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more about #isawyournanny more comments → Ms. Stewbert has left the building (suck it Gawker): Lil Stewbert never had a naked phase. I kept waiting for it and I remember worrying that I had somehow created a little Alex P Keaton. more » ladyM2000: This reminds me of a story I read once -- a Japanese book called "Totto-chan". (I forget the name of the author -- Tetsuko something?) Anyway, it's a ... more » MissyMcCLung: I got to this post late because I had to put my two little nudists to bed. The hard part for me in dealing with naked kids is not teaching them when ... more » Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini: if i have kids, I swear to allow them to be little jay birds for as long as they please. I don't want them to ever feel demonization of their bodies o... more » LawFairy: Although Europe has a host of its own problems when it comes to sex, on this they are right on. It pisses me off how much we Americans freak out abou... more » Zwitter: I used to love baths solely because bathing was prefaced by taking off all your clothes -- ergo I would get naked, then dash away from the tub, making... more » amowls: People equate nakedness with sex. The reason people have a problem with seeing naked kids in public is the same reason why people have a problem seein... more » angelheadedhipster: This reminds me of the incident in "Cherry" when young Mary Karr rides her bike around her neighborhood when she's 10-ish. Her mom is cool with it, ev... more » Elizabth_Bennet: Speaking of sexualizing children, I have a friend, great mom, great person, who still creeps me out by referring to her 1 year old baby girl as "sexy"... more » Madlenka: In contrast to most of the commenters so far, I was a veritable never-nude as a child. I didn't even like bathing without a swimsuit on. A couple of... more » s: I see this quite often with children's bathing suits. At some point, the kids move from swim diapers to swim trunks and the girls move into one pieces... more » hollygirl: For me it is simple: context. A friend of mine was carrying her 3 year old not-yet-trained daughter around the table during a dinner party- sorry- I d... more » Elaken: My family has always been pretty relaxed when it comes to nudity. My mom's favorite picture is us three girl sitting on top of a car, totally naked e... more » happygardeningmama: I think adults struggling with toddler and preschooler nudity have some internal things to resolve--be they the predatory type or the type who are com... more » Casquivana: "there's a fine line between letting a child express his freedom and feel no Genesis-style shame in nudity, and letting him think he makes the rules."... more » -
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Naked Kids Polarize Clothed Adults
Anyone who's lived on my parents' block for more than 21 years remembers my brother naked. For the first four years of his life, he wore clothes only under extreme duress. I didn't realize this was controversial.
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