hairwashing nightmare

[leoandmummy]

my ds is 2.10 and has always loved his baths but noth having his hair washed. have been bad because have let it slide and only been washing it once a week . his head has been itching and he seems like he might have dry skin on his scalp (?) so gave him a good hair wash night before dispite screams with help of his dad. he screamed and climbed out of bath and wouldn't get back in. same thing tonight although i was doing it on my own. he was saying after 'scared of bath' i'm worrying that this will become a problem for the bath altogether and the hair washing thing is awful

any ideas?

[Bimblin]

Not much advice but I sympathise. My DS (2.8) is the same and has pretty filthy hair now. Occasionally both DH and I force him but have not found a better way (bribery, DH letting him wash DH's hair etc), so look forward to responses. Bathing wise I got him to do it by lots of small steps - giving a favourite toy a bath in a washing up bowl, helping wash toy in the bath etc then he just got in. Haven't found a similar route hair wise.

[leoandmummy]

the bath is fine but i'm worried he's going to dislike baths because of hairwashing. he wont get back in afterwards.

[fishie]

i should think once a week is ok for hair washing. ds got flakey scalp once at about 18m, i put oil on and it all came off no problems since.

can you find out what he specifically hates about it? generally getting wet, wet ears, water in eyes, shampoo???

[MamaG]

My DS is the same - he's 4 in March and its only recnetly that he's even got IN the blardy bath, let alone had his flipping hair washed! beast.

Now he's a bit older, he will "let" me do it without too much fuss (but he does cry ) - think once a week is OK, and hopefully he'll get better as het gets older