# Naked 8 year old: guess I should knock :) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 27, 2011, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-8-year-old-guess-i-should-knock/569192 "2011-01-27T16:02:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-8-year-old-guess-i-should-knock/569192/1 "2011-01-27T16:02:43Z")
šŸ˜ƒ Iā€™m leaving for work this morning so I go to my daughters room to give her a kiss. I open the door and she squeals and tries to cover her non-existent goodies. šŸ˜ƒ I had a huge grin on my face all the way in. I guess I really should start knocking on her door now. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-8-year-old-guess-i-should-knock/569192/2 "2011-01-27T16:05:52Z")
Sounds about right. My kids just love hearing how I once changed their dirty diapers all the time. I think you should bring this up too. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-8-year-old-guess-i-should-knock/569192/3 "2011-01-27T16:12:29Z")
Anyone else relieved **Cesario** no longer posts here? ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-8-year-old-guess-i-should-knock/569192/4 "2011-01-27T16:28:11Z")
My 8 year old son doesnā€™t want you to see him change clothes, but he has no issue with jumping into the bathtub with us if he discovers mom & dad in the jacuzzi tub. Removing clothing - bad Naked - bad Water involved? OK ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-8-year-old-guess-i-should-knock/569192/5 "2011-01-27T16:37:20Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Anyone else relieved **Cesario** no longer posts here? Not as relieved as Iā€™ll be when people stopping bringing him up. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-8-year-old-guess-i-should-knock/569192/6 "2011-01-27T17:04:19Z")
Didnā€™t intend to start a pedo-war, just a little throwaway incident that struck me funny. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-8-year-old-guess-i-should-knock/569192/7 "2011-01-27T17:13:38Z")
Thatā€™s just about the right time. My six year old is getting a little bit shy about her body already with her mama! And I breastfed her until she was 3.5 so itā€™s hard to imagine any modesty at all between us. Itā€™s sweet and a little sad knowing itā€™s the time they start pulling away. ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-8-year-old-guess-i-should-knock/569192/8 "2011-01-27T17:43:57Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > Didnā€™t intend to start a pedo-war, just a little throwaway incident that struck me funny. Iā€™m sorry, I didnā€™t mean my response to **Freudian Slit** to go any further than it went. Your OP _was_ funny. Kids grow up when you least expect it! ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-8-year-old-guess-i-should-knock/569192/9 "2011-01-27T17:49:47Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > I had a huge grin on my face all the way in. Thatā€™s why they get embarrassed. They know youā€™re laughing at them. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-8-year-old-guess-i-should-knock/569192/10 "2011-01-27T19:56:12Z")
I should be so lucky. Both of my girls (10 and 6) routinely run around the bedroom floor of the house either naked or in underwear. When I ask the older ones tell me not to worry and she promises to stop when she grows boobs. Oh my head. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-8-year-old-guess-i-should-knock/569192/11 "2011-01-27T20:01:27Z")
I can remember, at the beach girls didnā€™t wear tops until they were at least 8 or 9. They looked like little boys except for longer hair. There was nothing to cover up. I havenā€™t been to a beach in 25 years. I guess today they even make 5 year olds wear a top at the beach. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-8-year-old-guess-i-should-knock/569192/12 "2011-01-27T21:22:20Z")
> [@Algher](#): > > My 8 year old son doesnā€™t want you to see him change clothes, but he has no issue with jumping into the bathtub with us if he discovers mom & dad in the jacuzzi tub. > > Removing clothing - bad > Naked - bad > Water involved? OK I had zero modesty at that age. Not only would I run around naked after a bath whenever I was at my grandmotherā€™s Iā€™d insist on scrubbing the tub afterward, while still naked. Which Grandma found hilarious and took pictures off. Of course the early '90s were a different era and by modern standards sheā€™d be considered a child pornographer. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-8-year-old-guess-i-should-knock/569192/13 "2011-01-27T22:22:47Z")
My daughter must have gotten her modesty from her mommie, because despite my families barbs I still have very little. And Iā€™m no Adonis. I think most of the previous generations parents would have been ā€˜pornographersā€™ šŸ™‚ My mother had several photos of me on the pottie and in various states of undress. Usually outside and in the company of other victims šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Any\_Other\_Name](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@Any\_Other\_Name](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Any_Other_Name)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-8-year-old-guess-i-should-knock/569192/14 "2011-01-27T22:47:26Z")
When my daughter was 5, sheā€™d tell everyone, ā€œIā€™m wearing my Belle (Disney) underwear - wanna see?ā€ Sheā€™s 21 now. I donā€™t think she does that anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Jorge\_Burrito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Jorge\_Burrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jorge_Burrito)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-8-year-old-guess-i-should-knock/569192/15 "2011-01-27T23:48:54Z")
> [@Any\_Other\_Name](#): > > When my daughter was 5, sheā€™d tell everyone, ā€œIā€™m wearing my Belle (Disney) underwear - wanna see?ā€ > > Sheā€™s 21 now. I donā€™t think she does that anymore. Does she no longer wear Belle underwear? ---
**Author:** ![gurujulp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@gurujulp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gurujulp)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-8-year-old-guess-i-should-knock/569192/16 "2011-01-27T23:55:39Z")
My daughter (now that she has a momma in the house) wonā€™t stop running out and shaking her butt at us after a showerā€¦ But we are all nudists at the beach or the hot tub. I will wear shorts if she is gonna be sitting on my lap, cause I donā€™t want pictures that look crazy, though. But pictures that are obviously not sexual are not illegalā€¦ but they are also usually only on Mamaā€™s phone- and they donā€™t last long unless the relevant bits are coveredā€¦ She learned long ago to keep her door closed or the bathroom door closed if she was doing private thingsā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-8-year-old-guess-i-should-knock/569192/17 "2011-01-28T00:16:43Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > ā€¦I think most of the previous generations parents would have been ā€˜pornographersā€™ šŸ™‚ My mother had several photos of me on the pottie and in various states of undress. Usually outside and in the company of other victims šŸ™‚ She had even more of pictures of my older brother and male cousins. They had an indoor pool so skinnydipping was pretty common (unless the girl cousins were present), Iā€™m alot younger than them so I didnā€™t get to do that. I do remember skinnydipping ā€œaloneā€ (ie with my grandmother or auntie on deck supervising) when I was 8 or 9. There are actual home movies of my uncles skinnydipping with their classmates circa 1960. I found that out after one of them transfered a bunch of old films onto DVD. One uncle had a summer birthday so one year he got to invite a bunch of his friends to a party at the family lake cottage. So the footage just cuts from a Christmas party to a bunch of boys skinnydipping and coming out of the lake naked and eating lunch while Grandmaā€™s walking around in a big poofy Mad-Men dress serving food. Pretty big culture shock compared to nowdays. ---
**Author:** ![Any\_Other\_Name](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@Any\_Other\_Name](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Any_Other_Name)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-8-year-old-guess-i-should-knock/569192/18 "2011-01-28T02:40:59Z")
> [@Jorge\_Burrito](#): > > Does she no longer wear Belle underwear? I think my wife asked her once if a thong she found in the laundry belonged to her. I go deaf now when the subject of underwear comes up, unless weā€™re discussing boxers and briefs on the man side of the family tree. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-8-year-old-guess-i-should-knock/569192/19 "2011-01-28T02:48:33Z")
> [@Any\_Other\_Name](#): > > I think my wife asked her once if a thong she found in the laundry belonged to her. Evidently, she said it was, or youā€™re omitting a long discussion your wife had with _you_. ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-8-year-old-guess-i-should-knock/569192/20 "2011-01-28T03:00:32Z")
On the flip side of that, my daughters have a fit if I do something as shocking as wearing just my underwear outside my bedroom. I donā€™t do it often, and itā€™s almost always only either top or bottom, not both, but somehow theyā€™re just horrified. And this is in spite of the fact that the older one played a college sport and lived with roommates for several years. I guess itā€™s different when itā€™s your mom. They donā€™t want me around if theyā€™re changing, either. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-8-year-old-guess-i-should-knock/569192.md?page=2)