DisneyOma
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- Jul 27, 2015
Well - years ago - we (me and my two young daughters) were in the bathroom that used to be in Fantasy Land (by Peter Pan). I was helping my youngest to wash her hands while her sister washed her own hands. A woman came out of the stall, shoved my older daughter aside and proceeded to start washing her hands. I means - she SHOVED HER. That led to what is called to this day in my family as - THE ALTERCATION.
Do not let a child that young go into a bathroom at a theme park alone.
Edited to add the daughter who was shoved was 7 at the time.
Oh my, your daughter was shoved. Bet it wasn't the first time, nor the last. People get shoved everywhere - subway, lines at school, the mall... Are you going to follow her around forever, handling situations for her? And what difference does it make, as you were there when she got shoved in the first place?
I'm not a parent myself, but I'd be concerned about other people being rude to your child. There are crazy people out there, sadly.
people are rude - so what? You shouldn't shelter kids from rude. They need to learn to deal with it, ignore it, etc. See the above.
Another no vote - take her into the mens room with you.
I'm not concerned about her safety, but I am concerned about her just physically being able to do everything in the bathroom. Unless she's very tall for her age, she may have trouble reaching the soap and towels and in AK may have trouble opening the door.
Of course, almost always there will be a good samaritan there to help her, but why put her in that situation.
- signed, mom still mildly scarred from the time her 6 year old son got stuck in a chick fil a bathroom because he couldn't open the door himself.
WDW has some of the best bathrooms for kids - lower sinks, no outside doors, just a bend in the passage. I do get the AK door issue - but people go in and out a lot there.
Now then, others can flame me all they like, but this current US trend of taking children into crowded opposite-gender restrooms until they reach puberty is bizarrely paranoid. If a child is in a regular school every day, he or she knows the rules about public restrooms.
I think worrying about gender bathrooms is paranoid, myself. If an adult is with the child, what is going to happen? All you see in the men's bathroom are the backsides of pants, and maybe a flash of a private part - but that's if you let the kids wander over to the urinals. Just go straight to a stall or turn the kids aside if you have to wait.