Would you leave your 12 year old in the gift shop...

[mom2rtk]

Why does that matter?

Just curios where you're coming from. It seems you don't have much insight into an adolescent girl's life. Maybe you're the one bringing a 10 yo son into the women's bathroom?

 

[Peter Fan]

So what if i am

 

[dadddio]

I thought this thread was about a twelve year old not wanting to ride a roller coaster.

 

[TruBlu]

WOW! You guys are REALLY off-topic here! Seriously???

OP, I hope you got an answer that helped.

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[Melodious]

Oh now we have college boys in the restroom!! Ha ha! This started out with a 10 yr. old

Ok, I call troll. You deliberately misrepresented the statements to continue the argument.

As to the poster who was surprised about colleges having coed bathrooms, it really depends on the college. Some separate girls and boys by building, some by floor, some just by room which is how it was at the university I attended. One year, we actually voted on whether we should designate one of the floor bathrooms for girls and one for boys or keep them coed. We voted to separate, and guess what, most of those voting for separate were girls

 

[robinb]

Just curios where you're coming from. It seems you don't have much insight into an adolescent girl's life. Maybe you're the one bringing a 10 yo son into the women's bathroom?

LMAO .... Peter Fan DOES have a 10-year old son and no daughters. What a shock!

 

[Peter Fan]

LMAO .... Peter Fan DOES have a 10-year old son and no daughters. What a shock!

Always assuming. Ha ha

 

[ccgirl]

What the heck happened here?

To those wondering, the OP has come back and posted she has decided to leave her DD12 while she goes on the ride. Her DD is more than okay with it. She will have a cell phone with her.

 

[Peter Fan]

Always assuming. Ha ha

Lmao!

 

[kristenm514]

Loud noises!

 

[robinb]

Always assuming. Ha ha

202 posts so far and no mention of a daughter but you mention a son multiple times .

Lmao!

It's so nice that you can laugh at yourself!

 

[skater]

In the bathroom I could care less about a boy being in there as far my own privacy goes. It doesn't make me uncomfortable for a preteen boy to be in the bathroom. The reason I don't like it is because I can't stand overprotective parents, it's my biggest pet peeve in life! Every time I see or hear overprotective parents it makes my skin crawl! I think they are ridiculous. And I have every right to find them irritating just as anyone has a right to have a personal pet peeve about anything. So when you drag your 10 year old in the ladies room I won't be uncomfortable but I will think YOU are stupid and roll my eyes!

And that's certainly your right to feel that way. Its subjective of course (overprotective is defined differently by different people), but its your right to feel that way.

 

[skater]

I will send him in to go to the bathroom in the men's room and wait by the door. Heck, he just turned 5 and yells when I try to take him in the girls room that he is not a girl. Once he is able to wipe his butt himself, I plan on letting him use the correct gender bathrooms.

Gotcha! Everybody's different.

 

[Peter Fan]

202 posts so far and no mention of a daughter but you mention a son multiple times .

It's so nice that you can laugh at yourself!

Never mentioned I have a mother either doesn't mean I don't have one.

 

[North of Mouse]

Exactly you are in a stall. Nobody is peeking through the cracks. Get over yourself!

Ummmm, 202 posts at this point, and a lot of them on this thread -
maybe Melodious is right!!

I, for one, do not like to see any boy in the women's restroom beyond about 5 years (even some that age bother me). That's why they make companion restrooms if there is a need to bring the opposite sex child in with them, right?? I sure would be *very* uncomfortable if there was a 10 yr up boy in there

 

[Minnesota!]

In a heartbeat. Hell, I would do it now - let my 8 year old son wait in a gift shop. It all depends on the kids maturity, I guess, but I would assume at 12 the majority of kids could handle waiting in a gift shop for 20-30 minutes.

 

[Peter Fan]

Ummmm, 202 posts at this point, and a lot of them on this thread -
maybe Melodious is right!!

I, for one, do not like to see any boy in the women's restroom beyond about 5 years (even some that age bother me). That's why they make companion restrooms if there is a need to bring the opposite sex child in with them, right?? I sure would be *very* uncomfortable if there was a 10 yr up boy in there

But it doesn't matter what you think

 

[Robbi]

lol 42. Then it's daddy who can't let his 10 year old daughter out of his sight and doesn't want them in the mens room so he goes with her in the ladies room and we shouldn't feel uncomfortable and we simply explain why there is a grown man in the ladies bathroom.

It's called any thing is ok as long as my needs are met.

Well, I'd hesitate to bring my 37 yo into the ladies room but I'm torn about my 29 yo. He is engaged and getting married in March. Do you think I could risk letting him into the men's room?
wanted to add, I'm just joking, of course.

 

[Mom2six]

I could see some of this paranoia about little boys looking into cracks in the stalls at some malls or places...but most of the bathrooms I used at WDW were huge. Standing in the entrance way you would practically have to be superman to see into those stalls!

So, to the pp who lets her 5 year old son use the mens room - are you saying that you are comfortable leaving your 5 year old child standing out in the crowds of WDW all alone? This thread is a little disturbing. The average 5, 6, 7, 8, and even 9 year old boy is not really interested in sex and is not trying to get a look at teenager girls through the crack of a stall door.

This thread is pretty funny, all in all. We have the people who won't leave a teenager alone in a public gift shop and the people leaving kindergardeners alone in the park. The huge differences are astounding.

 

[DisneyFan2013]

Let me just say that my mom got upset with me for going to Epcot alone at night and I am over 25!

I don't have any kids myself yet, but I wouldn't leave a 12 year old alone just because I know I'd never forgive myself if something happened to him/her. With daughters, I'd probably worry about them forever (like my mom worries about me), but I could probably leave my sons alone around age 15-16, but I still wouldn't leave them for long.