What age is too young for someone to sleep nude?

No age is too young, as long as you keep your nude part hidden in the blanket :)

I can think of no reason why anyone shouldn’t sleep in the nude at any age except that evey child should have jammies with feet attached some time in their lives. Mine had cowboys on horseback with lassos and another pair had sailboats, lighthouses and seagulls. They were great jammies. They had a buttoned up back door like a union suit, too.

Don’t let the bed bugs bite.

Why ask…?

If they don’t need a diaper, they can sleep naked. It is too cold here to do that, but on holiday, I’ve let my kid sleep with nothing on. It’s healthy. I had a brief moment where I thought… ufff… what if there is a fire alarm and we have to leave the building, but I figured there were plenty of blankets to put around him. In July, in New Orleans, a sheet is plenty.

*pyjamas

I think the mention of who else is in the residence is significant. I wouldn’t approve it if there were adults present who are not the child’s parents.

My son was born in August, in Florida. He was rarely clothed at all the first six months of his life.

Birth until they are potty trained…after that pajama’s are optional. Please have a robe handy.

I agree with anything before the age at which they’re potty trained (for mom’s sake), as long as they have privacy in their rooms and aren’t flashing the whole household.

Depends, but I’d say when they move out. Seems odd in your family home.

I used to sleep nude as young as 8 or so (when it would get really hot). I had my own room and got dressed before anyone could see me, so no problem.

Shouldn’t the question be, “What age is too old for someone to sleep nude?” I mean -Eeewww!

I’m thinking that people are waaaaay to caught up with the shame of nudity. I’ve never been shy about stripping off my clothes in a non-sexual way. Doctor’s office, skinny dipping with friends, having a bath or shower with my baby, changing in communal changing rooms… No. Big. Deal. Especially since moving to Norway. I draw the line if company is over or the curtains are open. Grab a robe, please, but otherwise… big deal. Get over it. We all have an ass and nipples.

I agree with @janbb, sleeping naked when you’re really old, you must be tempted to use your breasts/testicles as an extra blanket…surely.

Strange question. It probably doesn’t matter if you are nude or not under your blankets. If you grow up sharing a bathroom down the hall with other family members in which some of whom are different gender than yourself, you probably want to be clothed when you walk into the hall. If you sleep in the nude do you change from your daytime clothes to loungewear when you get home and then take those off when you sleep? Or, are you staying in your day clothes up until the time you shed them and go to bed?

Certainly a dad isn’t going to tuck in their nude 5 year old girl. That’s just odd to me.

Climate certainly plays a factor. In the winter we had one piece feety pajamas. We couldn’t be more covered up.

No age. If the person finds it more comfortable to sleep naked, then there shouldn’t be a problem. But they should keep themselves covered with the blankets and put on a robe or something when other people are around.

But gosh, wouldn’t they be cold!

You still didn’t tell me why you’d ask…

Why should there even be an age? Why should you wonder about this? Is there any behavior implied with that nudity that is age-related? Are there health risks involved in nudity?

What does the opposite sex person have to do with the nudity of the boy/girl?

What is your fascination with young girls/boys and sexuality? (If sexuality is not implied here, then again… tell me why you ask…)

These types of questions make me wonder about the motives of the one asking. More so if that person has recently put some remarks and questions out there implying there is nothing intrinsically wrong about sex between adults and underaged children. (“If there is no violence, it isn’t rape”)

@whitenoise You still didn’t tell me why you’d ask…
Oh…are you signing my checks? I could ask you why you feel need to ask me why I asked the question instead of answering it, if you had an answer anyway.

Why should there even be an age?
I don’t know, you have not answered anything. By the question I am taking it as many who have answered there need be no age.

Why should you wonder about this?
Why shouldn’t I? If I can wonder why someone would name their cactus, come up with a slogan for a state they don’t live in based off laws they made or may make, ponder why some people are clueless as to knowing if someone love/likes them or not, I can ponder this. Again, no one here is paying my bills or signing by checks so I owe no answer to anyone, they certainly don’t owe it to me. Maybe, and I am not saying it is the reason, it came up in a conversation past or present I had with people known to me, a question I read in a magazine, seen on a blog, etc. it really doesn’t matter, it hasn’t stopped anyone else from answering, just you, it seems.

Is there any behavior implied with that nudity that is age-related?
Not a question I asked. What do you think it is?

Are there health risks involved in nudity?
I am sure there are if very slight; however, irrelevant to this question.

What does the opposite sex person have to do with the nudity of the boy/girl?
Because if you have a boy sleeping nude and he is not in bed but forget to close the door, as boys forget things, or a girl sleeping nude that wakes in the night, ”sleep drunk” and doesn’t take time to find the robe she thought she hung on the chair and decides the toilet is just 6 steps away, just go, if another sibling of the same sex sees them most of society will likely say no foul, however, the thought that a naked sibling be seen by a sibling of the opposite sex is nauseating; especially if the naked sibling is 5 or more years over the younger observer.

What is your fascination with young girls/boys and sexuality? (If sexuality is not implied here, then again… tell me why you ask…)
Any fascination seems to be yours, I did not mention any ages. I did not imply to anything sexual, surely you have a command of English, if you see “sex”, “sexual”, or anything alluding to a sex act in the title or the description please point it out to all of us on Fluther and I will summarily debunk it so you will be back on course, you seem to have strayed far, far off.

These types of questions make me wonder about the motives of the one asking.
They are only there type of questions because you misread what I wrote even after I explained it to you. If you want to pose a question; then pose one, I would love to answer it and straighten you out on the facts. Rather than practicing character assassination you can focus on the question at hand, pass up on it, or ask one of your own.

@whitenoise Kinda agree that it’s inappropriate to keep implying someone’s a pedophile. In my area, them be fightin’ words.

@KNOWITALL

This is the first time I imply such a thing. More so, actually, to prevent that, I asked about the reason for the question in an earlier post.

@Hypocrisy_Central
The reason I asked you for the motivation of your question, is that I was doubting the question’s motivation and I didn’t want to jump to conclusions. As I explained above…

re “it really doesn’t matter, it hasn’t stopped anyone else from answering, just you, it seems.”
That doesn’t seem likely. More likely to me, is that I have been the only one that actually made the effort to ask.

RE: “the thought that a naked sibling be seen by a sibling of the opposite sex is nauseating; especially if the naked sibling is 5 or more years over the younger observer.”
Well… if that is driving the question, then okay… I didn’t realize people could have that strong an opinion on seeing nudity of one’s siblings. However, living in a conservative muslim country, I realize I should’ve known better.

Anyways… thanks for clarifying the question’s motivations…

To answer your question… I see nothing wrong in nudity at any age. When it comes to my children though, the most important thing would be their wellbeing. For that reason, I teach them feel good about themselves and that they don’t need to feel ashamed of their bodies.

I do tell them to dress up more, when around strangers. For instance when sleeping over at other people’s houses, or at summer camp. In the safety and comfort of their own house, all that matters is what makes them feel most comfortable. At this moment they are in a phase of their lives anyways, where they seem to be less comfortable about their nudity around others anyway.

I agree with @cazzie about the diaper thing.

But would point out that using this criteria, you can be too young and at some point to old.

@whitenoise Well… if that is driving the question, then okay… I didn’t realize people could have that strong an opinion on seeing nudity of one’s siblings.
That is not the main or driving reason for the question. I had to cover the issue in some way because we here in the USA are a sexually double-minded nation where we really do not know what we want sexually or use any logic to determine it. With some, if it were all females in the house they would see nothing amiss with anyone of any age sleeping naked, but of there were a chance a son could see his mom slipping naked to the restroom in the middle of the night, or a brother catching his naked sister coming up the stairs after fetching a late night cup of water from the fridge door.