Looking for views on naked children in public?

[mandy81]

I really don't think the child should be running around the street naked
ok if she want's to let him do it in the house or even the back garden fair enough thats the mothers choice, but there's no way I would let dylan run around the front garden naked. x

 

[Snowball]

I wouldn't personally let Eddie run around the street naked. However he is going through a phase of stripping off his bottom half at every opportunity. I am just the wally running after him pulling him back up all the time

 

[amazed]

I personally never let my kids go out naked even in the backyard (its quite overlooked anyway) Jamie who is nearly 3 was in his paddiling pool last week but he wore swimming trunks i dont know why but i dont like them being naked.... and for others to see them naked!

 

[Shri]

It wouldn't really bother me if someone else's kid was naked.
I would probably only allow nudity on my own child in more private places, though.
A lot of kids go through a nudie phase. Maybe the parents are just letting him get it out of his system and trying not to make a big deal out of it?

Ditto.
Where we used to live there was a little girl who was allowed to wander around naked between all the houses (you know where there is a back lane that runs before the gardens) and I thought that wasn't right purely because she had no protection on her body from the surroundings. It's one thing in a garden, on the beach etc but places where there is gravel, rusty stuff etc

 

[Jody R]

I used to run about naked when I was little, including out into the front garden and down the street and I never came to any harm.

I'd be more worried about sunburn than paedophiles to be honest but I can't say I'd want a neighbours child running through my garden, with or without clothes.

Joseph has been in the back garden naked because we had his paddling pool out. We also had enough umberellas and gazebo things up to keep him safe from the sun.

And we were at the beach this weekend and although he didn't go naked while we were there I probably would have let him if it hadn't been so windy and hot, I was worried he would burn.

I do remember that last year some people near my mums house had a naked toddler in a paddling pool in their front garden. It was boiling, there was no shade, they have a busy bus stop right by their garden, no front gate and it's a busy road.

Paedophiles were the last thing on my mind for that baby, I was scared he'd run out in front of a bus or get sunburn but one woman at the the bus stop was tutting loudly and saying "A paedophile could walk past, a paedophile could get off the bus."

I think we walk a fine line between protection and paranoia where paedophiles are concerned, it's a terrifying thing but we have to find a balance and I don't know what it is.

A man in one of the more well off areas of our town has been found guilty of downloading child porn and then superimposing the faces of children he knows onto the pictures of the children who were being abused. He took them from normal photo's any friend or relative might take, so the fact that we keep our children covered up in public just isn't enough to protect them from some people.

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/Child-porn-stash-shame-of.5951934.jp

I haven't had to decide what I will be letting Joseph do yet as he is so small. I remember playing naked in my paddling pool with friends at my house and naked at their house in their paddling pools etc. I can't see that happening with Joseph and his friends, primarily not because we would harm them or think their parents would harm Joseph but because if what people would automatically assume about it. We live in a different world.

 

[Midnight_Fairy]

It wouldn't really bother me if someone else's kid was naked.
I would probably only allow nudity on my own child in more private places, though.
A lot of kids go through a nudie phase. Maybe the parents are just letting him get it out of his system and trying not to make a big deal out of it?

Ditto.
Where we used to live there was a little girl who was allowed to wander around naked between all the houses (you know where there is a back lane that runs before the gardens) and I thought that wasn't right purely because she had no protection on her body from the surroundings. It's one thing in a garden, on the beach etc but places where there is gravel, rusty stuff etc

Mine go on the trampoline in just pants lol but not naked. I didnt mind when they were little and in the pool etc. We are not over looked and try not to make it a big deal. I wouldnt allow it in public though x

 

[Blah11]

I wouldnt care if I was you tbh, but I'd feel funny about letting amelie run about naked which is disgusting and sad that sick people make me feel that way

 

[caggimedicine]

Personally I don't allow Harry to be naked infront of anyone but us and close family. In fact - he is never naked in the garden, but last weekend he had some nappy free time for half hour (the neighbours were on holiday), but to carry him indoors I still covered him up incase the other neighbours could see! Don't know why - but in my opinion, it's Harry's privacy, and I'd hate to think of anyone looking at his privates.

On another note - I don't really approve of children playing in other people's gardens that they don't know whether they're naked or fully clothed - it's not their gardens to play in. We never dreamt of doing that when we were kids, and in fact, some kids were running around in our front garden last week, screaming and chasing each other and I told them off. Harry was in bed, and they have their own gardens to play in. I just had images of one of them falling over and hurting themselves, or even damaging one of the cars - who'd be responsible?

 

[lynnikins]

Nate wears at least swim shorts in the paddling pool, and id never let him run around out front naked id probably not let him naked in our own back garden caus its overlooked and id be worried about him hurting himself on the bushes etc....
as a child we had "garden clothes" which we could rip and get dirty and stuff so we were always clothed when we played mud pies or something else and wore our swimsuits in the paddlingpool,
im very protective of Nates privacy and will be of EJ's as well they will be taught to dress properly when in public and to respect their bodies by doing so,

 

[TattiesMum]

Personally I wouldn't be letting a 3 year old run about in the street by himself anyway - clothed or otherwise

I don't have an issue with nakedness per se ... most children (boys especially) go through a phase where keeping clothes on them is a nightmare LOL.

With regard to the paedophile thing - most children who are abused by a paedophile are abused by a member of their family or a close family friend ... it's how they work - by gaining the trust of both parents and child (grooming them) and thus gaining access to the child on a regular basis ..... and the vast majority of them have never been caught and are thus not registered or on our radars.

A peadophile is more likely to be your neighbour, your friend, your work colleague, the softball coach, your minister, your uncle, your brother in law etc etc, and the child being naked around them is neither here nor there if they are that way inclined The ones who actually snatch a child from the street who is a stranger to them are few and far between.

 

[helen1234]

I wouldn't let Rhys on my own back garden and esp not on a beach or any other public place I just don't think it's needed mostly because I wouldn't want to make other people to feel awkward, but mainly because unfotunatly we live in a cruel world and I teach my children we don't take all our clothes off where strangers can see our body, I
taught my daughter this and along with it came no talking to strangers green x code and other safety lesson. My garden is over looked by both sides I don't know the criminal history from either so I don't give either an inch.
Everyone parents different though it's their choice end of the day

 

[mamato2more]

Honestly, I don't know they do it on purpose..My sons have taken their diapers off when they were outside, and I did not know it right away..I would fix it as soon as I saw it..Running in the front?? Not a good thing..She may also be potty training as I know that is a technique people use..but, still, out in the front?

 

[minties]

Forget about the naked part, who on earth let’s a 3 year old go outside and down the road by themselves?! Or have I read that wrong? He could get run over in seconds.

 

[DobbyForever]

Fern did you mean to post here?

Mint this thread is 8 years dead but I hear you lol