well more a poll about how many baths per week for dcs?

[thecaptaincrocfamily]

How many baths per week is acceptable as a minimum? If no other washes.

Hydramol is another one I found good as an emoilient.

Once a day

PMSL at the crumbled leaves

Round of applause for captain

Loony - the dirt/paint/mud seems to sneak in under cuffs, up trouser legs and into their hair! They do get hot and sweaty, yes they might not smell like teenagers (thank god), but I just think it's nice to give them a bath and fresh skin... hardly a crime . Time to agree to disagree me thinks :)

Thanks chip!

captain, I had to check how to do it as I couldn't see what you were doing wrong!

Thanks everyone for your nice thread, going to plague another for a while, back in a bit

LOL you know what they say, brains never equals common sense

Hmm you may have a point Pinkjello, dd1 is a bit dirt phobic - she likes every single leaf cleaned off her trampoline (we live in a forest ffs) & all dirt wiped away before she will contemplate using it; I'm pretty certain she would dissolve into tears if someone crumbled leaves into her hair. DD2 is 1 so has a lot more supervision & can't yet penetrate the multiple layers of winter clothing although I can see she may be more trouble in future as I have been greeted by her several times brandishing slugs in my direction.

lol @ the leaves

Thanks for the responses. I'm glad to hear it, actually, because I just discovered that Oilatum did a bath oil (only knew the lotion previously) and ordered it online last week on a whim along with some other shopping.

Ha ha ha Loony tis only a matter of time before slugs progress to snails IME!

My dd loves her baths so she has one every night (12 months) hair washed twice a week.

DD is 4 and I bath her maybe once a month. Maybe.

She washes her face before bed. She washes her hands before meals and after toilet/when they are mucky.

She swims twice a week and mostly showers afterward, but not always.

Hair wash here and there, perhaps monthly.

I wash myself daily and bath approx fortnightly. Shower at home approx weekly. Shower at gym 3x per week. Hair wash after every swim, but max 3x per week.

Oh don't mention slugs.

DD1 once excitedly came to show us 'part' of a slug. Then excitedly told DH how she's eaten the other half but thought it was yucky! She really is a disgusting child!

once per month! Sorry but I really couldn't!

At 4 I think lots of children don't wash below properly or wipe properly after a poo. I think that is unclean.

I don't wash my ds very often.

Funny, most of the parents who bore us shitless about recycling and the environment are the ones who bathe the kids every day. What a waste of water.

Square that one, weirdos.

But I honestly connot comprehend how dirty mine would be without daily baths (esp DD1)

Maybe my children are just feral!

I bath/shower and wash my hair daily. I just love that squeaky clean feeling and it appears my dd (6) has inherited it. She often asks for a bath and has one every night (unless we are out late at a party, fireworks etc) she washes her hair every other day. Plus it makes for a good bedtime routine, bath story then bed....

Normality bites - I do hope you're joking, if not, then that is quite disgustingly dirty!

Desiderata, DS is 8 and doesn't take a shower every day, but DD(21 mo) is filthy at the end of the day- food in her hair,sticky from a spilled juice, felt tips all over etc. No choice here.

DD - 10 Two baths min a week, plus the odd shower, hair once a week - used to be on a Sunday before school week, now Monday afer swimming lesson. On its way up though at her instigation - need to add that second bathroom soon!

Ach! I'm only being me!

The thing is, when it comes to bathing kids, it depends on the routine you got into when they were babies.

I was far too idle to wash a newborn, and it went on from there.

He doesn't smell, because he isn't old enough to smell. When he does, he can draw the bath himself.

I clean his earwax, blow Batisse on his hair every other day, and scrub green bits with wet wipes.

But a full submersion .. every day???? Try selling that to the African bush.

am I the only one who read that Normality's dd is showering once or twice a week at swimming? Fail to see how that is digustingly dirty, esp at 4yo!

Mine get a bath twice a week and shower at swimming once. Generally hair is washed twice too. It's more in summer, they get dirtier.

Mine's never even been swimming. He'd sink like a stone!