If both you and your children are comfortable with you being naked in front of them, there isn’t anything “inherently wrong with that at all,” said Avital Norman Nathman, who says her 8-year-old son is used to seeing her and her husband naked on occasion when they are getting dressed or in the shower. ‘Brutally Honest’: What if you don’t like your kids’ friends?Ī common theme I heard from parents is comfort. “So when it is time for me to undress, I tell whichever of my kids is in my room talking to me, that I plan to do so and they have the option to leave.” Not because we are uncomfortable, but because they may be,” said Woods, a real estate agent in New Milford, Connecticut. “As they get older, my husband is more discreet around our daughters and I am more discreet around our son. They have also never hidden their bodies from their kids, she said. Rhonda Woods, a mother of three, says ever since her children, now 20, 13 and 13, were little, she and her husband have been teaching them not to be ashamed of their bodies. In conversations over email with mothers and fathers across the country and in Canada, it’s clear there is no “one size fits all’” approach to the questions of whether it’s OK to be naked in front of your kids and if there’s an age when it’s no longer OK. ‘Brutally Honest’: When is it OK to leave your teen home alone overnight? I don’t want them to think there is anything wrong with my body or theirs.Īnd when they ask hilarious questions such as “Mom, why do your boobs hang?,” I can’t help but laugh and use the opportunity as a chance to tell them my body has changed over time and theirs will, too. But I don’t cover up around my daughters, 7 and 8, when I’m getting dressed or in the bathroom, either. He signed up for it, right? My kids certainly didn’t.Ī lifetime of body image issues means I’m not one to walk around naked at home. I joke that the only person who should have to see me naked is my husband. I’m already feeling somewhat tense as I type this. Let me say at the start that there is no way around the topic of nakedness in front of your children without getting personal and slightly uncomfortable.
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