public bathroomThe older my daughter gets, the more nervous I
get sending her off to spend a day with her father. It's not
him. It's the fact that, at some point, she will have to go to
the bathroom. And then what?  Does a daddy take a little girl
into the men's room? Does he try to find a one-seater ladies'
room where he can feel confident standing outside the door? Or
does he risk it, sending her into a big bathroom full of ladies
without a single adult she knows as company.  This is not just a
problem for mothers of little girls. A mom of a little boy
recently got chewed out by women for taking her 5-year-old son
into the women's locker room to change his clothes.  The mom
reports that most of the other little boys in her son's swim
class came with their fathers. But it was just her with her son,
who she would help change in a stall in the women's locker room
rather than send him into the men's room alone.  I don't blame
her. My daughter is 8. She's old enough to change clothing
herself and old enough to h