A dad takes his 4-year-old daughter to the women’s restroom during a shopping trip at Walmart. He didn’t expect a worker to intervene.
TikTok user Jeremy (@jeremydholl) is the father of a 4-year-old daughter. A couple of weeks ago, on a visit to Walmart, his daughter needed to use the restroom.
“I take her to the back of the store,” Jeremy says to start the video. “As me and my 4-year-old daughter are walking into the women’s restroom, a Walmart janitor goes, ‘Sir, sir!’ I stopped, I looked at him, said, ‘Yeah?’ He goes, ‘You can take her in the men’s restroom.’”
Walmart worker stops dad taking daughter to restroom
Jeremy was stunned.
“And I looked at him and said, ‘I’ll take her in the women’s restroom,” he says. “And we went in the women’s restroom. He thought it was the craziest thing ever that I was taking my daughter into the woman’s restroom at Walmart.”
Perhaps anticipating questions about why he takes his daughter into the women’s restroom, Jeremy offered his reasoning.
“For a little perspective, every single stall in a women’s restroom is secluded and private,” he says. “There’s an exposed area in men’s restrooms. My daughter’s only four years old.”
And Jeremy says he is polite and courteous when entering those spaces. “I announce myself when I walk into a restroom with her. ‘Hey, girl dad here taking his daughter to the bathroom,’” he says.
In the caption, Jeremy wrote, “A Walmart employee really tried to tell me where my daughter should go to the bathroom.”
Viewers React to the Walmart Employee’s Bathroom Intervention
In the comments section, viewers praised Jeremy’s actions and criticized the Walmart worker for intervening in a family matter.
“As a mother, I would NEVER be upset with a dad bringing his daughter into the women’s room, especially if he has the courtesy to announce it,” one woman wrote. “I’d probably applaud him for doing so. I’d be more upset with a dad bringing the little one into the men’s room.”
“I would prefer you to bring your daughter to the women’s restroom,” wrote another mother. “She doesn’t need to see grown men at the urinals, and she doesn’t need to sit on those nasty toilets. Ours are cleaner.”
Someone else said, “Let people be angry. Your daughter is your priority. If others are offended, then so be it.”
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Redditors Weigh In On Parents and Bathrooms
In this Reddit thread posted to r/NoStupidQuestions, users offered mixed opinions on the issue. Some dads said they took their young daughters into the men’s room with no problems. Another segment is more in line with Jeremy’s philosophy of using the bathroom of the child’s gender. And still, other people said they use whichever one is open and cleanest.
The Mary Sue contacted Jeremy via TikTok comment and direct message for comment. We also reached out to Walmart via website contact form for comment.
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