Peeing in private

When is it time to stop letting my son see me naked? When he suddenly wants to. Today, I was in my bedroom changing into my bathing suit so we could go for an afternoon swim, when Colter came in the room. He looked absolutely giddy about having walked in on me with a naked chest. I quickly covered it up and headed to the bathroom to change in private, with some help from my husband. Colter did his best to persuade us that it was ok for him to see, which is how I knew, after 7 years, that it wasn't. Frankly, I don't think he'd ever noticed my nakedness before or cared. The fact that he did was a definite sign. And it was the end of a new double standard. A week earlier, I was washing my face when he came in the bathroom and said, "Get out." After all those years of wiping his ass, and oohing and aaahing over every potty accomplishment, he suddenly wanted privacy to pee. I can only hope he'll finally extend me the same courtesy.

Comments

[Terry]

When that time came, I started locking the bedroom door. LOL@

[sonia]

I have a daughter so this isn't a problem for me. I would say since he seems to know what privacy is now, it would be time to grant him that as well as explain that your privacy should be returned.

Not too long ago, I had to enforce the "knock on the bedroom door before entering" rule.