https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 26 May 2026 09:14:53 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-let-your-lo-run-around-naked-at-a-playground-with-a-water-feature#post-160666 Wed, 16 May 2012 16:39:04 +0000 Honeybee 160666@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Lol, I was totally thinking about this thread today! I took DD to the beach, and we'd only been there maybe 5 minutes when another family showed up. The kids were just dressed in regular clothes, but they wanted to get in the water, so their mom just stripped them naked! The boy was probably 4-ish, and the girl was around 2.5, and I felt like such a prude for being completely freaked out that this lady just let her kids run around naked on the beach. :/ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-let-your-lo-run-around-naked-at-a-playground-with-a-water-feature#post-158562 Mon, 14 May 2012 20:56:39 +0000 mrs. wagon 158562@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm with everyone else. In private, maybe. But in a public place? Too many perverts in the world now. I even get uncomfortable when there's a little girl running around topless. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-let-your-lo-run-around-naked-at-a-playground-with-a-water-feature#post-158532 Mon, 14 May 2012 20:19:34 +0000 littlebug 158532@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In our private, fenced-in backyard, sure. At a public park, no way. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-let-your-lo-run-around-naked-at-a-playground-with-a-water-feature#post-158506 Mon, 14 May 2012 19:52:22 +0000 hilsy85 158506@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. Wouldn't be comfortable with that, plus if they go to the bathroom, I would feel really bad about that, it being a public place and all. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-let-your-lo-run-around-naked-at-a-playground-with-a-water-feature#post-158497 Mon, 14 May 2012 19:40:59 +0000 chopsuey 158497@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would let my LO run naked and free if we were in our backyard, but not in public. Pedophiles love lurking around popular kiddie areas. -.- </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-let-your-lo-run-around-naked-at-a-playground-with-a-water-feature#post-158491 Mon, 14 May 2012 19:37:25 +0000 heffalump 158491@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. First of all I'd be scared if she tripped and fell, I'd like something covering her tushy to keep it a little safer. And I don't think other people want to see my LO naked, so I keep clothes on her. And if they do want to see her naked.... even a better reason to keep clothes on her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-let-your-lo-run-around-naked-at-a-playground-with-a-water-feature#post-158489 Mon, 14 May 2012 19:35:39 +0000 Andrea 158489@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No way, that is too weird, especially for NYC. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-let-your-lo-run-around-naked-at-a-playground-with-a-water-feature#post-158487 Mon, 14 May 2012 19:34:25 +0000 mrs. bird 158487@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With friends &amp; family I'd let 'em be naked. Out in public I'd leave a diaper on. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-let-your-lo-run-around-naked-at-a-playground-with-a-water-feature#post-158349 Mon, 14 May 2012 18:00:34 +0000 banana 158349@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, I wouldn't feel comfortable having my kids run around naked in public. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-let-your-lo-run-around-naked-at-a-playground-with-a-water-feature#post-158348 Mon, 14 May 2012 17:56:26 +0000 cyneswith 158348@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In my backyard, sure. In public, or even my front yard, no way. It's hard enough teaching kids to keep their clothes on even when there aren't exceptions to the rule. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-let-your-lo-run-around-naked-at-a-playground-with-a-water-feature#post-158346 Mon, 14 May 2012 17:47:46 +0000 Rubies 158346@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would NEVER let my kid run around naked in public. EVER. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-let-your-lo-run-around-naked-at-a-playground-with-a-water-feature#post-158327 Mon, 14 May 2012 17:24:44 +0000 Mrs. Sunglasses 158327@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Bathing suits. Hello?! If not just underware.<br /> I wouldn't do it either. In my backyard sure, in a public area no. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-let-your-lo-run-around-naked-at-a-playground-with-a-water-feature#post-158321 Mon, 14 May 2012 17:18:05 +0000 Honeybee 158321@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were in germany for our honeymoon, we had a similar experience. We were walking around the cute little resort town we were staying in and came upon two little girls (maybe 5 and 7?) stark naked, playing in this cute little pond with a fountain. On the one hand, their parents were right there; on the hand, both my husband and I felt really uncomfortable and immediately walked away. :/ </p> <p>If we were in another country with different standards on nudity and children, we might let the kids go without clothes. But not in America. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-let-your-lo-run-around-naked-at-a-playground-with-a-water-feature#post-158314 Mon, 14 May 2012 17:10:31 +0000 HabesBabe 158314@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would be OK if we were at home, but in a public place, I would put a diaper or some sort of bottoms on. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-let-your-lo-run-around-naked-at-a-playground-with-a-water-feature#post-158297 Mon, 14 May 2012 16:57:12 +0000 Mrsbells 158297@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, in this day and age with so many child sex offenders a naked child is just a s provocative to some as a naked adult.<br /> When I was a kid it was different but times have changed </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-let-your-lo-run-around-naked-at-a-playground-with-a-water-feature#post-158289 Mon, 14 May 2012 16:51:23 +0000 LuLu Mom 158289@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, at least have a diaper on! There are too many sick people out there who take the innocence of children's fun and make it into a perverted scene. However, I would let my child swim naked at my parent's house, which is secluded in the country if we didn't have a suit for them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-let-your-lo-run-around-naked-at-a-playground-with-a-water-feature#post-158279 Mon, 14 May 2012 16:44:50 +0000 BoogieBea 158279@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our LOs are covered up as much as possible to protect from the sun. But I wouldn't have them completely naked even if it's indoors. I wouldn't want LO to think it's okay to run around naked in public. I've only seen little girls that are completely naked at water parks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-let-your-lo-run-around-naked-at-a-playground-with-a-water-feature#post-158275 Mon, 14 May 2012 16:43:12 +0000 mediagirl 158275@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd make sure she kept her diaper or undies on. I'm not comfortable around naked children in public. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-let-your-lo-run-around-naked-at-a-playground-with-a-water-feature#post-158272 Mon, 14 May 2012 16:40:46 +0000 Shimmer 158272@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Personally, no. There are too many sickos out there! I might allow it in our backyard, but even then it's silly if I have bathing suits in the house! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-let-your-lo-run-around-naked-at-a-playground-with-a-water-feature#post-158269 Mon, 14 May 2012 16:37:35 +0000 DillonLion 158269@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, because I don't want any perverts looking at my child's naked body. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-let-your-lo-run-around-naked-at-a-playground-with-a-water-feature#post-158267 Mon, 14 May 2012 16:35:10 +0000 mrbee 158267@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We took the whole family to a local playground yesterday with a "water feature": basically fake geysers, water sprays, little lake areas, etc. It was awesome, and Charlie had the time of his life! (Olive slept the whole time.)</p> <p>While we were there, I saw a little girl (maybe 3 years old) who was having the time of her life in the water too. She stood out because it was just her and the water.. her clothes and diaper were somewhere else I guess. She was the only one there that was stark naked.</p> <p>I immediately had two reactions:</p> <p>1) I felt like I could be arrested just for witnessing child nudity. I guess that's a sad commentary on how things are these days. But in any case, I quickly looked away and shifted my back to the little girl and her father (who was standing right next to her).</p> <p>2) In the Philippines (where my parents live in a remote beach village), there is an endless supply of crushing poverty and it is much more common to see kids with no clothes on at all. If there was a free water feature at a local playground, half the kids in the village would be there completely naked. My second reaction was to think how natural it is to be naked while enjoying cold water under a blistering hot sun.</p> <p>I wasn't sure how to reconcile these two reactions. My American side thought the father shouldn't let his 3yo daughter be naked in front of hundreds of other people. But my immigrant side thought that it wasn't that big a deal... that this was more of an American prude thing than anything else.</p> <p>What do you think: would you let your LO run around naked at a playground with a water feature? Do you think kids should be able to be naked in public more, or does America have it right? </p>