Nudity among Family

My kids did the normal type of nakedness when they were wee little things. Especially when a diaper is the easiest outfit to leave them in on a warm day.
Now my answer to those first three would be 'no'.

 

We have discussed this. Right now, Little Levite is between 1 1/2 and 2, so we both feel OK about being naked in front of him. When he turns two, we're both going to start phasing out full nudity in front of him, with the idea that it no longer ever happen after he's three. We're fine with being on our underwear, or me being shirtless, but we both think full nudity should cease after age three. If it happened by accident, we wouldn't have a wiggins or anything, but we will try not to be casually nude in front of him. We're just not nudists in that way. Right now, he doesn't get to run around naked because he needs a diaper. Once he's toilet trained, if he wants to spend some time naked, he can do that if he feels comfortable with it, as long as it's just us (not when guests are over, or in public, etc.)-- we don't want him to be ashamed, just socially appropriate.

As for my parents, they were never naked in front of me. I sometimes wonder if they were ever actually naked in front of each other.... Mrs. Levite's parents, same thing.

 

I have 3 little girls and I have become very adept (or so I think, maybe I should ask if I am really as slick as I think I am) at not exposing myself to them, while staying casual about it.
I have even figured out how to go from a cycling jersey and bibs to regular clothing without exposing my boy parts.
Ours love to run around naked. Ages 6 and 4. Especially when we go swimming, or around bath time at home. No biggie and I am glad they enjoy it so.

 

2 boys 8 and 10 in our place - the bathroom doors (theirs and ours) are rarely closed, the boys will often run from shower to downstairs carrying the pyjamas so they can dress in front of the heater. I think you just need to relax and do what you want. I'm with Martian, it isn't going to kill kids to see nudity. I don't go out of my way to take my pants off, but I'm hardly worried about them walking in.

 

We are very modest around our house, and our families of origin were the same way.

 

When my kids were younger, clothing was optional in the house. As my daughter got older (age 3) it was no longer an option for me. My wife, however, still stays naked -- even around my son.

I'm less comfortable with it, I guess.

Both kids, until they were about 4 could not be kept in clothes during the summer.

 

As a red-blooded American male, nudity always has sexual connotations and thus I am only naked around my current sex partner.

My parents were never naked around me and I was glad. And I'm pretty sure most people feel that way about their parents.

Don't recall ever being instructed to don pants but I'm of the Mark Twain philosophy*: You need 'em to be taken seriously.

If you're without crotch-covering, it's either post shower or flirting. Sitting around naked-naked for no reason is weird.

From a manners perspective and a hygiene perspective. The logic being "Hey, don't rub your butthole on my couch."

I will never have children so it won't be an issue but I wouldn't be naked around them purely for safety reasons.

It's bad enough they're at crotch levels with all their knees and elbows, ready to pommel my junk.

After seeing what children do to dogs and cats, I refuse to allow them to yank my tail.

* "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society."​

 

My parents were never really overtly naked in front of us. Even now. But, my brother showered with my dad until he was 6 or so because he has severe ADHD and couldn't bathe himself properly. After several UTIs as a young kid, they gave up having him clean himself until he could prove it. Around the time that he announced that my dad's "weiner" looked like "ALF" (he's uncircumcised) they started phasing it out, lol. But, we were never taught one way or another about it. I teach the kids I work with that naked is for at home. And private parts are for parents, doctors, and themselves only. After discussing it with parents. Whatever floats your boat and as long as your kid isn't being nekkid at school or playing outside in the dirt (infection control!), who cares?

 

There is something a little funny in 6-7 yo boys running around the backyard showing the willies to each other and laughing. As parents if you make a big fuss about it, I think it just makes them more likely to do it. At least for the boys that were in my backyard, it was a passing phase.

 

My wife an I are somewhat exhibitionists, but "appropriate ones". We enjoy a nude beach, we have been at venues where nudity is allowed and encouraged. Before kids we would often be naked around the apartment, but with kids (and a house with bigger windows) we don't do the nude thing anymore. We don't hide nudity either when getting dressed or getting into the shower. Our kids will just walk into our bathroom etc without thinking.

Whats funny is the older they get, the more THEY don't like the nudity. My son at 9 is very much "really?" (apparently we are to be dressed at all times while in our bathroom) and my daughter who is younger thinks its funny. Being we don't stress anything about nudity being good/bad in the family its interesting to see how natural reactions to it develop.

I do recall when I was a kid (8-10), I never saw my mother nude, and really was a bit grossed out seeing my father nude.

Once while on a nude beach, a young nudist family was there (most nudits are 60+) with 3 kids, the oldest being about 13 year old girl. It just didn't feel right seeing them, especially her at that age. .

 

The only time I can recall seeing either of my parents less than fully clothed was once when I walked in on my napping father. He wore only boxers and the flap had flopped and so had his unit. Mildly off-putting would be a serious understatement.
I stopped being nude around my kids when my four or five year old eldest made a rather innocent comment about my manhood. Simply being underwear clad ended when my wife told me she didn't think it was appropriate around my still pre-teen daughter.
QW has always been extremely modest, except in our bedroom. She has always preferred sleeping sans pajamas. I get to see very little skin other than there or in the shower.

 

My mother came from an ultra orthodox family, and I had some very unfortunate experiences as a child, so that was pretty much locked down solid on all fronts. What I would do with my own family... I honestly have no idea right now.

 

My dad had epilepsy and the doctors in the 70's could never get his dosages right half the time and so when he was having a seizure or had had one, he'd sometimes strip and stand around the house nude and in a daze. We got used to it.
Usually though, we were only nude at bath time or changing time. My little sister though had a reputation for running away from the house down the road naked for a while when she was around 4 or 5. My brother or I would get a phone call and go fetch her.

 

My parents met in California during the 60's and were in full hippie mode. They then bought a VW Beetle, and with only some camping/food supplies and a couple hundred bucks, they headed East until they ran out of gas and money in Southwest Missouri, where they bought several hundred acres of land and a trailer to live in for just a couple hundred bucks while they built their own house. Then I was born in 1983. However, they largely retained their hippie origins for a long time, and we wandered and swam naked on our secluded hilltop farm out in the woods until I was about 10 years old. We had to stop all that when we moved into our little bible-thumping hillbilly town in 1993, though. Still, up until I was around 12-13, we would journey out to see some of my more liberal family members in California, and often visit the infamous nudist beach, Blacks Beach, and wander about in the buff.

My super-cute, petite, most recent girlfriend and I, the one I went to Maui with, we would get into my apartment and just chuck our clothes off and spend entire weekends wandering about naked, most of the time not even having it be sexual; we watched all of Orange is the New Black Season 2 and some classic Arrested Development butt-naked on my couch just snuggled up like we had clothes on (we didn't), and would cook, eat, and dance naked just because we could. My ex-wife who I was with to for seven years was way too prude and up-tight to do anything naked, so I'd forgotten about that aspect of myself until just 4 months or so ago when I met Casey. Sadly, she's gone now because she journeyed to the mainland (what Hawaiian Islanders called the Continental U.S.) to visit friends and family, go on a nation-wide wandering soul-searching journey, and go back to college at whatever the best university is that accepts her - we agreed that even though we were a great match and made each other happy, she should follow her dreams and future, and not her heart. Sorry for the tangent. I guess I have to find another pretty girl who likes to be naked.