If you're on your own with DC, how do you shower?

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I'm off today with my nearly 3 year old DS and I really need to wash my hair! I've already used dry shampoo for 2 days in a row and I can't get away with it any longer

I obviously usually shower when my partner is home and can sit with DS but he is he working today and won't be back until later and I really need to run errands so can't go out with my hair like this.

I'm thinking the most sensible option here would be to put him in his bedroom to play as there's a safety gate on his door so I wont have to worry about him having an accident and falling down the stairs but it just makes me anxious leaving him unattended, even though it won't be for long. What does everybody else do?

I either put my 3 year old in his room to play as there's a baby gate on the door or put him in the bath/shower with me. In serious desperate times, wash hair in sink x

Get some toy fish and let him play with them at the sink. Or shower once they are in bed!

Quickly :o

At three I would shower while they are playing or watching TV no problem.

Or after bedtime is a good idea if your 3yo is likely to do something dangerous.

When they're asleep in bed in the evening.

With my 3 year old I just check there are no knives in the shower and then leave her watching TV while I go in the shower, tbh.

@aliloandabanana

Are you always in the same room as him? Surely there are times when you pop into another room or go to the loo and he's safe in front of the TV or engrossed with toys for a couple of minutes? Just tell him you've got to wash your hair and close the safety gate for 5 minutes. Failing that, take him and some toys into the bathroom with you.

I don't really understand when women claim they can't have a shower etc because there's a child in the house... How did you manage to dry shampoo your hair - how was that different from washing it, in terms of having a child around?

Do you know what dry shampoo is?

It's very different from going in the shower to wash your hair.

Good suggestions here

He will be fine in his room for 10 mins or on landing

I had this bed thing, donut bed that you could use to put baby on so relax, not to sleep unsupervised. So I would take that into the bathroom and put her on the floor beside the bath. As long as she could see me she was always fine, she just didn't want to be out of the same room as me for the first year, which was fine. So bathing (I don't like showers) was fine, I would just be cooing at her from the bath.

Pop them in their bedroom with the stair gate across it and crack on with my shower. They're perfectly fine playing for 10/15 minutes in the safety of their own room.

To have a bath I would simply share it with 2 dc - to have a shower put stairgate up on the bathroom door & try taking dc into shower with you or sit dc on bathroom floor
(mum of 3 dc - as pp have said either have shower before dc gets up or after he goes to bed)

How strange. I left mine in front of the telly or playing with their toys. My old house was baby then toddler proof. So you've never left your child to occupy themselves for 10 mins? At 3?