They’re wrong about a lot of things, but the far away land of the past did get this one right. Babies basically were a single gender till about three, and it worked both ways: no of course you don’t need to cover up the identical top halves of boys and girls at the beach, and also feel free to put them all in dresses,…

My MIL is one of those insane women who think toddlers need to be modest. My daughter was wearing a sleeveless shirt and shorts, and her diaper was sticking out when she was in her stroller (not like it’s her underwear - her freaking diaper!), and my MIL freaked out, saying, “What about the men looking at her?”. ARE…

What IS it with toddlers and being naked?! And they have such glee when they are!

Several years ago, I was at my local beach in one of the “nice” suburbs and there was a very attractive Dutch family set up next to us. Their daughter was about 7 and frisking around in swim bottoms, but no top, much to the side-eye of other families on the beach. It seemed silly, though - here’s this happy, tanned…

My daughter is constantly naked. As soon as she can, the clothes come off. She’s three. Three year old kids love being naked. She also puts her butt out and says “look at my butt!”

Thong? Children tend to have poor hygiene. Even adult ladies get bladder infections from thongs. And a UTI is always inappropriate.

I have a three year old girl and I’d get her a bikini if she needs a new suit. It’s a hell of a lot easier to whip down a pair of bottoms for a toddler than it is to take down a whole suit when she needs to pee.

WHAT? My mom’s favorite baby pic of me is at 2yrs old in a bikini.

It isnt the child or the parent that is doing anything creepy (this DOES NOT include pageant parents). The people who see a child as “sexy” for any reason are the ones who are wrong headed and need psychiatric help. I’m being serious. Under no condition is a child ever sexy. They’re a child. Whatever behavior they are…

You’re seriously asking me why people use social media to share their lives with friends and family? If that’s too difficult a concept for you to grasp, I don’t think I can explain it to you.

My friend’s daughter went through a nudist phase around age 2 or 3—she considered being forced to wear clothes in public a travesty of the highest order, and whenever they got home, she’d strip down, throw both arms in the air in triumph, and shout, “MEKKID!” It was quite possibly the cutest thing ever.

I think an inappropriate swimsuit is possible. I mean, an inappropriate swimsuit I think is one with really gross writing. Like, your kid might not have any idea what it means, but other adults do and I’m not on board. Everyone gets to do them, but I would be scandalized if someone wore a tiny babby swimsuit with like…

By the same token, I don’t understand why people think pictures of children are something shameful that need to hidden away. The world doesn’t need to see the great majority of pictures posted on Facebook, and most people don’t choose whether or not to post photos of themselves, their families, and their lives on…

It'll be sexual to a pedophile no matter what. It's not remotely sexual to a normal person. So I feel like who gives a shit?

That really drives how purely this is about bullshit “modesty” culture (which is just another word for rape culture). It has nothing to do with the actual child’s body—just as you say, your daughter’s body is only considered wanton and slatternly when people realize she’s a girl. The exact same body is perfectly…

Omg, you remind me of my youngest as toddler/preschooler. As soon as we hit the door, his clothes came off. It was hilarious. I really should have seen it coming because when he was a baby, the minute he could reach his feet his sockies came off.

Huh. Each to their own I guess. Bikinis, one pieces, thongs, whatever. People, including women, including little girls, should be able to wear whatever without being responsible for other’s (men’s) reactions/potential creepy sexual feelings about it. Because that’s the problem. Not a little South American girl in a…

Your description of both those swimsuits made me smile. That is so ridiculous, though. My best friend just had a baby girl and for Christmas (they live in Australia) I sent her a super adorable neon turquoise ruffly swimming diaper. It didn't even occur to me to think that she would wear a top with them. Because she's…

I got side-eye because my baby girl (which you could only tell because I’d stuck her in these stupidly cute pink, ruffled, flower-print swim bottoms) didn’t have a shirt. I put her in the equally stupidly cute green bottoms with elephants and everyone at the pool is all smiles for my handsome little man.

That kid is so cute it’s not fair. Her blonde hair blue eye combo is like perfection. Not only that, her suit is completely appropriate. That hand on hip pose is pure sassy-pants behavior. I bet she takes dance class or something, because that's a totally normal pose for young kids...cause it's easy. Puh-leeeaze...