CaraMiaBelle
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IMO 8 years old and up. To put that in perspective that is a 4th grader.
Um. That would actually be 2nd or 3rd grade at the oldest.
IMO 8 years old and up. To put that in perspective that is a 4th grader.
I am sure you had a bad experience and I apologize that you were traumatized by a badly behaved 9 year old boy. However, the majority of little boys in the restroom are not running around wanting to watch you pee!
Um. That would actually be 2nd or 3rd grade at the oldest.
And the majority of people are not out to harm your child either. Yet people are expecting others to accommodate their need to totally prevent that from happening, yet can't seem to find a way to totally prevent their child from peeping.
IMO 8 years old and up. To put that in perspective that is a 4th grader.
Cara's right. Kindergarten starts at 5 (or 6 if you held your son back for social/maturity reasons) so an 8 year old would be in 2nd or 3rd grade.Um. That would actually be 2nd or 3rd grade at the oldest.
Um, not here.
Um, not here.
Ditto. I deserved not to have the badly brought up 9 year old pervert peeping at me because his incompetent and inconsiderate mother left him running around unattended in the ladies room. Oh, the tantrum she threw when I yelled at her little peeping tom was epic. Apparently she could not fathom why I might not want her nasty offspring staring at my privates.
It is not "silly" to expect a fundamental level of privacy in a single-gender restroom.
I'm being realistic, the little jerk was 9 and, as stated above, his mother threw a hissy over me yelling when I caught him peeking into my stall.
An the meltdown my former foster daughter would have had upon seeing and older boy in the woman's room would probably be equal to if not worse than your sons. But she's a girl so she doesn't matter in this equation.
I have a question. I don't know how to ask this I don't want to offend anyone. (reading some of these post, I'm thinking offending is off the table.) but.............
are you a male or a female? just wondering because of the reminding him of urinal etiquette..
How many 6 year old boys are running around peeking in stalls and why would that bother you anymore than a strange little girl looking in your stall. ...
It may also be an opportunity to teach your daughters that the world is really not paying attention to them. ...
I've had a boy peek at me at Disney. I wacked the door and it hit him in the nose. His mother was none to happy. Too bad I told her I control her child.
IMO 8 years old and up. To put that in perspective that is a 4th grader.
I am sure you had a bad experience and I apologize that you were traumatized by a badly behaved 9 year old boy. However, the majority of little boys in the restroom are not running around wanting to watch you pee...and you have not explained to me how a little boy being rude is any different than a little girl being rude. I don't think that little children should be peeking at people in stalls, if they are girls or boys! However, I think people who are afraid of this happening are being paranoid! This thread did not begin as a thread about kids being rude in bathrooms - it is a thread about whether or not to take a little boy into the women's room or leave him out in the park alone.
One incident has nothing to do with all children. We really can't ban children from restrooms after all!
Don't kids start kindergarten at age 5? 6 at the latest for the older ones?
Hmmm ... I imagined that she whacked it to scare the boy back from his peeping position. A closed door does not move much so he must have been very close to it to be hit by it. If that's what happened, I wouldn't go as far as to say it was an assault. I do agree with you on her wording.I would have had you arrested. There would be no tantrum, there would simply be calling the police. I cannot believe you just admitted to having assaulted a child.
Was she in the stall next to you? Bet you he was looking FOR HER. He had no interest in you. And he got slammed in the face with a door for it. I'd be ashamed for such an action. While I was sitting in jail.
I would have had you arrested. There would be no tantrum, there would simply be calling the police. I cannot believe you just admitted to having assaulted a child.
Was she in the stall next to you? Bet you he was looking FOR HER. He had no interest in you. And he got slammed in the face with a door for it. I'd be ashamed for such an action. While I was sitting in jail.
So if that boy did, then *there's something going on with him*. It MEANS he's got some issues happening. That means it's probably best that he's with his parent while in the bathroom. Instead of being evil about him and calling him pervert and jerk, you might have had a talk with his mom instead of freaking out.
Where is here because in the US, Kindergarten starts at 5 (most states have a cut off month. If you child is not 5 by August, by September, or by October. A few have a later month but not many). 1st grade = 6 2nd grade = 7 3rd grade = 8. However, most kids will have a birthday and turn the next age that year. So if you have an October birthday in a state that has a cut off month of August of September, then in October of the year you are in kindergarten you will turn 6. Then two months into 1st grade you will turn 7. Two months into 2nd grade you will turn 8.
I think that's because your cut off is Dec 1. The cut off here in WI is Sept 1 (the start of school) so there are very few children who are actually 4 when when they start Kindergarten and they have to get special permission. My DD's birthday is in mid-August so she just squeaked in under the wire. A boy on our block was born the week after her and, while he was eligible to start Kindergarten with my DD, his family held him back a year (as is very common in our area for boys). So, my DD was just 7 when she started 2nd grade and this boy was just 8 when we started 2nd grade.Okay, I am a parent of 3 kids so I do know how it works and just so you know not every single district follows the rules yours does. I couldnt imagine having an 8 year old in 2nd grade
Here the cut-off is Dec.1 so any 4 year old who will be 5 by December 1st starts Kindergarten the current Sept. (unless of course parents choose to hold them for a year). And yes I do know this for a fact since my own children started K at 4. My now 9 year old will start 5th grade this Sept, just like his brother when he was 5th. Last year he was 8 and about to start 4th. So, like I said an 8 year old is a 4th grader
K 4/5
1st 5/6
2nd 6/7
3rd 7/8
4th 8/9 and so on.................................................
Hmmm ... I imagined that she whacked it to scare the boy back from his peeping position. A closed door does not move much so he must have been very close to it to be hit by it. If that's what happened, I wouldn't go as far as to say it was an assault. I do agree with you on her wording.
I think that's because your cut off is Dec 1. The cut off here in WI is Sept 1 (the start of school) so there are very few children who are actually 4 when when they start Kindergarten and they have to get special permission. My DD's birthday is in mid-August so she just squeaked in under the wire. A boy on our block was born the week after her and while he was eligible to start Kindergarten with my DD his family held him back a year (as is very common in our area for boys). So, my DD was just 8 when she started 3rd grade and this boy was just 9 when we started 3rd grade.
Exactly. For it to have affected him at all he had to have been touching it. Really MOM should have been taking care of her child by actually monitoring him. Since that is the whole stinking big deal.