, they don't (or at least shouldn't) know about sex or what that is, so for them nudity isn't sexual. I do not want my children to feel that there is anything shameful or wrong about their nakedness, so I don't act as if there is anything shameful or wrong about mine. My four y/o son would sometimes, maybe a year or two ago, show interest in how I had breasts and daddy didn't and that I didn't have a penis, etc but now he doesn't care. I do not plan on stopping being naked in front of my son until it seems that he is getting uncomfortable with it. With same sex children I think it's even less of an issue, my mom was naked in the mornings at home throughout my childhood and adolescence and I never cared. If anything I think it made me more secure about my body, to see her not ashamed of hers even though it was imperfect.

Answer 4

I would say around the time before your child starts going to school, then I would say that the showers would need to stop, not because I think that it is wrong, but maybe to avoid anything bad coming out of it, if your child were to talk about it at school and you know how people are these days they could take it the wrong way and something bad could happen like reporting it. I think you will also feel in yout gut when maybe he is a little too old also. Good Luck

Answer 5

My son is 17 months and he still goes in the bathroom with me while I take a bath. he screams when I take a shower. I think he's scared of the noisy shower. Any way, I wouldn't get a bath everyday if he didn't come with me as there is no one here to watch him. I don't know when I'll stop doing that I guess when he starts making a big deal about it or starts to notice. For now I don't think it's a big deal.

Answer 6

I was raised to be comfortable with myself and my nakedness. I'm a girl, and my mom was never shy about changing in front of me or showering when I was around. My father of course didn't do that, but since my mom was so comfortable with herself I grew up to be comfortable with myself. I think it's all up to you and what you decide is best for your son and when you decide he's too old to see you naked. I think there will come a time when you're not comfortable with it anymore (maybe when he's old enough to know that girl parts and boy parts are different?) and so until you reach that point of uncomfortableness, I'm sure he's fine with it, too.

Answer 7

I think one year old is fine but soon he'll start asking questions. I have three kids. 4 year girl. 2 year girl, and a 9 month old boy. I get a shower with the girls but I won't let them them shower with their father. They used to when they were younger but my oldest started asking questions and we had to put an end to that. We are young and we didn't think that she would have noticed but they are smarter than what you think. I would say no later than 2 years old.

Answer 8

i'm not a single mom, i'm married. I actually have a 5yo daughter and an 11mo son. She generally sleeps in a night blouse and a fabric night time pull-up, through fact she nonetheless has injuries. while she gets u in the morning, she takes the pull-up off and generally walks around bottomless for approximately 1hr in the past getting dressed. I see not something incorrect with it. And neither does my husband. And while my son is older, he can walk around besides he chooses additionally.

Answer 9

I got in the bath tub with my daughter up till she was 2 years and then we kinda stopped that. but i will tell ya this, my husband sometimes changes in front of her and he sleeps naked so when he gets up to throw the blanket on her before the light is turned off since she is in our room occasionally when he is gettin ready for shower and he is in his underewear she comes over and grabs his u know what... so I would say the earlier you stoip it the better.

Answer 10

It is personal opinion and comfort and nothing more.

I have always taught modesty and personal privacy over exposure and freedom. I believe it creates a personal sense of respect and caution necessary in this day and age.

My children are free to discover their own bodies in the privacy of their own bath, space or bedroom... We NEVER involved ourselves in that beyond answering and encouraging questions they might have, and we never bathed or showered with them past infancy. I simply don't believe in it. There is plenty of exposure in the world today and they will learn it soon enough... Modesty is however an underestimated virtue.

To each his own...