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Do you let your child run around in just a diaper?

I have always felt that looked a little like white trash. I can remember seeing people toting their child into the store (especially Wal-mart) in nothing but a diaper. I always thought it was tacky. Which is partly why I never buy those special print diapers for my son. They cost more money and no one would ever see them. Not to mention, the few times he has gotten his bottoms off to run around in his diaper, the next thing to come off is the diaper.

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  • 9 years ago
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    in the house i let them... out in public never!!! now that my kids are older than one years old i dont even like my son being in a onesie without shorts or pants... but i do let him go barefoot.... only because i carry him everywhere. my daughter always wears shoes because she walks.. its ok for home i dont think its nice in public... also i do not like girls wearing 2 pieces untill 15 years old. i think 2 pieces on baby girls looks sooooo trashy...

  • Mama J
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    Not in public. But I do when we are at home. She usually stays in just a diaper for about an hour after she has a bath in the evening. Sometimes I allow it in our backyard too.

    Taking a child out shopping in just a diaper is definitely tacky. I know that sometimes messes happen - but that's why you should always keep an extra outfit with you. Purposely taking a child out in a diaper is not acceptable.

  • 9 years ago

    At home, yes. Out in public, like while shopping or eating out, no. Possibly if we were at a park and it was really nice out, I might, but not usually. I think those special print diapers are a waste of money myself. But I'm the same way about cute underwear for kids. Good motivation for a potty training child, but no reason an older child needs superhero or princess underwear.

  • 9 years ago

    I let my daughter run around the house with her diaper but I would never take her to the store in a diaper ever!!

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    I have a three and a a million three hundred and sixty 5 days previous boys. I enable them run round the domicile in a diaper continually. in the experience that they bypass outdoors, yeah particular, i will placed clothing on them then. i trust my sons experience the nice and cozy temperature more effective than me. They sweat like loopy. for sure they'll be more effective tender with absolutely a diaper and your on your man or woman residence, so why no longer.

  • Minnow
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Yes, but only at home. I wouldn't take any baby of mine out without a shirt and shorts/pants on at the very least, a diaper is like underwear and I wouldn't take them out just in that.

    As far as special print diapers.... first, I get them on sale, they're not more expensive but cheaper when I pick them up, and they're usually better than the ones we get. What do I mean better? Well, the 'little movers Huggies' for example, if my son is having really runny diarrhea, they catch it. This really is helpful during flu season or just when he gets to feeling sick, it catches it and we don't have any blow-outs. I don't use them most of the time, but when he's sick, man they are helpful!

    Second... do you think that buying a little girl or little boy underwear with prints and characters on it is pointless because no one but you and them see them? Last year, when I got the jean diapers (I think I paid $5 for a jumbo pack) my son was only a year old but when he saw them he brightened up and danced in them, then showed them off to people just like a little kid with new underoos on. The Santa diapers I picked up when he was sick with the flu, and man seeing his face and how it cheered him to have that was worth it (as well as the poop catching ability.) I do plan on buying the Hawaii ones, when they go on sale and I have coupons, because I know he'll love them and dance in them. So what if the only ones seeing them will be us? He thinks they're fun, so I don't mind.

    And yeah, he runs around barebutt, but he's on the verge of potty training and likes to pee on the wall, make patterns in the carpet, on his sister's head... etc. So he's got to keep the diapers on. But that's another thing with the Little Movers I'm finding I like, he can usually slip them down and slip them back up, the elastic is almost like a pull-up. So if he's going to strip, I have a better chance of keeping something fun and colorful on him than letting him run nude. And nude has far wetter consequences.

  • 9 years ago

    in my own home i let my kids run around in just a diaper. now they are out of diapers and i have to beg them to keep at least a shirt on with their undies lol. the only time i took my kid into the store in just a diaper was when he had made a complete mess of his clothes (#3) i had no extra clothes in my bag just diapers. so i changed him in the car then went in to buy him new clothes.

  • 'sup
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    Guess I'm white trash then! He runs around the house in a diaper, when we go out he has clothing on. I'm lucky if he isn't butt naked half the time and guess what....I don't care! It is the least of my worries, lol

    Source(s): mom to a special needs child who refuses to wear clothing, he is a little nudist at heart.
  • ?
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    Consider me white trash then. I let my 21 month old son run around in his diaper every morning after hes done eating breakfast. Theres a place for it and then theres not a place for it.

  • LOLeah
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    In public? No, never. My daughter is always dressed when we go out and about...sometimes her hair isn't perfectly brushed and she might have a grubby face but she is always clothed.

    Now at home and even in our private backyard, different story.

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