AITAH for not letting my daughter change in the locker room?
The user, a 37-year-old woman, attended her nephew's pool birthday party with her 5-year-old daughter and her parents. They all traveled to the indoor pool at the park district together.
The user had her daughter wear her swimsuit to the event, planning for her to change clothes afterward. After the party, when they went to the locker room, the user saw two 10-year-old boys changing with their mother inside.
The user immediately stopped her daughter from entering and told her parents that her daughter might have to wait to dry off and go home in her swimsuit to avoid changing in front of older boys.
As more mothers brought older boys into the changing area, the user began to doubt her reaction, wondering if her feelings about older boys changing near younger children of the opposite s*x were justified.
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The user is facing a dilemma regarding appropriate boundaries and privacy standards in a shared public changing space.
Her concern centers on protecting her young daughter from seeing older boys changing, contrasting with the practical reality of the park district's facilities and potentially differing community norms about changing privacy for pre-teen boys.
The core question is whether the user was right to prevent her daughter from using the locker room due to the presence of older boys changing, or if this reaction was an overstep based on her personal comfort level.
Readers must weigh the desire for privacy for young children against the expected usage of public facilities.
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