To think bathing your children together at this age is not right

[Fishwife1949]

I was talking with my friends friend at her house on our friday lunch date we were talking about our children growing up aour kids are all of a similar age

My mates mate say she cant let go and stil
BATHS her children together (confused) she has a boy and a girl the girl is 11 and the boy is 9 WTF

I nearly spat out my tea

I really think this should end around 5 mark and maybe you could get away with a little later of there same sex

I don't see the problem. My sister and I always shared the bathroom as kids and it never became odd so even now if we were on the same house and one was using the loo and the other needed to use the bathroom for some important reason I would bat an eyelid. Obviously that is only in emergency now but its the point that atn
o point sis it become weird so who else's business

Where as I chose to stop kissing family when I felt it time as a kid.

They can chose themselves.

YABU

Mine are 5 and 7 and still bath together, boy and girl. Will stop when they don't want to anymore.

squeakytoy thats why i think its a bit odd

Hmm, I think I should stick to typing on a comp and leave the phone well alone

I started puberty at 9, no chance would this have been happening. My mum was trying to bath me then tho tried to pull off my first pubic hair thinking it was a bit of fluff.... Rage

Blimey.... Five really?? My three bath together at 8, 7 and 5.... Two DS and one DD.... They still fit more or less... And it saves time and water.... If the DC are happy what's the problem? Mine all see me naked in all my glory all the time.... Should that stop at five too!?!?

i used to have 3 in the bath - up till DS was about 3 and his sisters 6 and 8, then it was too cramped. they were still quite blase about nudity, Ds would shower with DD 2 when he was 5 and she 8, didn't bother her - I think he was an extra "toy" then, to wash and shampoo!

DD1 is 12 and has wanted her privacy for a year or so
DS is 7 and now able to be an obnoxios little boy making rude personal remarks!

in the OP case, I do think 11 is a bit old but then some 11 yo are very immature both physically and emotionally

orangelilly lmao! Fluff hahaha.
I remember my straight pubes when the emerged at around 9/10 & my funny looking boobs :/

some people are less inhibited than others I suppose. each to their own. unless she's forcing them to do it, they'll stop as/when they want to. watched a French comedy the other day, as you do, and the older teenage boy and girl were bathing together. oh those foreigners and their funny foreign ways i thought to myself. is she French?

Yeah, its abit strange but each to their own eh . My 10 year old won't let me in my ensuite when he has a shower! Goodness knows what he'll do when he has to shower after sports next year hahaha!!!

My 8 year old boy and 6 year old girl ask to be bathed together. As soon as they are not comfortable with it (i suspect in the next year or 2) we'll stop doing it.

Dd is 9 (young 9, no puberty yet), ds1 is 7 and ds2 is 3. They still occasionally share - sometimes dd with ds2, or ds1 and dd, or ds1 and ds2.

If she doesn't want to share, then of course she can have a shower instead or a later bath. But if she isn't bothered and they have a laugh, I can't see the problem.

I dont think yabu at all. If 11 isn't deemed too old for siblings of the opposite sex to see each other naked (going by the maj of posts here), when is the cut off? 13? 15? Older?

damn the man - I take it you didn't see the thread last year about the 17 yo son who still gave his mum a bear hug in bed when she was topless!

I would have thought that 11 is a bit old, and they might not want to, development and all that stuff

phantom oh dear god no I didn't! What was the general concensus??

Tread, what if they don't want to at 15

each to their own. I think it is a bit old tbh and mine started to bathe alone in the juniors. my youngest is a boy and i think he didn't share a bath with his sisters once they were about 7 but can't really remember

I think 11 is too old if they are different sexes.

My 11 year old will have her 4 year old brother in the bath with her but won't bath with her 8 year old sister. 8 and 4 year old also bath together. 11 year old hasn't started devleoping and isn't the slightest bit body concious.

5 would be very young to stop - my 5 and 2 year olds bath together - boy and girl.

11 seems a bit old but if the kids are ok with it then fine

Wouldn't bother me in the slightest but I'm slightly surprised that an 11 year old still needs to be bathed by her mum. I haven't bathed any of mine since they were 8.

WTAF is wrong with people?

Do you think having a bath together will make them sexual deviants or something???

A cut off date??? Right. You are now 5, that means you can no longer have a bath with anyone.

It actually worries me that people think like this.

Damntheman - shock and disbelief I think - I dont THINK it turned out to be a prankster either! I mean, DS is 7 and enjoys a snuggle into my cleavage still but 17!

if the kids arnt bothered by it then no reason why not.obviously if they are bothered by it then thats different.

thing is you can only make the call with regard to your own dc's as parents are likly to be the only people who know how they feel about that sort of thing.

it wouldnt bother my kids,wouldnt have bothered me when i was that age.but it would bother some people.

have we not started on little girls bathing with/seeing their dads naked? Thats always good for a bun fight!