Do you bath your kids everyday?

I went with the less is more advice from dermatologists and showering is such a drama now with my autistic teen that I wish I had just made it a daily ritual. It’s very hard to enforce every other day when the number of days in the week is odd, or every Tuesday/ Thursday/Sunday when there’s a difference of two days and three days.

Every time is a battle.

Mine are younger and maybe only have a bath 1-2 a week 😂. I wash their faces before bed though.
I think before puberty it's fine, kids don't naturally stink, but maybe soon it will be good to get them into the routine as it's a good habit for when they're older?

May well do, but it's pretty standard advice these days (we were told the same by the GP years ago).

And towels must be boil washed at least twice after every use.

Every day, if yr child sits next to a child with AS and they say they smell it’ll b with them the rest of their school life. Also clean clothes everyday.

I think we see the same dermatologist!

In MN adults shower twice a day and kids once a day.

Every other day, unless they've decided to spread ketchup in their hair or dive head first into a pile of mud. Boys are 4 and nearly 2.

Irish mother here bath every night for all 3

growing up there were six of us kids and again bathed every night all my nieces and nephews the same

Shower every night. It's no big deal, he does it himself. I definitely think that your 9 year old should. Mine started to get smelly around that age.

Not if you're using stripping highly scented stuff and burning hot water

A mild wash with not too hot water is fine or a shower oil or emollient if you have dry skin

These posts get very heated.

If you look it up, the official recommendations basically just say to do whatever works for you and your kids. There's no right or wrong assuming you're not aggravating any skin conditions or leaving them so long they're not clean.

Mine are 6 and 4 and typically get a bath or shower twice a week. Maybe a bit more in summer. Eldest hated the bath as a baby so we bathed her as little as possible and far away from bedtime, so a nightly bath has never been part of our routine. Others find it settles their children and so daily baths have been their routine from day one and they can't imagine doing otherwise.

Whatever works.

I aim for every other day but it depends on what we've been up to

Smallies, twice a week. Three times in summer when they were sweatier/grubbier.
Tweens (9/10 onwards) shower every second day and then every day when BO hits.

The sporty teenage boy would happily have 3 showers a day if we let him.

Never bathed them everyday. Every other day when they were in nappies, then every 2-3 days. Now they are teens they shower every other day due to greasy hair. Never sme
I shower daily after the gym and wash my hair every 3 days.

Every day. However one of my girls is lazy when she pees and gets sore because she doesn’t dry herself properly, so she needs to be washed regularly (daily) or she gets vulvovaginitis.

that said we all shower daily so I just expect the same of them now too.

Morning shower for everyone in the house. No skin issues resulting.

Daily per advice from my child's dermatologist (consultant dermatologist at Great Ormond St Hospital). Water warm, not hot and has an emollient in it.

My dad's culture is very hard on people who don't bathe daily, or smell/look 'clean'. My mum bathed us sporadically, and I was usually a bit smelly until around 10 when I decided to bathe daily in the morning before school. That's set the standard for my DC; a bath every morning.

We're black so we don't wash our hair when we bath, it's washed separately...maybe every 1 or 2 weeks depending on look/smell.

I think it depends. I'm on my third (child, not bath!) and I've always been a big proponent of bathing children every 3 days or so, in order to maintain healthy skin and flora. But, with my youngest (girl) who is 2, we are now bathing her every day in completely plain water, but only washing her hair 1 or 2 times per week. This is GP's advice and due to her being diagnosed with something called vulvovaginitis, which is an inflammatory skin condition and presents a little like a UTI. In her case, it was caused by bubble baths but it is worsened by old urine that sort of remains between the labia throughout the day - especially worse when she's out in a childcare setting all day.

Until this diagnosis I had outrageously unwavering opinions on how often anyone "needs" to bathe their kids, 😅 but now I've really accepted that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to bathing for adults or kids.

Skin is one part of it, but there's also time and budget. Side note and demonstrably poor mothering on my part: I find having to do bath time every day really annoying. 😅

That's not true any more

I was given that advice in the 90s as a child but the advice my son gets from a consultant dermatologist is daily baths but the lukewarm water is really important. Hot water can be an issue.

Here's the UK eczema society saying the same thing at point 7

https://eczema.org/information-and-advice/information-for-parents-and-children/babies-and-eczema/

She has sport at school 4 days out of five, and does gymnastics at the weekend, so she needs a shower almost every day. We skip one occasionally. And only wash her very long hair twice a week. We bathed her less before she turned 8 and started getting BO.

Bath every other with hair wash ( sweaty activities) shower down the days between

Every 2-3 days here until hormones kick in then it’s most days or every other day if timing doesn’t allow. During period it’s daily.

My DC 8 and 9 shower daily (may skip the odd day). It's part of their routine and their skin is fine.