This is only a question, not anything else. When your getting dressed, taking a shower, or otherwise getting dressed or undressed for bed, do you shoo your kids out of the room?

Let me say firstly that we never took our girls to the nude beach but it wasn't because we wouldn't have, we just got too damn busy to go ourselves. And, when we were with them we usually had ten other things to do.

In our years of going to nudist beaches however, we met and became friends with many families who enjoyed nudism together. The kids would go off and play and the adults would sun, play cards, or just sit and talk. No one ever paid attention to the kids and if anyone did look wrongly at them there would have been one dead pervert on the beach.

During my college curriculum I took a course on Social Deviance and we studied nudism as a general topic. One statistic that stuck with me is that when children reach puberty they generally stop going to public nude beaches even if they live in a totally nudist family. With the onset of puberty boys and girls become very self conscious of their bodies. They may or may not remain nudists in their adult years but they stop of their own volition during this period.

As to "displaying them", there is less harm done in my opinion in going to a nude beach as a family than by putting children in beauty contests or trying to make them into child models or actors. That, in my opinion, is true child exploitation.

As always darlin, I do respect your opinions but on this one my live experiences says I am in disagreement. Where I do agree with you though is that if I ever come across someone exploiting their children at a nudist beach I would take them into my custody and call a Cop. Exploitation in any form is cruel, immoral, and completely unjustified.

I respect everyone's opinion and how one raises their kids is certainly their choice - as it should be. However, I'll have to take exception to your comments here. In my opinion, and that's exactly what it is, there's nothing wrong with being nude in front of your family during ones normal daily activities. We never stopped our kids from getting into bed with us when they were small or showering with them or getting dressed or undressed in front of them. Hiding from kids only gives them a sense that nudity is bad and that creates a repressive atmosphere relating to nudity.

Now, lets be clear, we're not talking about running around the house exposing ones genitals around the kids. It's not verbally convincing them that nudity is great and they should be nudists. In fact, we taught our kids that there's a time and place for nudity but there's nothing inherently wrong with being naked, alone or in a group with similar feelings.

They're both grown now and neither of them is a prude but neither of them, as far as I know, goes to nude beaches as they know their mom and dad do. If I ever saw one of them at a nude beach or sunning topless on a camping trip to the wilderness I would simply consider them to have a very healthy attitude about their bodies.

Well, that's my opinion and my experience. Everyone is certainly rightful in a different opinion.