At what age did you let your children use public bathrooms themselves (without you going in as well) ?

Curious what age is appropriate. I still would take my 5 year old DS with me in the women's room I do know at some point soon he will need to go on his own soon.

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My kids are both still very young. Honestly, it will be a very long time before I would even consider letting them do that. I would know where all the single toilet bathrooms were everywhere go. This is something that really makes me nervous

At what age did you let your children use public bathrooms themselves (without you going in as well) ?

my kids 4........ its going to be a long time...... I just heard on the news theres a young guy approaching kids in Nassau.

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My DS is 6 and it depends where we are. I would make him use te ladies room with me at an amusement park, but at a all restaurant I would let him use the men's room and just wait right outside.

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My son is 5 1/2 and I still take him to the bathroom with me in crowded type places. I try to find family style rest rooms. If that is not an option, or it is a small restaurant, I have stood outside the door while he went to the men's room. I started doing that this year - a couple of months ago.

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In this day and age, I would not let my child go in alone until they are way older than 5-6. There are too many creepos out there!

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At what age did you let your children use public bathrooms themselves (without you going in as well) ?

My DD is 3.5. If it's a single bathroom, she goes in by herself. I will wait right outside the door, unless our table is literally feet from the bathroom where I can watch. Otherwise I take her and she'll just use the stall by herself.

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My older girls are 7.5 and 6 (next month!). We go out to eat frequently and I always go in the bathroom with them, but not into the actual stall anymore.

I'm sure my answer will change a bit when my son is that age. If he and I were alone without DH, I'd most likely walk him to the men's room and wait outside. I think I recall my nephew using the bathroom entirely alone around age 8 or 9? Again, not at Yankee Stadium, but at a restaurant.

At what age did you let your children use public bathrooms themselves (without you going in as well) ?

This again? Lol. There is no visible nakedness going on in the ladies room, so take them in as long as you feel comfortable. I am finding more and more places offer companion or family restrooms which is nice.

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She’ll be with me for all public bathrooms with stalls, period. End of story. Maybe when she’s in middle school I’ll reconsider. LOL But she’s 4 so we’ll see…

I think soon though she’ll get to be out of that stage where I have to be in the stall with her. She asked me last weekend to give her ‘privacy’, so I stood outside the stall. I think mostly its just a thing of getting up on the seat (she’s petite) that’s holding her back. She can get up there but is afraid to get her pants wet coming back down.