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Reading this thread is elevating my blood pressure, resurfacing the neverending stresses of being a mother to young children. For parents of young children, dozens of difficult & unique decisions need to be made on a daily basis. One decision might please someone while infuriating another. Can't please everyone!
I look forward to society advancing to the point that children are viewed as they are: humans-in-training. Some day all people in public places will understand & accept & smile that children (and by association their parents too) can be odd little creatures sometimes, so sometimes odd things happen. AND IT'S NO BIG DEAL.
This has nothing to do with kids. It has everything to do with ADULT BEHAVIOR. This woman walked into a men's room with no warning whatsoever and walked up next to a man who was using a urinal and was exposed.
If it were a man walking in on a woman, it would not be ok, and it is still not ok for a woman walking in on a man.
As has been discussed several times, all she had to do if it were an emergency would have been to knock on the door and give some warning, so any men who would be uncomfortable would have a shot at zipping up.
Who has their 3 year old use an adult urinal anyway? She'd have to hold him up to use it. Talk about awkward, for everyone involved!
The kid involved hasn't caused a single person any heartburn. It's the adult woman who showed a total lack of respect for the privacy of the men already using that bathroom.
Some guys have trouble peeing when other GUYS are around - imagine the embarrassment of having to do your business in front of a strange woman and a little kid!!!!
From the way you describe it, it sounds odd but not knowing the circumstances of said 30 yo female and male child ,as a man I'd simply finish doing my business and wash up and depart. In general, yes, the most common is to go the adult gender restroom but knowing how women's rooms tend to be more crowded, it doesn't surprise me. Women often will go into men's rooms when the potty parity ratio means they are waiting in lines. Perhaps little child had to go bad and it was to alleviate an 'accident'?
I have traveled in Europe and have experienced other gender as attendants or even cleaning crew in US airport working in a public restroom and it never has phased me. Basically, as long as the other people have a job to do and are doing it I could care less. In this day and age with so many 'confused' about what gender they "identify as" I wouldn't be phased or taken aback unless say, a whole female co-ed aged group decided to use the men's room en masse, then I'd wonder if I entered the wrong restroom!
I've seen people play gags like that by switching the 'signs / symbols' in public places.
If a Dad brought his daughter into the women's restroom, he would not be received with friendly smiles, he would get confronted. I don't see why it's ok for a mom to go into the men's room. Mom takes kids into women's room, Dad takes kids into men's room. Everyone wins when a unisex room is available.
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Can you imagine the ----storm that would happen if a man took his daughter into the women's room while women were using the restroom?
It's not ok for a mom to take her son into the men's room.
The responsible party (adult, caretaker) should use their gender's bathroom, in my opinion.
I've wrestled with this issue a bit because I have an autistic son who could not go into the men's bathroom on his own. He's 17 now. In the past, his brother would take him into the bathroom and I've been lucky enough not to have him need to go when I was with him alone.
If it ever happens, though, I will take him into the ladies room rather than the mens. I will, however, warn everyone in there what is going on and make him cover his eyes and make sure he does not act inappropriately in any way. Hopefully, people can handle that.
Can you imagine the ----storm that would happen if a man took his daughter into the women's room while women were using the restroom?
I couldn't care less if a man decided to take his daughter into the women's bathroom. Women's restrooms all have stalls. What is he going to see, some women washing their hands?! Oh how horrible!
Maybe he's trying to teach the child how to use the appropriate bathroom for her gender? Just as the women in the OP might be trying to teach her son how to use a urinal. If she is a single mother, there might not be a father in the picture to show the boy how to properly behave in the men's restroom. He has to learn eventually, otherwise the OP will be making another post in a few years about how 7 year old boys should be using the appropriate bathroom for their gender. I doubt the woman was in the men's restroom checking out the men's junk.
Why did she even need to escort her child to the bathroom to begin with? I stopped doing that by the time mine were 3, at least in smaller places (not, say, the mall). People are WAY too paranoid these days about bathrooms, about anything really. Just a few days ago in a small restaurant a girl who had to be 7 or so went to go to the bathroom and her mother was going with her, and the child was clearly frustrated as she said "mom, I can do it by myself!" I came this close to saying a loud, "amen to that" and in retrospect I wish I had. The bathrooms there are very small and very close-by no matter where you are, and the child was (judging by appearances) freaking SEVEN. The given This silly helicopter parenting is ridiculous.
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