Public bathrooms!

[Rod]

My daughter is nearly ten, so it's getting easier to let her use the ladies bathroom without hovering anxiously outside as I used to do. That got me some strange looks! I wish they had unisex rest rooms in some places, with just stalls. That would make life easier for people like me.

 

[Blake]

I hear you on that. The malls around here (and a few other places) have family restrooms. That means they are unisex and you can take children or people with disabilities in.

 

[Regis]

It's even weirder for me. The kids aren't really calling me Dad all the time and they love to call me by my first name when we're in the bathroom. I think they enjoy having other people give me strange looks.

 

[Greendad]

It's even weirder for me. The kids aren't really calling me Dad all the time and they love to call me by my first name when we're in the bathroom. I think they enjoy having other people give me strange looks.

I know how it feels. Sometimes kids are smarter than we thinks they are, huh? Anyway, I love the idea of family restrooms in malls and other public places.

 

[Terry]

Family restrooms - what a wonderful idea. As the father of girls I also have this issue, and tend to use department store toilets where possible, as I feel better about letting them go in alone. What age do you think they should be when we stop letting them come into the men's bathroom?

 

[Ed35]

There are a lot of family restrooms in my area. I still don't think going into the bathroom (or family restroom) with a 10 year old opposite sex of you child would be ok. At 10, they are old enough to go in without you.

 

[polamalu43]

I hate waiting for my daughter too, usually I hang back a bit so I don't look like I'm ready to grab anyone who comes out. I've seen some "family" bathrooms here too but I think it's just 1 large bathroom.

 

[jason]

I've seen some family restrooms, but they are not a lot it seems like around here. I know the strange looks part. I wonder how long it will be until someone calls the cops on me.

 

[WagnerB]

I know the strange looks part. I wonder how long it will be until someone calls the cops on me.

LOL I hope they wouldn't go that far. I think it is part of having a daughter. It is the beautiful part indeed. We are luckier than other dads who have only sons and don't have to deal with these strange looks.

 

[Miller]

Bathroom danger comes in two varieties: the man-mind kind and the nature kind. Keeping kids free of those nasty bathroom germs is a daily war against the pesky critters. It's hard to watch them all the time, especially when they are little. Still, I don't take my eyes off them when it comes to keeping them safe from dangerous people.