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No....I wouldn't do either...I think a child that old would be embarassed. My granddaughter doesn't want me to look when she changes clothes and I totally respect that.

No, a young child needs to learn what is appropriate, and neither of these scenes really is. The one in the store sounds really bad. I have tried things over things before in the store, but that is me, as an adult, with clothes underneath.

Even small children deserve dignity and privacy. I am glad you did what you could to protect the child's modesty. You set a great example fir your own children. I'd have told the child, if I were a mother, to put them on frontwards at school in the bathroom. As embarrassing as backwards clothes are, they're not half as embarrassing as what you described.

Shoes is one thing, clothing is quite another. Changing their clothes in public is teaching them it's okay to show off your body. I don't care how old the child is, the memory will stick with them. Also, you don't know what child predators may be watching and get awful ideas in their heads. It's just not right. The worst I did with my daughter was that in kindergarten she refused to go to the bathroom at school. She was only there for half a day and the bathroom was in the classroom but she was so shy she just refused to go. She would come home and rush into the washroom, sometimes making it sometimes not. One day the school phoned me and told me she wet herself and perhaps I should come get her AND maybe she wasn't ready for school. I said no. Make her come home on the bus. When she got off the bus with her pants all wet I asked her something about how she felt. I wanted her to realize that it was better to go to the bathroom than come home with wet pants. She never did it again. And fortunately no one ever made fun of her for it. Now that was 10 years ago. I'm not sure I would make the same decision today because times have changed. There are a lot of wackos out there, and there are mean kids too. But I felt this was the only way to teach her a lesson, but I wasn't undressing her in public. That is totally not appropriate.

Some parents just seem to live to publicly humiliate their children. No, of course, I wouldn't switch around my children's clothes in public or have them try on clothes in public view. In the case of the former, I would have hopefully caught the error before we were out the door; if not, I'd let it go until there was a private place to remedy it or not bother with it if there wasn't one. In the case of the latter, that's why there are dressing rooms--so that one may try on clothing with some measure of privacy.

my kids use to do the samething

We know kids are really doing the way they are kids, and even it is something silly still there are kids. But doing such thing for a parent to change his child pants in front of the public is not appropriate. I will let my kid to walk on his short backward rather changed it in public, I will wait for the bus or we will go to the comfort room to change it. What are the reaction of your kids about it? Did you ask them if it is okay with them to do the same in public he he he.

It depends on the age. I think a very small child, like 4 or younger would be fine, but anything older than that I would have told them to fix their pants when they got to school. My youngest is also notorious for putting things on backwards, but his teachers are very understanding. When I pick him up from school (because I'm not the one who drops him off) I'll notice something about his clothing, either backwards or not matching or something, and the teachers just laugh. They're used to it since they have a dozen or so kids that same age. So I've also learned to just let it go.

I don't have any kids so I can't answer totally correct but I lean towards no, but I did change T-Shirts on the sidewalk at our apartment complex with a friend of mine so who knows what I would do. If there was no one around I probably would but definitely not in a crowd of people.

Well, I have been known to be the mother that will make Paul take off his shoes no matter where we are and change them to be on the right feet because he is one of those children that is known for having his shoes on the wrong feet. Now, when he has his shorts on backwards, I typically try not to make a big deal out of it because they are only stretch shorts that he will put on backwards and people don't typically notice that as much. However, if I would have to make him fix them, I would find a tree or something that would block one side of him and then I would block another side of him so that he could put them on right.