sunnyday123
<font color=blue>Someone hand me my drool towel<br
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- Sep 2, 2007
I will never forget a terrible story from a California State Park campground/beach from 1998/2000ish on the news. An aunt took her 10yr old nephew to the mens bathroom and stood outside waiting. He never came out. When they went in and found him, he had been stabbed by an obviously unstable teen and ultimately died.
This story in the back of my mind makes me anxious about letting my 8 yr old go alone into men's bathrooms. He's at the age that going into the women's really bothers him. Fortunately, my husband can often be with him and many places (including WDW) have "Family Bathrooms" or "Companion Bathrooms" that are okay for both genders. I'm "careful" not to be too over-protective and give him independence in other environments, not the public mens bathrooms.
I've heard some moms have their sons count out loud while they're in there and know if the counting stops, something is wrong.
That is truly horrible. I know I have told my XH so many horror stories about kids going into bathrooms alone I am suprised he takes our DD out in public......however, about 3 years ago they were at Home Depot and of course being a kid and having to hit every bathroom in every store on the East Coast, she had to go. He picked her up and covered her eyes ( it's really kinda funny to see him do this ) and started to walk into the men's bathroom with her. ( I have told him numerous times I would really rather her see that then be in danger ) An employee yelled at him, "hey, you can't take her in there!" My ex is a pretty big guy, and I really thought I was the only one with the bazumbas to stand up to him. He turned around, didn't say a word, and walked right into the womens bathroom with her. By the time DD was done, the manager had just arrived. ( he was about 5'2") when they saw him come out, they just said, "um, sir..is everything ok?" I laughed for months every time I went in there.