Let’s say you’re running around in the morning, trying to get everyone ready to leave the house. You’re not parading around naked for an extended period of time, you’re just going from the bathroom to the bedroom in order to get dressed after your shower. At what age is your kid too old to see you do this? Does it matter if your kid is the same sex as you? And I’m not including it in the poll, but I’d be curious to see where you’re from.
Other: I don’t really care, regardless of age. I don’t make an exhibition of it - they tend to avert their eyes anyway now they’re teenagers.
Of course, the reverse is not true - they value their privacy and I take steps not to intrude.
I’m from the UK.
I would say: When they ask you to stop. Then you respect them as you would anyone living in your house and at least don’t run around naked in front of them.
On the other hand, I’d never show up naked in front of my kids and my parents stopped even seeing me naked around age 8 or 9, so I grew up in a pretty conservative household. My dad used to give me baths until at least age 7 or 8, as far as I remember, but I also clearly remember them stopping when I didn’t want him to anymore.
I live in New york, but in matters like nudity, I tend to lean more towards my Indian roots. However I know they’re a bit extreme sometimes.
Same here. I do put my dressing gown on on some occasions when I might previously have not bothered, but it is also a complete non-event if I’m in the bath and she needs something from the bathroom, or vice-versa. She’s 13 and we’re both female.
Don’t ever underestimate a kid. To this day I vividly recall the “scenery” in question when my mom brought me into the local women’s gym’s locker room-when I was but 3 years old. If a woman were to notice my eyes bugging out she might very well have felt highly embarrassed. I thus voted 0-1 (tho age 2 is my upper limit in fact).
Didn’t vote because there are too many factors but an indicator for us was when my two year old son asked his mom “When will I get fur on my butt?”. She just told him “When you grow to be a man”. That satisfied him but she was more careful after that.
Oh god, this is totally different. I remember some woman brought her, maybe 6 or 7 YO kid into the woman’s bathroom. I remember because I was about 12 and this little POS walked right up and started peering between the gaps to look at the women peeing. I shrieked - I was 12, for heaven’s sakes - and the kid ran off. I still feel all icky when I think about that.
No woman wants that uncomfortable feeling of being gawked at by a little kid who’s just starting to get his big boy hairs or even just thinking about it. Keep your little pervs at home! 
I find this attitude strange in the extreme what does “more careful” mean? Hiding nudity from a 2 year old child…seriously? No wonder that society has such a curious and damaged relationship with the human body.
The kid asked a perfectly reasonable question and the mother answered it in a reasonable way, no further thought need be given to it. Non-sexual nudity is not something to be concerned about as it is perfectly possible for adults and children to be naked in front of each other at any age with no ill-effects. In fact I’d go further and say that such an attitude is far healthier than a compulsion to hide and cover up.
My oldest son and I never had an age. We usually go to the gym together and change in the locker room. So we never got to that “weird” stage.
My younger son tho’ is VERY modest. To the point where if we go to a public restroom and if there is even one person there; he wont use the urinal, he will go to a stall.
I don’t have any daughters, not sure what the cut off age would be if I did. Maybe 5 or so?
When they decide it makes them uncomfortable.
I don’t wander around naked much, but I do wander around in panties and a tank top. My daughter doesn’t care, but I DO wish she’d warn me when she has friends over.
I voted 0-1 and am from NY. The first time I saw this subject come up on the boards, it was pretty surprising. It never occurred to me that people would wander around naked in their home in front of their kids.
This should be interesting for me. I have two daughters, almost 6 and 3.5. They come into the bathroom when I’m taking a shower and such. It doesn’t bother me and it doesn’t seem to bother them. I’m guessing that when one of them asks me to stop then I will.
I remember my mother running around naked, but I don’t really remember how old I was when she stopped.
I don’t see a problem if it’s not sexual, it’s just skin. I also answer whatever questions my daughters have about our private parts.
Yeah, men don’t like having fathers bring their daughters into the men’s lockerroom either. I actually remember one father doing that at a water park; then proceeding to flip out at the other men telling them to coverup and stop “exposing” ourselfs to his daughter :dubious:. Taking you daughter into a men’s restroom isn’t nearly as bad; as long as they keep her away from the urinals.
My mom covers up the essentials and has at least since I was 3 (had to ask a sibling about that one) but my dad and I are indifferent. Too many people sharing 1 shower to have too much modesty. I’m nearly 30 and if I’m home and need to shower while my dads shaving, and my siblings are in the other bathroom, I just walk in and shower. Among the siblings we have had two rules about shared bathroom use since we were kids: no number two and don’t flush the damn toilet.
Non-sexual nudity within the family is no big deal to me. I grew up in NJ but both of my parents were raised in the south.
Personally I’m curious to see the people:bathroom ratios that posters grew up with. Ours was 6:1 for people to showers but it shifted to 3:1 when I was a teenager with the addition of another shower.
Let me explain. This is an Internet message board. Annecdotes are condensed. Lighten up since most of the “issues” you raised came from your own imagination.
I feel that there isn’t really a “too old” threshold, if only for the fact that the nudity described is non-sexual. I saw my parents in stages of nudity throughout my childhood (including my late teens) with no issues. Why? Because it was incidental (parent changing clothes while talking usually) and non-sexual. It’d be totally different if it were nudity in the process of some sexual act, which I’m lucky enough to not remember having ever [visually] caught either of my parents doing.
From US, European parents.
How old do you teach them not to scratch or fondle their crotch or ass in front of people because some things and parts are private? That’s how old is too old for you to be in public areas of the house naked, imo. Modesty issues and “Jesus, nobody wants to see that shit*” issues aside, it seems like it would make it harder for a kid yo internalize that HIS privates are private when YOURS are hanging out for all and sundry to see.
*Seriously, vanishing few folks want to see their parents naked. And just in case my mom might be reading this, NOBODY wants to look at the job the plastic surgeon did sewing their mother’s nipples back on after a boob lift. The offer shouldn’t ever be made in the first place, much less become an object of nagging and argument when it is refused.
My MIL and maid share the house with us, so there is no “general” nudity - but in my own bedroom (with the door closed) I don’t care. If you don’t want to see then don’t come in. Simple as that. My eldest daughter is 7. Still regularly sees me (and wife) naked, I will see her occasionally but she is becoming more private - that’s her business and I will follow her lead on that.
I would have put the opposite-sex line roughly between 3 and 4, but 2 through 5 are all lumped together.