I am so embarassed: my child mooned the neighborhood!
So, my 3 year old was getting dressed after swimming this afternoon. I thought she knew where I was (I was in her sister's room helping her sister) but instead of looking for me inside when she needed help, she decided to look for me outside. I guess because we had just been out there swimming she somehow thought I was still out there?!? Anyway, I thought I heard the door close, but I figured she had gotten dressed without me and was just letting the dog in or something. I go to check and I discover her outside WITH NO BOTTOMS ON! She was walking around our yard with a BARE BOTTOM looking for me. This was SO embarrassing. I feel terrible that she managed to get out looking like that. I told a close friend about it and she just thought it was funny. Maybe someday I'll think it is, but right now it makes me wanna cry it's that emabarrassing. I am praying that by some luck none of the neighbors saw her. I know 3 year olds don't have much modesty, but this kid needs some common sense!!! We had a very serious talk about it after I got some clothes on her. I guess this has shown me that it really is important to teach kids about modesty. We will be talking about it a lot more starting now. Does anyone else happen to have a similar story so I know I'm not the only one something like this has ever happened to? :-(
EDIT- To anyone who was concerned about her being out there with the pool, it was a wading pool and I always dump it out as soon as we're done with it, so there was no drowning danger. The fact that she got out alone did shake me up and I think that's a big reason why I was so upset at first. She has never gone outside like that without me before but now I have been reinforcing the rule that she does not go out alone!
My 10 year old escaped the house naked so many times (at 2yo) our neighbors started calling her Ethel!! (Ray Stevens) My 2yo now does the same thing, we go outside for a second and she comes running out of the house with no bottoms!! She started 7 months ago running around bottomless due to potty training, but she still takes her bottoms off to go potty and then doesn't want to put the back on!! It's a phase, just show them you don't accept it and make them go inside promptly and get bottoms on!
So be glad only the neighbors could have seen, lol. I'd be embarrassed too if it were my kid, but it is pretty funny.
Quoting summerbear:My 10 year old escaped the house naked so many times (at 2yo) our neighbors started calling her Ethel!! (Ray Stevens) My 2yo now does the same thing, we go outside for a second and she comes running out of the house with no bottoms!! She started 7 months ago running around bottomless due to potty training, but she still takes her bottoms off to go potty and then doesn't want to put the back on!! It's a phase, just show them you don't accept it and make them go inside promptly and get bottoms on!
Thanks for sharing! Makes me feel better to know she's not the only one! I will follow through with her about it!
She is 3, it's not a big deal to her right now, yes keep up with the "we don't show everyone our bums" etc but there was a study that children don't form modesty until school age nor do they differentiate gender until then either.... I don't think it's anything to be embarrassed about nor worry about she's little just inforce the good behavior with things like "those pants/shorts/skirt look very pretty on you" so she'll want to keep them on
How did you break your kids of the bottle?
- josie2231
on Jun. 27, 2012 at 10:47 PM