My wife and I go nude around our son very often. We pretty much never dress until we're getting ready to leave the house. I grew up with nudist parents, and am still a nudist. My son doesn't mind at all, in fact he knows if we're dressed when we get him up in the morning that he's going to daycare right away, so he's actually more likely to be upset by that.
I wouldn't walk around naked. With my son I stopped changing clothes with him there at like age 4. My daughter was more like 6 but I felt more comfortable cuz we are both girls.
Now growing up my mom and I would change in the same room especially when we shared one. I never felt uncomfortable with it.
I think there is a balance between normalising average bodies and nudity and exposing children to inappropriate things. My son isn’t yet two, we’re still nude around him and he has a bath with my husband every night but as he becomes more aware of both his body and ours it’ll start to incorporate privacy and where nudity is acceptable like our own bedrooms and for bathing. Not in shared spaces as normal behaviour
I feel like it's important to stop at a certain age... id say once they can use the bathroom and take a shower or bath by themselves then they for sure should no longer see you naked but as a general rule and model example, you should always strive to be clothed at all times in front of your kids.
So you said that your friend took a shower with her 4 yead old. Most millennial parents do that honestly. I'm not 100 percent sure why but i know its a thing. I personally find it weird. Your kid doesn't need you on the shower with them come on now.
I think once in while I saw one of my parents with little nude showing but as a general rule, we never saw each other naked, one time I was a teen and forgot my bedclothes and ran up in front of mom with no clothes on oops me bad
I've got a friend and when I was at her house once, she and her 4 year old son took a shower together. I found that weird. I was wondering if that's common, or what.
@bannacookies I took a shower with my mom when I was 3. I thought it was weird my entire life. It probably doesn't help that I have a photographic memory.
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