This is going to sound really strange...how old is too old?

[DVC Sadie]

I do understand what you must have been feeling having co-workers, neighbors and family at the party. You have every right to have been upset (humiliated) in my opinion.

Peeing in the bushes is just inappropriate in any situation.

 

[LukenDC]

I think that it's inappropriate for kids to be naked in public at ANY age.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I also think that he should have left his underwear on at someone elses house.

 

[BabyTigger99]

Nekkid on a slip 'n' slide? OUCH!!!

 

[HaleyB]

Regardless of what anyone else thinks, it was your home. You asked her to cover him up. It was extreamly rude for her to respond to you the way she did. I would have been very upset if someone spoke to me like that at my own home.

I think we pretty much never let our kids run around without clothing except for at home. Not even at Grandma's. The only exception is around my best friends kids, we used to throw them all in the tub together on nights we were at each others houses, I think we stopped doing that around 4 or so.

 

[Divamomto3]

I've never been one to let my kids go around naked anywhere. I would have let him go in his underwear at the least, if not borrow your girl's shorts. It used to make me (and my boys) uncomfortable when my SIL used to let her girls walk around topless at around ages 3-5 after swimming or in the pool or whatever. I know that they don't have ****ies, but I'd be putting the bikini top on my 18 month old daughter for crying out loud. But that's just me. To each their own I guess, but private parts hanging out at a party, even he were 2 is totally unacceptable.

 

[EEYOREMAMA]

He's not a baby anymore in my book, he's almost 5!!!! Am I way off here or was this entirely inappropriate?

OMG I have 2 boys and that is not appropriate at all. I don't see any rational for a mother to be okay with this. It's not only the naked ick factor, it's the germs. Peeing is public is not acceptable and you're never too yound to learn that life lesson. Spreading germs coming down the slide do I need to say more. In this day and age, one should try to keep one's germs to themselves. This is not a sharing lesson a child should be taught. Lastly, it is not right to assume that this behavior is okay with everyone around you. There are acceptable social behaviors and in my book, this wasn't it.

You're target aim on this one was a bullseye.

 

[puffkin]

I refuse to allow my son who is 4 months old to be naked in public. I won't even let him just be in his diaper. He always has on clothes appropriate for the situation and weather.

At home I can see a kid running around naked if they are just getting in/out of a bath or getting dressed or somehting like that....but after 2 or 3 I think it is even inappropriate at home.

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

We had a small picnic at my Dsis's house yesterday. My Dnephew (2.5) of other Dsis was running around naked, (okay not naked he had on crocs and a spiderman swim mask ). The swim trunks came off and apparently the pool aggravated the rash he had down there and he felt better naked. Nobody minded but it was ONLY family. He also knew enough to tell my Dsis that he had to go potty. He went to the bathroom in the house.
Even yesterday, I was thinking that he wasn't going to be able to get away with being naked much longer.

You are not wrong to ask to have him covered if you are uncomfortable. And only the dog gets to pee in the bushes!

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

I wouldn't even let a newborn be naked in public for longer than it takes to change a diaper. You never know what kind of crazies are out there.

 

[MAKmom]

I think any age at a PARTY is too old. My DD 9 & 11 would have been very uncomfortable! His underware would have been fine.

 

[daisyduck123]

IMO, once they're out of diapers, they are too old. We never let our son do it anyway, even as a toddler. There were one or two times when we let him walk around diaper-free for 10 minutes or so - just to give his bottom an "airing out".

Shouldn't little boys keep their "stuff" covered & protected?? I would think it would REALLY hurt if he fell down, flipped over on his front on the slip n slide, slid over a rock, or whatever.

 

[Beth76]

Definitely too old. Four-and-a-half still a baby? My two-year-old is no longer a baby. Besides, I can't imagine it's very safe for a boy to slip-n-sliding naked.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

I guess it would depend on the parent, but if you felt uncomfortable, she should've made him cover up his twig-n-berries.

As far as how old is too old to be running about naked? I think once they are school age, they should no longer be running naked anywhere..not at home, not in public.

Although that doesn't seem to stop some parents. We were driving down a street in our neighborhood the other day and saw a group of boys (probably in the 5-6 age range) running around in capes and undies with various superheroes (and in one case, Darth Maul ).

TOV

 

[disykat]

I also think it's too old and agree the peeing in the bushes is disgusting. Even at one or two I would have told them that they're not supposed to do that, and at 4 1/2 they'd be in trouble because they should know better.

Two points. Obviously they've had this issue before. Why on earth would a 4 year old be saying "she's making me feel bad about being naked?" Secondly, she was very rude to refuse to cover him up in your home. I would not be inviting her to anymore parties where there is anyone other than family there - you shouldn't have to be worried about her behavior in front of your friends and coworkers.

 

[Cool-Beans]

I guess it would depend on the parent, but if you felt uncomfortable, she should've made him cover up his twig-n-berries.

As far as how old is too old to be running about naked? I think once they are school age, they should no longer be running naked anywhere..not at home, not in public.

Although that doesn't seem to stop some parents. We were driving down a street in our neighborhood the other day and saw a group of boys (probably in the 5-6 age range) running around in capes and undies with various superheroes (and in one case, Darth Maul ).

TOV

Two of my teenage boys and a bunch of their doofus friends ran all the way around the house in their underwear when there was about a foot of snow on the ground and more falling.

I never got a good answer as to WHY. (Because my kids are all nuts. Inherited from DH.)

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

any age is too old in my book. My children are always clothed and after a bath it's straight to their room and into clothing. i would have been apalled and embaressed as well OP! i can't believe that!! as far s peeing in the bushes, well i would have said something!

 

[katerkat]

My son was naked last night - we let him get too close to a lake and he ran right in, fully clothed. I wasn't about to put him in the car with a dripping diaper so he was stripped in the parking lot, driven naked the two minutes to his aunt's, carried inside naked, rinsed of sand naked, then dressed again. And Mommy learned to always pack swim trunks and an extra diaper/outfit because little boys are not to be kept from water.

 

[Dakota_Lynn]

The naked kid would not have offended me but the peeing in the bushes; now that is just obnoxious.

 

[SunFloridaDisney]

How old is too old? Younger than the big kids still riding in strollers around the World....