to be shocked at how many parents don't....

[formerbabe]

bath their children every day!

Following on from the thread about a poster not changing her children into pyjamas, I was surprised reading the responses how many people say they only bath their kids a couple of times a week.

I bath mine every night before bed and always have done, bar illness or something catastrophic happening in my day. On the rare occasion they have had to miss their bath, I have done a quick wipe down with a flannel, but they never seem clean after it. My kids seem to get filthy during the day, mud/food etc.

I know those kids who have excema cannot always have a bath everyday, but for anyone else it just seems like pure laziness to me.

I bathe in every other day unless they are particularly grubby. I find more than that dries their skin out. It's also bad for the environment to bath unnecessarily everyday.

However, I too can smell nursery / school food and soap on my two and can understand why you want to wash they away.

they probably were bathing them every day when diagnosis made and have since stopped on advice that it is aggravating the problem

probably similar to the rise in asthma/allergies being linked to the rise in use of chemical cleaners etc in the home

the current advice for handwashing in hospitals/ dental surgeries etc it that it should be a plain unperfumed soap not coloured, perfumed or anti-bacterial all of these are linked to causing

there is no clinical reason for anyone to use anti-bacterial soap in the home but its a brilliant marketing ploy to make people who do not buy it to feel guilty that they are somehow exposing their loved ones to risk, the risk is from poor handwashing technique not the type of soap

as a dentist washing hands between patients and changing gloves i wash my hands at work 2-30 times a day depending on number of patients on top of other normal reasons for hand washing having done it for years it does affect your skin and tolerance to things on your hand it is well documented that although handwashing is essential to prevent cross contamination repeated handwashing is not good for your hands hence the change to plain soap as opposed to hibiscrub type of cleaners which do not get hands any cleaner but does affect them adversely

in the same way poor oral hygenie is due to poor brushing technique not the qwrong kind of toothpaste

bathe mine that should be

Golly, you're easily shocked, OP!

My DCs bath everynight and i think they need it. They do a huge amount of craft and always seem to have pen or paint on them. They play outside every day and we have a stream in our garden so outdoor play tends to get messy. Plus we live next door to horses and the DCs are always in the stables, they don't seem to come away without smelling pretty bed. Their skin is perfectly fine, i only use water and a touch of soap.

My DSis's DCs bath once a week, but that is all they need. They live in a city and just don't seem to get as mucky as my DCs. They are more into cleaner play like computer games and really don't need to bath more than once or twice a week.

Everyone is different i guess.

Ah... That's the snobbery... 'My dc are just so busy doing things that get them dirty not like those lazy parents whose dc play on computers all day'

See I wash hands obsessively (with plain soap) after touching animals. I sometimes make them change their clothes too. I also find washing in the sink cleans pen from hands/arms/faces/legs. I don't understand why there is a need for a bath.

Kids from a city probably need a shower/bath more, especially if it is london to wash off the horrible pollution tbh. The ordinary mess from doing things doesn't require a whole body wash like a bath. If you want to do it for fun that's your choice it's not necessary.

The advice we had with dd's skin is from GOSH

Children with eczema should bathe at least once a day, with oil added to the water. Frequent bathing will also help keep the skin clean and reduce the risk of developing an infection.

A cream such as aqueous cream should be used instead of soap and for washing. A moisturising cream should be applied liberally to all areas of dry skin at least twice a day.

Her eczema is very much improved from her bathing daily.

Oh for heaven sake some people are just plain idiotic!

Just because you choose to bath your kids every night does not make those who don't lesser parents.

Ffs remove your judgey pants and start concerning yourself with things that actually matter

Ds had atopic ( innate ) eczema in infancy and recommendation is to bathe daily with Oilatum/ Balneum etc to form barrier on the skin to heal and protect it.

Good bun fight tho keep going!

I dont not bathe mine every day because i'm worried about excema or lazy it is simply because it is uneccesary

We had a bath on a Sunday night ( 70's child) .My mum used to scrub me every day with a flannel and soap. She scrubbed so hard I swear I used to lose a couple of layers of skin, so much so that I'm surprised I wasn't see through. If you think a flannel and soap don't clean properly, I'll put you in touch with my Mum- she'll soon put you right .

Im the least lazy person I know and bath my 2 girls 3 nights a week unless their dirty and need more.

It has been proven (ill find a link asap) and I was told during training, that bathing too often disturbs the natural flora of skin and can make skin very dry and more susceptible to infections.

I think its very pigheaded to assume somebodys lazy for not bathing kids each night.

My dds have a routine every night whether its bath night or not. jammies, teeth, face wash and story.

Wow! 14 pages on this! Might as well add my bit. My 10 year old DS has a bath twice a week. He isn't a very sweaty boy and he gets mild eczema if he washes too much. He does 'clean' poos lol so doesn't need a flannel every night.
I've warned him that the washing is gonna have to step up soon when he starts getting teenage and smelly.

OP ~ 5 DC usually bathe twice a day!!!!!

Always bath little ones in morning ~ easier to stick them all in bath! and older 2 have a shower. Little ones have bath before bed and older 2 usually shower as have been at swimming club.

I shower morning and night and thought we were normal til I read this. Each to their own

I do mine every night when they're in nappies. If I found my skin covered in faeces, I don't think a swipe with some baby wipes would leave me considering myself 'clean'. Bath every night.

I actually was very surprised when I realised that lots of children in the UK don't have a bath or shower everyday. It seems odd to me, too. I dump mine in a bathtub or shower daily. DH (Welsh) says bathing was maybe once or twice a week when he was growing up, but he's bowed to my foreign ways now. :)

I don't really care what the rest of humanity does, though. Culturally strange, but then I don't get Strictly Come Dancing or Eastenders, either. Hey-ho.

I don't re-do my make-up as I was only wearing tinted moisturiser in the first place!

Mine have a bath every day. They both have eczema so we pour liberal amounts of Oilatum bath in the water, so it's not at all drying.

It just seems like the easiest thing to do - can't work out how we'd get them properly clean without it, but I'm not very good with anything fiddly. Also they adore playing in the bath together, so they'd probably cry the house down if they missed it for a night.

Horses for courses though, as long as they don't smell / are clearly caked in filth, I don't really care what other people do with their kids.

Doinsmummy .

Maybe kids with eczema might benefit from a daily bath in oilatum but my DS had sore dry skin when he was a baby, and stopping daily baths sorted it out. In his case, it was the baths that were causing his skin problems.

Well as everyone else has chucked their tuppence in (14 pages, really??) my dc get bathed/showered as and when they need it. Eczema probably influenced that. But I agree it's such a silly thing to be bothered about, OP. What else are you shocked by, I wonder.

When I was little, I bathed once a week on a sunday, wore the same shirt to school all week, and probably the same pants too. Eeeuch! I'm here and I'm healthy though. And if you met me you wouldn't judge my hygiene. I'm as clean as the next person.

how how how could sitting in a bath to be washed make someone cleaner than a thorough wet wipe or clean fannel or cotton wool and water on their bum?

Very judgy Offred and bitter. I bath my kids daily because they need it. Some kids don't so don't bath every day. My Dsis's DCs are not dirty because they live in a city, how rude of you to say so.

Whether your kids bathe every day or every other day isn't a big deal.

But being suffocatingly judgemental and smug is never a good thing, really.

And for what it is worth, wet wipes are bloody appauling for a kids skin. I should know, i worked for a company which made them. Flannel and soap and water is much better for skin than wetwipes, and much better for the environment too.