AIBU to consider bathing kids apart?

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Hello - have 3 dcs - baby, 3.5 yo girl and 7 yo boy...The two eldest usually have a bath together - both are scared of showers..anyway, they've taken to lying on top of one another and making free and easy with each other's bodies..usually just willy and bum jokes, so innocent fun but then the lying on one another seems a little inappropriate..I feel like the perve police standing at the side calling: 'get off your sister' 'no touching' etc - my dh says we have to get them to bathe apart from one another but they're really not keen. Any tips? Any particular age they 'shouldn't' bathe together?

Yes, it is defintlety time they bathed apart. i would try 7 year old in the shower, defintley old enough to wash himself, dry etc. Bath the 3 year old and baby together.

ok - anyone got any idea how to get a 7 yo over a fear of showers?!

Sit him in the bottom on a bath mat with the shower head to hold in his hand, so it's in his control and not over his head as soon as he gets in. Toys help too!

Is it a power shower or an over-the-bath taps one?

The time to bathe them apart is when they want to bathe apart.

A 7yo and a 3yo are still little and want to play together in the bath. True.

I wouldnt push them apart to be honest. I would just reming ds he is older than dd and he will hurt her if he gets on top of her and keep policing it. Its no big deal honestly. I think the fact at 7 he is happy to bathe with a 3 year old little girl shows a very clear level of inocence and oblivious to anythng other than having a bit of a play in the bath.

bathe the baby and 3 year old togther and 7 year old alone?... that is the makings of a pretty boring and ridgid bath time OP

I have an 8 yo ds & dds aged 6 & 4.

We really can't put them in the bath together anymore because they all like to lie full length, washing hair etc. There's not enough room for all 3.

& I also got tired of continual willy & bum jokes between ds & dd1!

So we now have two shifts: ds, & dds.

Whoever goes first gets the hottest & cleanest bathwater, whereas the 'second shift' gets it topped up, so deeper water to play in. Anyone who prefers a shower (ds quite often) can have one instead.

Yes, v innocent...we've tried the two shifts, but ds got peed off as he loves bath time together. And it is nice he and his dd get on so well..The baby is too little (6 wks) to bathe with the 3 yo. But good point about giving him the shower - its a power shower btw. Anyway, thanks all