A mum in the UK caused a stir last year after appearing on national television and talking about the benefits of bathing naked with her sons, aged 10 and 11.
Lauren Libbert said she sees no problem being naked in front of her pre-teen children, and that they bathe together “maybe once a week”.
“I’ve a tiny bathroom but we’ll all scooch together and have a bath together and my boys are very comfortable with being naked and with me being naked,” she told the breakfast show This Morning in March last year.
The segment was asking the question: is it okay to be nude around your kids? And Libbert called into the show via video chat.
The mum-of-two believes it’s not a problem at all and – even though her eldest is approaching puberty – she sees no reason to stop, unless he begins to have a problem with it.
Indeed, she sees bathtime as an extension of sex education and is unsure why people are “confused” by it; she believes it offers clarity.
“My oldest is 11, he’s sort of approaching puberty – at the cusp of it – and they’re both very curious,” she said.
“They’re pointing and laughing and sniggering. They’re asking me questions absolutely, but I answer in a really matter-of-fact way. They ask me questions, What’s that? What are those bumps? Where do they come from?”
Libbert says she grew up in “this environment” and that it’s made her very comfortable in her own skin.
“I was doing this until past puberty,” she said.
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Hmmmmm...lots of thoughts here. First of all, nudity is NBD if it's not sexual in nature - I know, I know, a lot of people have a really hard time with that, but facts are facts. Mind you, my kids definitely knew before age ten what everything was, so what exactly is the point of all this?
Oh gosh, our bodies are so shameful. Let’s hide them from our kids!