how often do you bath a 10 year old?

[memoo]

At the moment DD has a bath a couple of times a week and has a wash down at the sink every night she doesn't have a bath.

Is this enough though? Friend says that her DD has one every night but tbh I am knackered at the moment due to being pregnant and don't want to be having to sort out baths every night

[worriedfriend2]

Wouldn't a 10 year old be able to bath herself though?

[BonsoirAnna]

A ten year old should be showering or bathing daily without needing supervision.

[Ivykaty44]

I struggle to get my dd to shower - she loves to be dirty

But I insist on three showers a week and she must wash her pits and use deodarent (otherwise she gets whiffy) Monday and uesday she swims so she has to shower after those and wash her hair aswell then.

Don't do baths often.

[CarGirl]

depends on whether they smell or not tbh! They should be bathing themselves though (unless they have proven they are not capable of using soap unless forced )

[frogs]

I don't. He baths himself. A 9yo is perfectly old enough to run a bath, wash and dry himself without assistance or intervention. Frankly my 5yo can do that with minimal supervision.

[Podrick]

4 or 5 times a week

[elsiepiddock]

My 10 year old has a shower every morning.

He only has a bath if he fancies flooding the bathroom a muck about with his brother.

[Ivykaty44]

I just took it the message was asking how often a 10 year old should bath as the op was having to actually run the bath for her dd, not actually wash her whilst in the bath

[shivermetimbers]

10yr old dd has bath every other day unless its 'the time of the month' then daily but she bathes herself, i'm not even allowed in the bathroom.

[blametheparents]

My 7 yo can sort out a shower himself. He has one most mornings before school. I don't really have to DO anything, apart from moan at him to get started (once he is in it is difficult to get him out!)

[memoo]

We don't have a shower and our bathroom is very old and a nightmare, getting the hot tap on the bath to turn on needs brute force so do have to run bath for DD.

She does wash herself very well but struggles to rinse her hair after washing it as she has very thick long hair so usually end up having to do that for her.

When she doesn't have a bath I make sure she has a proper wash from top to bottom

[Belgianchocolates]

My mum used to run my bath when I was 10 and I run it for my 7yo or if he has a shower I switch it on for him. I don't think doing it for a 10yo is that strange. Though when I was 10 I would have been better off doing it myself, because my mum ran the bath so hot that I burnt my foot having to go to a&e and missing part of a school trip

[Blottedcopybook]

I think at that age she's likely to be needing a bath more often than a younger child purely on the basis that her hormones are probably kicking in and her skin is likely to be oilier and sweatier than she has been. Is it practical for her to have a shower rather than a bath?

I think every other night is fine, but I agree that she really should be able to run a bath herself at 10!

[Blottedcopybook]

Oops - I had tabbed this page open and there was only one reply when I started typing. Carry on!

[PlumBumMum]

Shivermetimbers has your dd had her period already, my dd is 8 was hoping that was longer off than 2 years

[Belgianchocolates]

PlumBumMum: I was 10 too for my 1st period. It can start that early I remember being quite proud because they told me I was a woman now and not a girl!

[PlumBumMum]

I was about 13/14 I think and remember I couldn't wait but now its coming round to my dd I'm

But anyway I think a 10 yrold should be showering at least 3 times aweek

[shivermetimbers]

Plum, she started about 3 months ago 10.5yrs. I wasnt that surprised though because she is already over 5ft 2 and in a b-cup.

[Saltire]

DS1 has a shower every morning(he's in their for ages as well) and would ahve another one at night if I let him. DS2 isn'tt as keen on showers, but will have a shower or a bath (his fave is a bath)every night.

[Saltire]

there for ages!

[Saltire]

Mind you, I don't know if they actually wash! Ds1 doesn't like me going into bathroom when he is in (11 year old), but I have to wash his hair with shampoo, otherwise he would never even get it wet.

[piscesmoon]

At that age she should be able to sort it without involving you.

[NeedCoffee]

i'd say at least every 2/3 days. you don't have to wash her hair every time though do you?

dd1 nearly 9 only washes her hair 1 or 2 times a week usually.

[bigTillyMint]

Agree that 10 is old enough to bath / shower herself - DD has either once a day, usually before bed. I often have to hurry her out of the shower though.