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.

Laziness?! Have a

Individual choice entirely. My 7 yr old is twice a week unless he gets filthy.

Surely being that rigid in a routine doesn't allow for any spontaneity. .....I find that boring

Needaninsight - dirty bums?
does that mean if your child does a poo at 9am they run around all day with a dirty bum?

OP - YABU

Why shocked? what harm is going to happen to them missing the odd bath night? are you "shocked" when other parents don't follow everything else you do?

Mine have a bath everyday because they want to. It's part of their morning routine and it freshens them up and wakes them up. I like a bath before bed because I love to end the day by relaxing and I live that feeling of being squeaky clean and snuggling down into cool crisp sheets, and I have a shower in the morning because love to wake up with cool water sprinkling over me. I am a washaholic.

But is there really a NEED to bathe every day? How dirty do we get? It's not like most of us do hard, dirty, sweaty manual labour these days, is it?

Bathing alternating with a good strip wash doesn't seem that dirty. In fact, it used to be much more common to do that when people WERE muckier on a day to day basis. A good hard scrub with a soapy flannel gets you clean. I really don't think that the majority of people get dirty enough in 24 hours to have a genuine need to immerse themselves in hot water.

Every other night here. Can't think of any reason to do it more often

Why do people keep saying their kids don't get dirty?!

Who's talking about dirt?

Dirty pooey backsides. No 1 reason for making sure they are properly clean every day Yuk to anyone who's said twice a week, disgusting!!

You'll dry their skin out bathing daily.

So OP, the time to feel truly smug is when they are teenagers and still bathing and showering as often as necessary without you bathing them.

You are wasting water, can I judge you for that.

'Dirty bums'?? Teach your Dc to wipe properly!!! My dc have perfectly clean 'bums' despite only bathing/showering 2-3 times per week! and yes I do know as they seem to spend a disproportionate amount of time running around naked

Needaninsight....that's exactly what I mean...if they are still in nappies, then they have been sitting in their own muck, even if you still change them straightaway. If they are older, I don't think they clean themselves as thoroughly as they should.

This is not to mention food on their hands/faces. Mud in the park. Pen/paint at school/nursery.

I find a flannel wash doesn't work that well.

I don't agree with picking your battles when bath time is concerned.

Oh look, I found a life. Here, you have it!

We bath every night but that's more as our ds needs a bedtime routine - not a great sleeper.

if he hated the bath and it was more of a battle I wouldn't do every night unless v mucky. Maybe 3 or four times for example

depends on the child and the parents - whatever works as long as dc are ok and not bathing every night is fine and better for some eg sensitive skin, not liking baths or fits in to lifestyle etc.

Oh, do piss off with the twice aweek is disgusting; you're coming across as more than a little OCD

mrsgeorge My child is still in nappies, but I imagine, when she gets to 5/6 etc (and at school) she will hardly be an expert at cleaning her backside!

Hence, why I would bath her daily and put clean pj's on before bed to allow her poor bits time to breathe and recover.

She might well have poo on her bum from 9am in the morning til bathtime (gross yes) but much better than all these posters who are saying that poo would still be there three days later! [boak]

Goady Fucker

Sitting in their own muck! Oh dear

Ds1 (2.6) has a bath every day, that's because he asks for one. He tends to have it about 5/5:30ish, sometimes earlier. It takes away some of the 5-7pm whine because he's tired but too early for bed. If he doesn't have a bath, I'm not bothered, he will get one another time. The amount of baths other people's children get isn't even on my radar

Meh, I think dirt is good for kids. I used to eat mud and I turned out just fine.

needaninsight ... You really do!!!!

I just shove the kids in once a week with the dogs.

Eww @ all those chemicals on your childs skin OP. Drying it out. You've bought into marketing hype by the likes of Proctor and Gambol and Johnsons haven't you

Why on earth would a baby have poo on their bum from 9am to bath time, have you never heard of wipes?!

Some people seem to think its a requirement to bath children everyday.

Ds gets bathed twice a week, and gets compliments on what beautiful skin and shiny hair he has.
He's 8 months, if excessive food wiping in hair has happened on a particular day, I might bath him. Or I might just give him a good wipe.

I never bath mine.